Oh I wish I had my own property…

Just save-up your money and buy your hunting ground. Lots of GREAT bargins out and about these days. This is a buyer's market if you do your homework.

Usure it wasn't bucks fighting?

Are you upset because you don't like calling, or because you think he was calling too much, or because he wasn't very good at it? Just curious.

But the guys on internet/TV/outdoor magazines all say to do exactly that right now...surely you forgot all your bag of tricks!

Keep your eye out on the place next to me..

I understand but you might want to shorten your wait time as much as possible. You never know that where you are hunting now might change hands next season and you'll have lost that hunting spot. I just recently sold my Home/hunting acreage in Northwest Colorado which was around 800 acres to a group that hunted out there for several years. Reason being is I haven't hunted out there in a couple years as it was beginning to become a hassle to fly out there to hunt. I've taken 9 Elk and numerious Mule Deer out there throughout my ownership. I didn't really have to advertise that property as they came to me wanting to buy a hunting place with home so they would alway have a place to hunt in Colorado and not having to hunt on public lands. So in short if you are wanting that hunting property now is the time to buy as thing might change very soon.

Every property is goin to have its headaches, even if you own it. i.e. tresspassers, dogs, etc.
I lease land and am fed up as the owner rides his ATV around the property, makes major land changes, and cuts trees all during the season. Good luck though I guess with your own land at least you can take pride in knowing its yours and handling the headaches may come easier.

I am also experiencing this headache this year. Land owners 21 yr old son took up bowhunting the day before archery started. I didnt know he was interested until my son told me he was hunting and killed a button buck. I called the grandson to talk to him and find out he killed it out of my best early season stand AND he took a buddy who also killed a button out of another one of my stands. I wasnt too happy especially when he tells me how "experienced" his buddy is. I said if he that experienced did he ever mention its rude to hunt out of someone else stands without even asking? He said nope he just said how great it was there were already a bunch of stands there for us to hunt!.... Really?!
Lots and lots of other info I could share. Ill try to condense it lol
lets see... the buddy doesnt eat deer meat wants to know if I want all he kills, I specifically asked them to stay out of 2 stands buddy goes and hunts one of them anyway, neither wear saftey belts, the buddy is into one man drives during early archery season, grandson killed a 6 pt last weekend and says he knows grandpa will tag a big buck if one comes past and he kills it, grandson doesnt want any more deer meat either but wants to kill at least 2 more, buddy has another friend who offered $500 to landowner if he can come and hunt too, lol. I could go on and on.

Ive hunted this farm 20 years and it sure is frustrating for this to be going on. Ive tried to get the boy to hunt with me I even invited him to hunt on my 30 acres and told him he could kill any antlerless that he wanted. but the buddy keeps wanting to go back to the big farm. Ive tried to explain to him the farm is so good because I dont kill a lot of deer off of it and I dont go stomping thru all the bedding areas and every piece of woods on the place. He shakes his head yes but the next time I talk to him they are up there doing the same things.

Its bad enough the last 3-4 years of dealing with the amish on the west side that shoot at everything that moves and another guy on that side that doesnt know what private property means.

I feel your pain!