Just got done texting w my taxidermy, he’s saying he’s gonna have to be a Walmart greeter if it keeps going like this lol. Same story every year, then at the end of the season he has 300 racks hanging. He does good work and there is a bonus.... he lives across the road from my property and keeps an eye out for me. Win/win.
He used to raise deer to sell, I told him he could let a couple does free range on my property but put bright collars on them as they will be on the no kill list lol. It was always a joke. Good thing about him having deer from Midwest is they come into estrous in November. Two years ago ups guy said there were two big bucks in his yard. I have 15 acres next to the road with a big bayou that splits it off from the majority of my property. I made a deal with him cause he wanted to fence off 2-3 acres to put his deer in. Deal was he could do it and would give me a free shoulder mount, European mount and small game mount a year for using said acreage. So he went to cut lanes for fence but it’s was so nasty it pulled the fuel lines and or radiator hose off. So that didn’t happen but he honored the agreement that year. I had a buck mounted and a hide soft tanned. He didn’t want to charge me but I insisted on paying since he wasn’t actually using the acreage. I think he agreed to letting me pay cost for mounting. I threw in a couple hundred bucks also. He has sold all his deer and said no more as they always battling with ehd. Deer from different climates don’t do well down here.
So he says to me, I’m getting out of my lease after this year and wanted to bring two stands to hunt the 15 acres across the street. I never hunt it but is also part of my sanctuary. I’m not sure if I should let him do it. I only have a total of 179 acres. 45 never get hunted as I haven’t felt the need to hunt it and decided it’s best for a sanctuary. The middle of the rest of my property is a no go zone also. We hunt the edges where the turn rows were as I really can’t manipulate anything other than the said turn rows as the property is in a federal program CRP. Any suggestions?
Oh he has also pulled me out a couple times from being stuck where I park. My f250 doesn’t do well in gumbo mud.
Last year was my best year, sent him two shoulder mounts, to skull mounts and a hide to tan.