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

Sound like you were a "noobie" to the club and the old timers are upset you shot "their" big buck. Not only is it hard to find a club to join, its even harder to find one not full of bitches.


And, imo, euro>shoulder mount

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this may sound wild - but our unwritten rule was only shoot something you want to put on the wall

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I typically hunt by this rule myself. I get invited up to Kansas every year and we have no set rules or anything on what we can shoot but I still believe in this. Ive seen some of the locals shoot 2 year old 7pts out of their truck so they dgaf. The farmer actually gets mad when you see deer and don’t kill them on his properties

Ill never be that guy to shame anyone on what they shoot though. Its just my personal preference. Ill shoot does all day for meat

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but our unwritten rule was only shoot something you want to put on the wall

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I only shoot something I want to put in my freezer first. Once that's done I then change to wall mounts.

You hunted that deer out of Waylon's creek stand didn't ya? No one is supposed to hunt the president's stand.

Sounds like some locals we grew up with, they had more land than they needed or wanted to pay for. They were always bringing in new members.

But if you killed a "good" deer, especially bigger than theirs you were gone.

Deer bring out the worst in some people.

Looks like Texas, where abouts is the lease? I live in south Texas and wouldn't mind going over there and shooting all of the turkeys out before the other members go in and do it.

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The number one reason listed was because I shot the largest deer ever on the property and didn't shoulder mount it. He also listed that I allowed my youngest son shoot a small doe. I wanted him to get his first deer, the season was winding down so he shot one smaller that I would have normally shot. Neither of these things were actual rules in the club written rules and just feelings.

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It’s none of their business what you do with your trophy

One of the best parts of deer camp is the experience for kids. You’re better off without them. They got upset you killed a deer your first year they’ve been hunting for years. As long as it was killed out of your spot or a spot you had permission to hunt that day then you did nothing wrong.

Our camp is simple: show up to work days and help. If you help others with their plots you can hunt them as long as you ask.

Shoot legal deer

Don’t ride your ATV around the property before 10 am or after 2 pm during the season except when going to and from your stand

Keep the camp a family friendly atmosphere for the kids

Thank god for private property

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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.

You better get a refund