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Post by MuzzleLoader on Oct 24, 2017 6:21:13 GMT -5
Unless you own your hunting property your never guaranteed anything when it comes to permission. There were 4 times in my life that I thought I would be hunting a certain property forever only to loose them all. If hunting is in your genes then I can't stress to you enough start now finding and securing a good piece of property. Family can turn on ya once money is involved. Especially if they don’t hunt or have any need for a large piece of property.
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Post by jackryan on Oct 24, 2017 10:20:31 GMT -5
I don't get all this entitlement people feel to hunt land another family member owns. When the taxes were due did you feel obligated to pitch in on that? When someone was working 7 days a week to buy that land did you pass a pay check their way?
If someone lets you hunt THEIR land, THANK THEM, and count your lucky stars. Don't mean you are entitled to it next year, next season or even tomorrow. Including "family".
If you want say so over some ground, let YOU kids go with out shoes and buy an acre next year. Cancel that cable TV, drive an old car, skip the kids softball practice and go to work instead.
That's where the money to buy land comes from.
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Post by benj on Oct 24, 2017 15:41:22 GMT -5
I don't get all this entitlement people feel to hunt land another family member owns. When the taxes were due did you feel obligated to pitch in on that? When someone was working 7 days a week to buy that land did you pass a pay check their way? If someone lets you hunt THEIR land, THANK THEM, and count your lucky stars. Don't mean you are entitled to it next year, next season or even tomorrow. Including "family". If you want say so over some ground, let YOU kids go with out shoes and buy an acre next year. Cancel that cable TV, drive an old car, skip the kids softball practice and go to work instead. That's where the money to buy land comes from. Doesn't really seem like "entitlement", more like someone thought they had a strong shared interest, and found out it wasn't as strong for the other family member once some attractive sum of money became available. Tell us about the land you hunt and how you got it Jack.
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Post by beermaker on Oct 24, 2017 16:37:49 GMT -5
I don't get all this entitlement people feel to hunt land another family member owns. When the taxes were due did you feel obligated to pitch in on that? When someone was working 7 days a week to buy that land did you pass a pay check their way? If someone lets you hunt THEIR land, THANK THEM, and count your lucky stars. Don't mean you are entitled to it next year, next season or even tomorrow. Including "family". If you want say so over some ground, let YOU kids go with out shoes and buy an acre next year. Cancel that cable TV, drive an old car, skip the kids softball practice and go to work instead. That's where the money to buy land comes from. Although I don't fell obligated to explain my situation, I do have time to kill as I sit in my 2015 truck on the way home from working 10 hrs. to pick up my daughter (new shoes, of course) from basketball practice. I suspect I'll watch FOX news while I make dinner at home, which is on two acres. My father's mother had about 100 acres that was to be left to the grandkids. His greedy brother somehow got grandma to will the place to him about a month before her death. Did I work there and put in sweat equity? No, but my father and his other brother sure as hell did. Did I pay taxes? No, but I am more than capable of it now. Believe me, it negatively affected my dad much more than it upsets me. My mother's parents had a over 100 acres. An uncle-in-law bought it from them and sold it not even a year later for a healthy profit. Legal? Yes. Moral? No. My grandparents were too old and not of sound mind when the transaction took place. The land was not offered for sale to any of the other family members. Just sold to him. There were plenty of grandkids, me included, that had the wherewithal and interest to buy the farm at a better price. Thanksgiving dinner hasn't tasted the same since.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Oct 24, 2017 17:24:15 GMT -5
I don't get all this entitlement people feel to hunt land another family member owns. When the taxes were due did you feel obligated to pitch in on that? When someone was working 7 days a week to buy that land did you pass a pay check their way? If someone lets you hunt THEIR land, THANK THEM, and count your lucky stars. Don't mean you are entitled to it next year, next season or even tomorrow. Including "family". If you want say so over some ground, let YOU kids go with out shoes and buy an acre next year. Cancel that cable TV, drive an old car, skip the kids softball practice and go to work instead. That's where the money to buy land comes from. Although I don't fell obligated to explain my situation, I do have time to kill as I sit in my 2015 truck on the way home from working 10 hrs. to pick up my daughter (new shoes, of course) from basketball practice. I suspect I'll watch FOX news while I make dinner at home, which is on two acres. My father's mother had about 100 acres that was to be left to the grandkids. His greedy brother somehow got grandma to will the place to him about a month before her death. Did I work there and put in sweat equity? No, but my father and his other brother sure as hell did. Did I pay taxes? No, but I am more than capable of it now. Believe me, it negatively affected my dad much more than it upsets me. My mother's parents had a over 100 acres. An uncle-in-law bought it from them and sold it not even a year later for a healthy profit. Legal? Yes. Moral? No. My grandparents were too old and not of sound mind when the transaction took place. The land was not offered for sale to any of the other family members. Just sold to him. There were plenty of grandkids, me included, that had the wherewithal and interest to buy the farm at a better price. Thanksgiving dinner hasn't tasted the same since. Similar story in my family. It's a shame people do stuff like that.
