How should i feel

Alright i had a kicker thrown at me tonight...my father n law and his brother own land... the woods i hunt is only 30 acres if that...i have been hunting this all year so far i have scouted and put up tree stand and ect...well the kicker is that my father n laws brother is having a friend come down friday to hunt this woods he has no stands he hasnt did no scouting and i will be there hunting.. so i guess my question is shouldnt family come first rather than friends and should i be upset or not? They say friday and saturday is the best day to hunt for rut and sit in stand all day...so any input on this would be helpful......give me your advice

 

Its you father in laws land.

He can do whatever he wants with it.

 

Your father in law and his brother own the land........father in law lets you hunt and its his brothers choice to let his friend hunt.
Not much you can do about it. Except get use to it. The longer you hunt the more things like this will happen.

I think Id just hunt and be as polite to the other guy as you can

 

id be jacked but unfortunately there is nothing you can do about it so just go and sit in your stand all day and maybe hell get the deer moving past you.

 

X2 You are lucky your wife's father and uncle let you hunt their land.

 

ya true...but like i said its only 30 acres he has done no scouting he has no treestands in the woods...should i let him use mine i bought them i put them up i scouted it what you think?

 

my dad has hunted this other woods for a long time however me and dad started get into turkey hunting well the same week we had tags for the land owner son n law and dad were hunting that land the same week and the land owner told us we couldnt and that was fine and they put there family first instead of us and i think thats how it should be not friends co workers or anybody that my father n laws brother wants to let hunt. thats how i feel i guess i could be wrong but i just dont think its right...probably next year father n laws brother will have his buddy down and he will bring a friend i can just see where this will go

 

If you're asking what I would do I would not get stingy with the Tree stands Even though they are yours.

It really will make you look pompous If you bark orders at someone on land That does not belong to you.

My personal advice Is be nice to the guy... You never knowa... He may come in handy.

Plus 30 acres is very big To someone like me...lol so i don't see how two people cannot easily share that

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But your father in laws brother is part owner of the land. You could stand a chance of making him mad and causing problems with the father in law and his brother. I would think a case like that wouldnt be benificial to you.
The brother could say he doesnt want you there.......

I know it sucks but i think you are just going to have to make the best of it.

 

looking at the other guys view meaning the guy that will be coming down to hunt what do you think he should think....i know if i was this guy and someone told me that my brother son n law hunts out here i would totally avoid it and let him hunt it and find another place to hunt but guess not

 

I think you should look helpful to said hunter, obviously he is friend enough to them to hunt on there land as you are and it would show a great deal of gratatude and humility on your part to be helpful where you can.

 

i dont know i really dont agree .....my friend has land and he allows me to bowhunt out there but when gun hunting comes around he has his relatives and etc come up to hunt and i dont interupt them so whats the difference i always look at it as family first...and no i dont think i should let this guy use my stands i would take them all done before he sat in one i dont know the guy... im not doing this guys dirty work im not scouting for the guy and im not hanging stands for this guy this is all the work that he should have been done in july not rut

 

i do agree with what you say here

 

i guess i was just hoping that someone would agree with on this.. but guess not... im wrong i guess

 

i gotta say one more thing to get this off my chest.........what if the roles would change this guy scouted hung stands and etc and i go in there in sit in one of his stands im sure he wouldnt care right doubtful....

 

I dont think its so much everyone disagrees with you being upset. It would likely bother most hunters.

I think(atleast with me) the main thing is that its out of your control and be careful not to make any one mad and lose your place to hunt.

 

I think 30 acres is more than enough for two hunters to share for the weekend. You asked how the other guy should feel... Maybe this is his only chance to hunt. Maybe these are the only people he knows that have land. I'd venture to guess, that if the friend knows about you, he will respectful of you and yours. I doubt he'll even want to use your stands. He may just sit on the ground. You should probably call the guy, and be friendly with him. That way you two can discuss what the other is going to do. That way you're not stepping on each other's toes. Going out of your way to be nice and helpful to the owner's friend might just get you opportunities later on.

One this is for sure... complaining and acting entitled will do nothing but cause tension (and may even lose you your hunting grounds). Hunting is best done with friends. Maybe you can make one this weekend. Remember, no matter how much time, effort, or money (stands, etc) you've put into the property, it's still not yours. You're blessed to have ground to hunt, consider yourself lucky you don't have to fight 100 other hunters on public ground.

 

I'm am the type of guy that would go out of his way to help this guy out. You could end up with a good friend.

 

I agree with the others, you may gain a hunting buddy out of it. As for 2 people on 30 acres, we have 30 acres and at times there have been 4 people on it, and big bucks have fallen.

 

I hunt a very similar situation. There's a great guy who is nice enough to let my buddy and I hunt his land. The only condition is that when his other buddies come in to hunt, we pull our gear and vacate those areas until they either tag out or head for home.

We know this going in, so we target certain bucks for early-season tagouts, knowing full-well that if we carry a valid tag all the way into November, we will have no place to hunt for a couple weeks. We're 1000% comfortable with that. Being a landowner myself, I fully understand.

If you're smart, you'll spend next season scouting some alternative tracts, making backup plans and backup plans to your backup plans. Sure, it's going to be tough this year, as you seem to have put all of your eggs in one basket (this 30 ac. tract). Understandable frustration. Next year, though, there should be no surprises, and you should have some alternative rut stands ready to go, just in case.

You can plan your deer season until you're blue in the face, but the big bucks don't always cooperate.

As much as it pains you to hear it, at the end of the day, if your name's not on the deed, you really have no standing to complain or throw your weight around when the landowners decide to let another guy throw his hat into the ring. My advice to you is to treat the new guy with the utmost in respect, and do everything in your power to help make his hunt an enjoyable and successful one. You'll reap what you sow.

Come up with a backup plan, and you'll be ahead of the game next year.