re: I was asked to leave the hunting club for not violating any rules

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Mississippi, The club leases for everything but turkey

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Well that figures. I had the same damn thing happen to me about 12 years ago. I moved to MS after graduating college and joined a lease out there. I was the only member from out of state and they almost didn't let me join because I was from Louisiana, told me that straight to my face. Basically, if anything happened at the camp I was the first person to be blamed and questioned. I was never late on my dues, we had 4 work weekends and if you didn't make at least 2 you have to pay a 250 dollar fine, I would make all of them and more. We were hit by a horrific tornado that dropped trees on half of the camp houses, didn't hit my camper, I went up 3 weekends in a row and helped cut trees off of camp houses and clear trails of knocked down trees. It was illegal to hunt over corn at that time in MS and they found where some corn was being poured out on the ground, blamed me for it. You could only shoot in the designated area around the camp house and had to let other camp members know before doing so. They found a bunch of empty shotgun shells and skeet near the camp ground where you weren't supposed to shoot, I got blamed for it. A window unit was stolen out of one of the trailers, I got blamed for it. We had a sign in sheet that we would put time and date and location and it was first come first serve, well I brought my 6 year old hunting with me so we decided to go hunt the closest box stand and no one had signed it out, so we went. Got back to camp and was confronted by a member who's niece, a non paying member, was supposed to hunt that stand that afternoon. I finally had enough when I was accused of ruining another members turkey hunt. We had 1500 acres and he was on the south side of the property and had signed out already, so me and my son went to furthest north end of the property to go out of our way to not disturb him, but got accused of ruining his hunt. Finally after hunting there for 4 years at one of our Spring meetings I stood up and told everyone if they had a personal problem with me to be man enough to come and talk to me and quit blaming me for everything. No one said a word, I had already paid so finished out that hunting season and left the lease. I will never join another lease unless it's just with family.