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    My lease is being MINED!

    Like I wasn't having a bad enough week. I got a call last night from one of the other members. It seems the land owner has decided to mine the iron ore. We just went through having 500 acres clear cut and now this. I guess they were just getting the trees out of the way. When the dozers showed up last week we assumed it was to disk the ground before replanting pines. Thats not the case at all. They are taking a very large hill and soon it will be a lake.
    This is the last straw for me. I'm looking for a new lease. I've been on this place for 3 years and have yet to see a mature buck besides on camera at night. In that 3 years I have killed 2 does and a button buck. Each of the 3 years I have been there there has been clear cutting going on during the season. We thought this year we would get a break since they were done cutting. Boy were we wrong.
    If anyone hears of any openings and would think about giving me a chance, please let me know. I would prefer something within 3 hours of Canton.

    #2
    When it rains it pours


    Sorry for your run of bad luck

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      #3
      Moving you up on the list....is someone drops after season I will let ya know.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Death from Above View Post
        Moving you up on the list....is someone drops after season I will let ya know.
        Thank you!

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          #5
          Don't know of anything but good luck. You'll find something soon. Do you get to finish out the season? Hope so...

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            #6
            Sorry to hear this, dealt with it years ago in Magnolia and it got real bad when they decided to load trucks at 7:30 am on Saturday morning.

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              #7
              Originally posted by WCB View Post
              Don't know of anything but good luck. You'll find something soon. Do you get to finish out the season? Hope so...
              Yeah Mike, I can and will finish the season. In the short term it may help me. My stands are at least 1/4 mile from the strip mine area so it may push deer to me. But on this place the crowding and constant cutting and now mining are just too much.
              I talked it over with my wife, the lovely and talented Carie, last night. If we don't find something new we will stay put. The camper I have out there isn't very mobile. The lease is 5 miles from the dam at Lake O' the Pines. So I could bring my boat or canoe out and just hunt the corps land out there in a worst case scenario.
              Last edited by Txjourneyman; 11-11-2010, 07:05 AM.

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                #8
                I feel your pain brother! Got on a new place this year. Got everything set up and pumped about the new place and sets. Pull thru the gate on Sept 19 and found 400 acres of freshly dozed pasture! The landowner decided that was a good time for pasture maintenance I had visions from that movie of hurling arrows at the mechanical "beasts".

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                  #9
                  That is terrible. Greg, I hope you can find you a better place.

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