And what are you?

I am the same guy, you spend so much time pretending not to be!! I am pretty sure most on here has figured that out by now.

Sometimes it is alot easier to get permission than it is to retain permission.

Gifts and such are nice. But I am a land owner and own a good bit of property. I do allow a few guys to hunt on my place. What I like the most about the guys I allow to hunt is a couple of times a year they show up at my place in the summer and simply ask me if there are a few things I need done around the farm. Those are the guys I really like.

The ones that have a way of knowing when we are square baling instead of putting up rond bales. And the guy who knows where the fence apron and chain saw are at in the building. They just show up and take the 4-wheeler around the farm and cut branches off the fence, and take some staples out of the apron and repair the fence wherever it needs it.

These are the types of things a land owner really likes. Tom.

I know what you mean
I have 15 acres and all the land owners next to me have well over 500 acres a piece my close neighbor is four miles so during the year when cows get out, or there are people road hunting or poaching I give them a hand to help out in anyway I can I doesnt bother me to take a little time to help, and it has payed off for sure!!!!

On the other side of that, we haven't let anyone out to our land this year. Yet somehow in the last three weeks since I was out there last somebody cut the ropes on my tree stand. I'm not saying everyone is like that - I used to be the guy that had to get permission to hunt other people's land. But I've also noticed with where I'm at now there seems to be a lack of respect for fences. It makes it hard to tell other people yes.

Mine was by chance. The land owner was in the local fly shop when I was there, and was asking some question about what flies to use. The guys working in the shop were busy, so I helped him out. We hit it off, and ended up going fishing together. I never knew he owned land, because we always met at the fly shop to go fishing.

One day on the stream he asked me if I hunted. Of course I said yes, and that was the end of it. When hunting season came around he said to come over to his place, because he had something for me. I got there and he handed me a voucher. Those are much better, because they last for 5 months. Compared to just getting a regular licence for the unit and asking if you can hunt someones property. They only last the length of the season (9 days), and you have to go through the draw. There's no draw with a voucher. You just go to the DOW, and hand them the voucher, and they hand you a licence. It's an animal management licence, so that's why they give you 5 months instead of 9 days. They give you every chance possible to get the animal. Some land owners sell the vouchers for a lot of money.

I got a small piece of property to hunt from the help of a friend that is friends with the farmer. Only about 150 acres, but is 2 miles from my house, has deer, and turkey on it and I am the only one on it. Have cut up a few trees that have fallen into the fields to help him so he doesn't have to do it.

He asks me to shoot the doe for meat and don't shoot any bucks unless I intend to have it mounted. Shoot all the turkeys I want though.