I got our lease 5 years ago. I could only get 3 of my buddies to get on the lease with me. Another guy who had came down with one of my buddys to hunt said he would like to get on the lease with us, So we figured if we had 6 guys it would cost 500 each, so he brought 2 of his buddys in on the lease. 150 acres. My buddys stayed at my house with me and the other 3 parked a camper at my house. My wife cooked enough to feed everyone. they used the shower and crapper. we would all hang out in my garage. Long story short I told them they had to pay $15 bucks a day to stay. They thought that was to much and found a 75 acre piece of property not far away. The 3 of them bought the property and picked up 75 acres next door to hunt also. They have a very nice 150 acres to hunt.
2 years ago I picked up another 100 acres that boarderd our exsisting lease. It is mostly crp but has some nice thickets and a few patches of hardwoods. So now we have 250 acres. We have what I call our core area, witch is 160 acres. then we have a 40 across the street and 50 down the road. All but the 50 have corn or beans standing that the farmer plants for us.
The problem is that these guys will only hunt a few of the stands we have in our core area, The completely burn them out. They just don't hunt smart. wont even go to the 40 or 50 acre spots. We have 28 stands and blinds and they hunt the best spots all the time. One of them has hunted almost every day in the last 40 days. another hunts every weekend and sometimes long weekends.
My first hunt there this year was oct. 31st. I stayed there with my 2 buddys and we hunted till the morning of the 8th. We were seeing all kinds of deer when we left. I went back down on the 19th. Only seen one good doe and she was being chased by a nice buck. never seen another good doe or buck. All of the other 3 guys are bitching that the other got busted in the stand and ruined it. And that were putting to much hunting preasure on the property.
They rarely hunt there 150 until our lease is ruined. then they will hunt there own place more often. leaving us with a preasured deer herd.
So to make things better for us 3 guys i'm thinking that I'm not gonna let the other 3 one the 100 acre lease next year. that way we would have a less preasured place to hunt like they do. There not gonna be happy about it but o well there my leases. And im sick of them hunting it to death. Do you guys think this is wrong of me to do this? Forgot to mention that 2 of them cry and wine about everything. If they cant shoot a deer from a stand or blind in every direction they wanna cut the woods down. they wont sit in a 3 window blind cause they cant see behind them. They insist on moving stands and blinds and then never hunt them. Have shot 3 bucks below our 125" minimum. Take the whole family out hunting in our bigger blinds with them. And always bitch about paying there share for whatever it may be. making it a pain in the azz for me. never have there lease money on time. And all have good jobs.
I'm sorry about the rant and the poorly written story. But I'd be happy to have some imput on what you guys think. Also, I do a whole lot more on the lease then any of them guys. I also help out the farmer and bring him fresh walleye a few times a year. Jerky, sausage. Even supplied him with his seed beans for next spring. Traded for some ear corn. at a much reduced rate.
2 years ago I picked up another 100 acres that boarderd our exsisting lease. It is mostly crp but has some nice thickets and a few patches of hardwoods. So now we have 250 acres. We have what I call our core area, witch is 160 acres. then we have a 40 across the street and 50 down the road. All but the 50 have corn or beans standing that the farmer plants for us.
The problem is that these guys will only hunt a few of the stands we have in our core area, The completely burn them out. They just don't hunt smart. wont even go to the 40 or 50 acre spots. We have 28 stands and blinds and they hunt the best spots all the time. One of them has hunted almost every day in the last 40 days. another hunts every weekend and sometimes long weekends.
My first hunt there this year was oct. 31st. I stayed there with my 2 buddys and we hunted till the morning of the 8th. We were seeing all kinds of deer when we left. I went back down on the 19th. Only seen one good doe and she was being chased by a nice buck. never seen another good doe or buck. All of the other 3 guys are bitching that the other got busted in the stand and ruined it. And that were putting to much hunting preasure on the property.
They rarely hunt there 150 until our lease is ruined. then they will hunt there own place more often. leaving us with a preasured deer herd.
So to make things better for us 3 guys i'm thinking that I'm not gonna let the other 3 one the 100 acre lease next year. that way we would have a less preasured place to hunt like they do. There not gonna be happy about it but o well there my leases. And im sick of them hunting it to death. Do you guys think this is wrong of me to do this? Forgot to mention that 2 of them cry and wine about everything. If they cant shoot a deer from a stand or blind in every direction they wanna cut the woods down. they wont sit in a 3 window blind cause they cant see behind them. They insist on moving stands and blinds and then never hunt them. Have shot 3 bucks below our 125" minimum. Take the whole family out hunting in our bigger blinds with them. And always bitch about paying there share for whatever it may be. making it a pain in the azz for me. never have there lease money on time. And all have good jobs.
I'm sorry about the rant and the poorly written story. But I'd be happy to have some imput on what you guys think. Also, I do a whole lot more on the lease then any of them guys. I also help out the farmer and bring him fresh walleye a few times a year. Jerky, sausage. Even supplied him with his seed beans for next spring. Traded for some ear corn. at a much reduced rate.