Need a little advice...(hunting related)

[BillfromFtWorth]

Very tough call, on one hand you could confront your grandmother about the situation and tell her you would prefer for them to come after deer season, but that could backfire on you and you could end up with rotating years, or you could just ask him to come after deer season but he might get mad and call the grandmother. I would be inclined to just let the kid come and get it out of his system assuming this would be a one time deal, but if they start calling every weekend wanting to come out there you have an issue.

[WoJo]

I would have called my grandma first and explained everything to her. Ask her if you had the right to make the final decision. If not then ask her to understand what all you've done on the land, and how you feel about them being out there shooting up the place.
Good Luck!

X2 and if you want to renew the relationship with him invite them to hunt.

[bboswell]

I would have called my grandma first and explained everything to her. Ask her if you had the right to make the final decision. If not then ask her to understand what all you've done on the land, and how you feel about them being out there shooting up the place.
Good Luck!

x3 and then gone down the list of places someone can go just walk around and shoot a .22.........like a rifle range or the National Forest for a couple of examples.

[Hollywood]

The KEY is the KEY. Postpone / postpone / procrastinate / procrastinate / procrastinate.

[tx_poptart]

Good luck bud....I don't think I'm in the position to tell ya how to handle family where you hunt...I got those problems myself....

All I can suggest is take care of it up front, don't give things a chance to be a problem....

One other suggestion is to show him some of your trail cam pics and invite him and his boy to come on out and take a deer...tell him to leave the .22 at home and break out the big guns...I'm sure you have some good spots you can set him up...

[Thorson]

explain the deer season....an offer to take them hunting with you or put them in stand together...

bout all you can do.

X2

[trophycalls]

I "LOVE" to deer hunt and I hate things to get in the way of it... but bottom line is "family is family" and 22 bullets, keys, and phone calls should not get in the way of keeping good relationships between kin.

Don't burden your grandmother. Talk it out between adults... but if it gets heated.. let him shoot the 22. Don't die on this hill!

[Tmag]

AN alternate site for the walking and shooting would be nice.
An invite to go hunting would be a good bargaining point.
Waiting on your next entry.

[Johnny]

Here is what I have in my hand right now...written by my grandmother.

I,_____________ Do hereby give (grant) all hunting rights on my property in

Madison County of which I am sole owner of consisting of approx. 80 acres to John C. Debowski Sr. and John C. Debowski Jr.


So I have the right to tell anyone in my family if they can or can't hunt on this piece of property. The last thing I want to do is throw that in my cousin's face but like someone here pointed out, we don't talk anyways so who cares?

Well our converstion went well but I really didn't care for how it ended. When I called him we shot the poop for a bit, then he asked me how the hunting has gone up there. This gave me a good long opening about all the hard work I have put into the place over the past few years, how we don't shoot little bucks, how we have been busting our tail putting up stands, clearing lanes by hand, the money I have spent on corn etc etc. I was giving him a good idea on how much time I have invested into this place.

He then said he wanted to take his little boy up there to walk around and shoot a .22 and was wondering if I was going to be up there this weekend? I said yes, me, my dad and uncle would be hunting up there this weekend and most all weekends unfortunately. I then asked him if he wanted me to keep a spot for him open to get on it next year to deer hunt and he said....uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yea, sure. I then said I would stick around Saturday for a bit if he wanted to come up with his boy to go to the Gun Emporium (shooting range) to shoot? He said he has one near his house and doesn't like them. He'd rather go shoot in the woods with him. Right after he said this he said he would figure something out and he ended the conversation quickly and had to go. It was obvious he was very disappointed and it made me feel kind of crappy but what I'm I supposed to do? I have slaved over this place to make it what it is. This is small acreage and them walking around on the acreage with a .22 and shooting up the place would definitely disrupt things.

Now what he will do is probably tell his mother what I said and she will go back to my grandma and ***** about it. I just don't want to get my grandmother into any of this. Hopefully this was the end of it. We'll see I guess.

[JimN]

how old is the little one? Most kids I know have more fun plinking cans from a bench.

[JTS]

you can hunt anytime.. should have let him do it.

[BillfromFtWorth]

Here is what I have in my hand right now...written by my grandmother.

I,_____________ Do hereby give (grant) all hunting rights on my property in

Madison County of which I am sole owner of consisting of approx. 80 acres to John C. Debowski Sr. and John C. Debowski Jr.


So I have the right to tell anyone in my family if they can or can't hunt on this piece of property. The last thing I want to do is throw that in my cousin's face but like someone here pointed out, we don't talk anyways so who cares?

Well our converstion went well but I really didn't care for how it ended. When I called him we shot the poop for a bit, then he asked me how the hunting has gone up there. This gave me a good long opening about all the hard work I have put into the place over the past few years, how we don't shoot little bucks, how we have been busting our tail putting up stands, clearing lanes by hand, the money I have spent on corn etc etc. I was giving him a good idea on how much time I have invested into this place.

He then said he wanted to take his little boy up there to walk around and shoot a .22 and was wondering if I was going to be up there this weekend? I said yes, me, my dad and uncle would be hunting up there this weekend and most all weekends unfortunately. I then asked him if he wanted me to keep a spot for him open to get on it next year to deer hunt and he said....uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yea, sure. I then said I would stick around Saturday for a bit if he wanted to come up with his boy to go to the Gun Emporium (shooting range) to shoot? He said he has one near his house and doesn't like them. He'd rather go shoot in the woods with him. Right after he said this he said he would figure something out and he ended the conversation quickly and had to go. It was obvious he was very disappointed and it made me feel kind of crappy but what I'm I supposed to do? I have slaved over this place to make it what it is. This is small acreage and them walking around on the acreage with a .22 and shooting up the place would definitely disrupt things.

Now what he will do is probably tell his mother what I said and she will go back to my grandma and ***** about it. I just don't want to get my grandmother into any of this. Hopefully this was the end of it. We'll see I guess.

Well... hum... hopefully this doesn't backfire on you, did you not offer for the kid to come out after deer season?

[Johnny]

Well... hum... hopefully this doesn't backfire on you, did you not offer for the kid to come out after deer season?

I most definitely was going to mention this but when I say he cut the conversation short that is exactly what happened. I never even flat out told him no, he can't. I told him we'd but up this weekend and he came out and said he doesn't want to be up there when people are hunting/shooting. That's when I offered to take them to the shooting range which is when he quickly had to let me go.

[Johnny]

you can hunt anytime.. should have let him do it.

Go somewhere, would ya?

[JTS]

cant come hunt with you this weekend.. heading to matagorda for cast n blast in about 2 hours...