Recently I made a post asking about stand position and where to hunt on. The land next to the land I have access to was just auctioned off and I just found out who bought it today. Larry F-ing Bird! To disclaimer my distaste... this land was in my girlfriends family forever until a coal company forced them to sell it to them. After 5 years or so they decide to auction it off and her family was going to try to buy it back until Mr. Bird decides to buy it. God only knows what he is going to do with the land. (probably try and put up a casino like French Lick (jk)) First he destroys my pacers and now he is going to destroy my hunting land!

How can you talk that way of the greatest basketball player of all time? It is blasphemous to speak such horrible things! Shame on you.

It just kills me that he would come in and buy up a bunch of farmland that local farmers (not just my girlfriend's family) were trying to get. Its not like you can outbid someone with his financial backing. I liked Larry until he
a) played for my least favorite sports city (Boston)
b) ran the pacers into the ground
c) possibly ruined one of my better looking hunting areas

Maybe he is a big deer hunter and he is going to fill it with thick rich plots of deer food. Then you can become buds and hunt together with him and talk hoops.
Or at the very least you can hunt the edge of the property and pick off some of his bucks.
Either way, best of luck.

Erik

Challenge him to a free throw match for the rights to hunt the property.

Free throws might not work out too well for you, but how about a vertical leap contest?

I AM ALSO FROM INDIANA,I LIVE IN COLUMBUS.LARRY WAS AN AWESOME PLAYER AND COACH BUT HIS BUILDING SKILLS ARE TERRIBLE.HE BOUGHT ABOUT 350 ACRES IN BROWN COUNTY,HE CALLS IT EAGLE CREEK RANCH.IT LOOKS PRIMETIME FOR DEER AND TURKEY.HOW MUCH PROPERTY DID HE BUY?I ALSO DRIVE BY TONY STEWARTS PROPERTY AND I SEE DEER EVERYTIME,IT MUST BE NICE TO BUY WHAT YOU WANT.LARRY WILL PROBABLY TRY AND PUT SOME BUISNESS ON IT,THAT SUCKS.

But you see, Larry Bird is an Indiana farm boy too. Are you saying people shouldn't be allowed to buy back into their roots. And as far as the coal mine company forcing your girls parents to sell???? You mean they made them an offer and they took it.

Here is the big kicker I found out. The guy he bought all this land with (I think his last name is Gibson) owns a lot of the big trash dumps. I sure hope that isn't their intention. As far as them being forced to sell their land... it was 20-30 years ago and they were forced to sell the land. The coal company pretty much ran everything and owned everyone important. We all know that those who make all the money also make all the rules.