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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5351464" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>Unless your family gives you exclusive rights, meaning nobody but you can hunt it, then I would not invest the money & effort enhancing it. Your work will be taken advantage of by any hunter with permission to do so. And you can't really blame anybody for doing so. I agree with the others above. </p><p></p><p>I put in a couple small plots and a water hole on my dad's place. I figured it would possibly make things a little easier for him as he's in his mid 70's and finding it harder to hike the big hills. It worked out way better than I imagined. The place was crawling with bruisers in short time and my father, brother, and myself all killed big bucks on that property that year. The next year, however, the place was now crawling with all my dad's church buddies. Everybody was asking him to come hunt and dad being dad, he didn't say no. They indiscriminately killed any deer that moved through the place, even fork bucks. Now the property is worse than it was before I added the enhancements. Deer avoid the place. Dad doesn't complain but he recognizes the situation. Rather than tell everybody they can no longer hunt, he decided he was getting too old & worn out to continue hunting so he thinks maybe he's done. It demoralized him. Went from the highest of highs with him and his two sons having a banner year, to the place being destroyed by something for nothings. I did it for dad and it's his so he can do anything he wants with it, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't sting a bit that he allowed folks to take advantage of my efforts & money. I did it for him, not the community. </p><p></p><p>My brother and I each have our own properties that we manage and hunt together, but we don't allow other hunters without a specific invite. Even then it's not an open invitation, but rather a short window when the guest can hunt with one of us. Nobody enters the properties at their own whim or while one of is not there accompanying them. We spend a lot of money, time, and effort grooming the properties for deer hunting. There's not much pressure on the deer. It's dang good hunting. But it wouldn't take but one season for it to become a deer desert if we openly let people hunt. </p><p></p><p>I know the temptation is strong for you to enhance the hunting, but I caution you to just save that money & time to buy your own piece of ground. Work some overtime or take on some extra work as you can, whatever it takes to save up & buy a property. It doesn't take as long as you might think, as long as you keep your eyes on the goal. Only then when it's yours and yours alone are you safe to manage it without threat of others taking advantage of it. And I promise you, if you build a nice hunting property, people will want to be there. You'll be making all kinds of new friends. Everybody wants to chummy up with the guy who owns a property that produces big bucks, but not everybody wants to do what it takes to have it for themselves. If you're willing to spend what money you have and do the work to manage your family's land, then you're driven enough to focus that energy into having your own land. I promise it will be way more rewarding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5351464, member: 20583"] Unless your family gives you exclusive rights, meaning nobody but you can hunt it, then I would not invest the money & effort enhancing it. Your work will be taken advantage of by any hunter with permission to do so. And you can't really blame anybody for doing so. I agree with the others above. I put in a couple small plots and a water hole on my dad's place. I figured it would possibly make things a little easier for him as he's in his mid 70's and finding it harder to hike the big hills. It worked out way better than I imagined. The place was crawling with bruisers in short time and my father, brother, and myself all killed big bucks on that property that year. The next year, however, the place was now crawling with all my dad's church buddies. Everybody was asking him to come hunt and dad being dad, he didn't say no. They indiscriminately killed any deer that moved through the place, even fork bucks. Now the property is worse than it was before I added the enhancements. Deer avoid the place. Dad doesn't complain but he recognizes the situation. Rather than tell everybody they can no longer hunt, he decided he was getting too old & worn out to continue hunting so he thinks maybe he's done. It demoralized him. Went from the highest of highs with him and his two sons having a banner year, to the place being destroyed by something for nothings. I did it for dad and it's his so he can do anything he wants with it, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't sting a bit that he allowed folks to take advantage of my efforts & money. I did it for him, not the community. My brother and I each have our own properties that we manage and hunt together, but we don't allow other hunters without a specific invite. Even then it's not an open invitation, but rather a short window when the guest can hunt with one of us. Nobody enters the properties at their own whim or while one of is not there accompanying them. We spend a lot of money, time, and effort grooming the properties for deer hunting. There's not much pressure on the deer. It's dang good hunting. But it wouldn't take but one season for it to become a deer desert if we openly let people hunt. I know the temptation is strong for you to enhance the hunting, but I caution you to just save that money & time to buy your own piece of ground. Work some overtime or take on some extra work as you can, whatever it takes to save up & buy a property. It doesn't take as long as you might think, as long as you keep your eyes on the goal. Only then when it's yours and yours alone are you safe to manage it without threat of others taking advantage of it. And I promise you, if you build a nice hunting property, people will want to be there. You'll be making all kinds of new friends. Everybody wants to chummy up with the guy who owns a property that produces big bucks, but not everybody wants to do what it takes to have it for themselves. If you're willing to spend what money you have and do the work to manage your family's land, then you're driven enough to focus that energy into having your own land. I promise it will be way more rewarding. [/QUOTE]
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