Is this in Mason? Typical Edwards plateau properties have too many deer for the habitat. East Texas, not so much. Besides bowhunters don't shoot as many deer as gun hunters. Just a fact.

On thing is certain. The potential impact of day hunting by tens, or even hundreds of hunters on single, low fence tracts where deer numbers are limited is something that cannot be ignored.

And it could work out better for you do to increased pressure. Hopefully they put restrictions and penalties. Regardless no matter what the increased pressure will push more deer to you

It makes you wonder if a law isn't needed to require those who sell any form of "day hunting" to high fence their property and treat it in the same manner as you would a fishing pond. It's up to the landowner to keep his pond stocked with enough fish to support his customer base. Just don't expect your neighbors, or the state-owned resource for that matter, to be forced to support you as well.

It makes you wonder if a law isn't needed to require those who sell any form of "day hunting" to high fence their property and treat it in the same manner as you would a fishing pond. It's up to the landowner to keep his pond stocked with enough fish to support his customer base. Just don't expect your neighbors, or the state-owned resource for that matter, to be forced to support you as well.

Better kick all hunting and fishing guides off public land then, chinadan

Actually, the inability to use food plots or feeders, combined with a fear of safety, makes public land hunting the best deal overall in my opinion. It's where I go when I want my own place to hunt.

Besides, who wants to waste time and effort actually "hunting" whitetails in Texas when corn and old office chairs are so abundant and easy to find.

AC and Heated pickup seats work better, plus by definition if you want to HUNT them just put the truck in drive and start cruising

Actually, the inability to use food plots or feeders, combined with a fear of safety, makes public land hunting the best deal overall in my opinion. It's where I go when I want my own place to hunt.

Besides, who wants to waste time and effort actually "hunting" whitetails in Texas when corn and old office chairs are so abundant and easy to find.

Should make your buddies place a sanctuary if he keeps it quiet... I wouldn't be worried

This is the solution to the fence hunting idiots we used to have on our lease in junction Tx. Every time a hunter on adjacent property would put a tripod or a box blind within 25 feet of our fence line we would blanket the area with predator urine up and down the fence line, hang metallic streamers in the trees OR if it was a box blind with windows on our fence line we would run old tennis privacy tarps for about 50 feet so they could not see or shoot anything on our ranch and the deer would avoid the area. Can't tell you how many times they called the game warden or jumped the fence to cut down the streamers and tarps sometimes I would just go sit on my four wheeler right on the fence with head lights on and engin running before day light! When they bitched at me I would say " ya know what? There's 5000 acres on your place go hunt your own deer and stop trying to poach ours. YES it is legal to hunt anywhere on your property BUT there are also common courtesy rules that apply when setting deer blinds & feeders.....the best thing that ever happened on our place was when one of my hunters found a box blind on the fence line in his hunting area. He immediately built a cheap 4x4 box blind painted it hot pink and set it directly across the fence from the other guy. The two blinds were like 5 feet apart! Jimmy would purposely go and sit in the blind on saturday mornings drinking coffee playing his iPod with an external speaker and smoking a cigar! When the other guy showed up he would just start loudly talking to him across the fence until the other guy snapped & left! It was hilarious! Funny thing was after about a week or two Jimmy would drive over there and his blind had been hacked to pieces and the other blind was gone!

Its not a for or against day lease argument. Its a landowners rights argument.

Some folks feel neighboring landowner rights should be held in check if they don't agree with their personal goals....others do not.

Pretty simple....

Seeing people argue on the side of the day lease is proof of one of two things... some of yal just have to be the devils advocate or you just really don't care for Dan.

I don't know a single person who wants a day lease next door to the hunting property. I sure know I do not.

Good luck Dan.