This is true. Used to manage property and hunting leases fell under my purview. Rules were pretty simple but my goodness people suck. We didn't have to let the club know when we were going to be there or what we were doing but o always let them know ahead of time out of courtesy

We planted pines one year and cleared an old logging set and planted it too. This was in January. There was a hunter there and the hunter told the planters to please not plant there he wanted to plant a food plot there. Mexican asked me about it and I told him to plant it absolutely The next year the same hunter bushhogged it and planted a food plot (said the trees looked dead). He had to go

Same club, we are doing a prescribed burn that weekend and I call the club president to let him know. He was ecstatic about us burning We burn Monday I get a phone call from one of the hunters on how we burned up one of his stands and that we owe him $700. It was a box blind in the ground and it had sentimental value to him. Told him I was sorry he was going to have to take it up with the president because It's not my problem and that the lease actually details all this out. He was offshore that weekend and couldn't move his stand. not my problem.

Many many more just like that

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Posted by Ron Cheramie

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Posted on 8/1/17 at 4:35 pm to Ron Cheramie

All that said $7000 is a lot of money but I would bet it's that wording is in your lease somewhere

It is mighty close to hunting season so I doubt they are going to kick out a 30 person lease this close to hunting season if you haven't paid yet. Might be tough to fill that size of a lease in that timeframe

However if you have already paid dues for this year, there may be wording in the lease that says they can terminate the lease and not refund your money if a violation occurs

That's a tough one

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Posted by No Colors

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Posted on 8/1/17 at 6:37 pm to Ron Cheramie

quote:
Many many more just like that

I was managing a 20,000 acre block and one of our clubs fell out. It was about 5000 acres and included the camp house, barn, etc. So, I called up a friend of mine and gave him first option on leasing it. I told him I would give him 6 months to put a club together.

So he did. He works in a certain, small business group. And he asked several of the other members of this group to be in the club. He sold out memberships in less than a month. He ended up as the President of the club (which gave him some political pull in his business). Plus he got to hunt for free for putting it together.

Anyhow, their first season was a huge success. It was a better hunting experience for less money than they had ever had. Plus it was closer to where they lived. And they controlled everything. Perfect scenario.

Until Year 2 when I was riding around with him and I said: By the way, I am bringing a thinning crew in here next week to start thinning this 150 acre block over here.

And he freaked. I mean he started cussing me up and down. I honestly thought he was joking. It wasn't until I noticed his face was red and spit was flying that I realized he was serious.

My client paid $2200 an acre to own the place. And these guys paid $12 for the hunting rights. And you would think they were paying the fricking mortgage. I told him if he didn't like it to pound sand.

fricking deer hunters are the worst. It genuinely brings out the worst in normally rational people.

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