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There are some real greedy people in the world.

dblmainbeam

dblmainbeam

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I have been hunting a small piece of ground for 8 years. There is maybe 50- acres with 3 or 4 acres of trees. The city owns it.
Every year the guy across the river spends most evenings trying to scare deer from me. Driving his 4 wheeler up and down the river, running his chainsaw, trapping, banging tools around in his pickup he went as far as building a 3 sided shed over the top of a main trail that crossed the river. He has at least 700 acres of his own ground and he has to mess with me. I guess I might shot one of "HIS" deer!!

Last year I started talking to him and thought we were on good terms. I told him I had only shot few deer and he acted like he wasn't going to bother me anymore. I told him I'm the onlyone who hunts it and I'm sure he knew that. He didn't bother me once last year.

Anyway the people who run the airport called me today to let me know there building a overflow pond next to a piece of the nieghbors ground. They have to tear out an access road to this guys land. He worked out a deal with the city attorney to get exclusive bow hunting rights to the airport ground. He got it to so I get to get my stands this weekend.

There are some big deer that run this river. I never hunted a fence line because I didn't think that it was very nice. I WILL BE NOW! I dont care if I have to pay someone I will hunt his fencelines somewhere.

At first I was sick to my stomach and now I see red. What a PRICK!
 
Re: There are some real greedy people in the world

Hey Adam, I might have some spots for you to try if you want. Give me a call. I am sure you could get my number from Doug. I'll be home this weekend for early goose so you could give me a call anytime and I could probably show you some spots if you would like.
 
Re: There are some real greedy people in the world

Feel your pain DBL. Don't know how a city attourney can deal with rights like that without the approval of the city council.
 
Re: There are some real greedy people in the world

He probably just told them this is what we have to do.

Ill probably be cooled off in a few days. I do intend to talk to the attorney and ask him how this happened. It makes no sense. The reason they let me hunt was to help keep deer off the runway. He only wants the rights so no one can hunt.
 
Re: There are some real greedy people in the world

Find yourself a Iowa Sportsman's Atlas and start looking for some good public ground in your area. It sucks, but it happens to all of us from time to time.......
 
Re: There are some real greedy people in the world

I have one. The public ground up here is small and overhunted. I have hunted them alot. I'm just pissed because I lost my best spot.
 
Re: There are some real greedy people in the world

There are some people in this world that they are not happy unless some else isn't. What a pastard.
 
You would think if it's owned by the government, they could not give exclusive permission to just one person unless it was a contract to remove the deer. At that point, I would also think the hunter or person removing the deer would have to obtain a special license to harvest those deer?
(That's like DesMoines telling my family that we have exclusive rights to hunt water works if they could build a bike path through our back yard) I would raise hell if I were you.
 
Have experienced similar. It's times like these you find out who your friends are...and AREN'T. My advice is don't waste time and energy on the jerk...just ignore him and find another spot.

NWBuck
 
We had to pull a couple well placed stands abutting a State Park, 2 yrs back because hunting rights changed hands for various reasons... I still miss the area...saw LOTS of deer every time we hunted it
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Well if they do start letting people back in there serveral others might want to hunt it now as well.
 
Re: There are some real greedy people in the world

I know how you feel. Lost my favortie spot in my home state this year as well. Its a pretty crappy feeling.
 
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