Yeah i never expected this from this man. He and his family have been friends of our family for almost 30 years. He comes to some of our family functions and all, his wife sees and talks with my mom at my moms work pretty regularly. I have hunted there for 10 years and asking him every year to hunt was more of a formality. I'm still a little stunned honestly. I took down all of my stand yesterday, they are sitting in my shed. If i don't find something soon i may be sitting out my first deer season since i was 11 years old.

I don't really have any promising connections. There is an outfitter up here that owns 14,000 acres that offers memberships to hunt whenever you want, at this point i may be forced into something like that just to get through this season until i find something else. I figure this late in the game, i'm probably going to have to spend money to hunt, be it on a lease or otherwise. I may try knocking on doors but i'm not holding out much hope that it will get me anywhere. That is a tough sell to begin with and usually the ones who tell ya yes are the ones who told the entire county yes as well.