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Post by freedomhunter on Oct 24, 2017 17:56:08 GMT -5
I have 5 areas to hunt and all owners are clients that I have treated really well and consider friends. It changes every year, though. I share 3 of them with other hunters. My best spot is just me. The next best spot could soon be just mine, poor guy's family is entitled and mistreats him and he is done with them. I am good to him=Me winning.
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Post by subzero350 on Oct 24, 2017 18:48:40 GMT -5
I don't get all this entitlement people feel to hunt land another family member owns. When the taxes were due did you feel obligated to pitch in on that? When someone was working 7 days a week to buy that land did you pass a pay check their way? If someone lets you hunt THEIR land, THANK THEM, and count your lucky stars. Don't mean you are entitled to it next year, next season or even tomorrow. Including "family". If you want say so over some ground, let YOU kids go with out shoes and buy an acre next year. Cancel that cable TV, drive an old car, skip the kids softball practice and go to work instead. That's where the money to buy land comes from. Although I don't fell obligated to explain my situation, I do have time to kill as I sit in my 2015 truck on the way home from working 10 hrs. to pick up my daughter (new shoes, of course) from basketball practice. I suspect I'll watch FOX news while I make dinner at home, which is on two acres. My father's mother had about 100 acres that was to be left to the grandkids. His greedy brother somehow got grandma to will the place to him about a month before her death. Did I work there and put in sweat equity? No, but my father and his other brother sure as hell did. Did I pay taxes? No, but I am more than capable of it now. Believe me, it negatively affected my dad much more than it upsets me. My mother's parents had a over 100 acres. An uncle-in-law bought it from them and sold it not even a year later for a healthy profit. Legal? Yes. Moral? No. My grandparents were too old and not of sound mind when the transaction took place. The land was not offered for sale to any of the other family members. Just sold to him. There were plenty of grandkids, me included, that had the wherewithal and interest to buy the farm at a better price. Thanksgiving dinner hasn't tasted the same since. That is certainly unfortunate. No one in my family ever had big money or lots of land. Most of the posts in this thread really have me feeling like the poor cousin. But I'm thankful for what I have access to hunt on, even if it isn't that big.
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Post by monkeyarms13 on Oct 25, 2017 6:07:18 GMT -5
I have 3 spots.
1: 350 acres that is shared with my brother-in-law. We rarely hunt it because my other spots are closer, but it’s probably our best hunting ground and we should utilize it more. (1 hour away)
2: 20 acres that is my uncles property. I’m the only one that hunts it. (30 minutes away)
3: 100 acres that I got by chance. A friend happened to be talking about how her mom is tired of the deer eating her garden and flowers around the house. I jokingly told her mom one day that I’d take care of those pesky deer for her. Being that this family is extremely liberal and large proponents of gun control I said it jokingly. Her mom replied, “please come kill all the d*** deer!” I shot a deer on her property my first time out and have killed deer every year since. Only 10 minutes from my house, too.
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