Community Stands....tell me how yours is managed

[manwitaplan]

The key to have the community stands work is a sharing the expense and labor that goes into keeping multiple stands running. Like you stated if the ranch has a person on payroll to keep feeders full and wasps out of your blinds great!

If not you then have to make sure each person chips in on the feed bill AND puts in their fair share of weekends filling feeders and checking blinds.

You will inevitably always end up with someone who has more money than time or more time than money and managing how that hurts other peoples feelings is paramount to everyone feeling that the community blinds are fair.

This is the key in my opinion. Shared work is the only way. We were community for 4 years and went back to individual spots this year. The community idea is cool if all members work. 7 out of 13 would fill feeders, clear lanes, mow, etc etc it got real old quick.


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[Plan B]

Each member on our lease gets 2 spots that they can set up however they want and the only way someone else hunts their stand is if they give them permission.

We also have 4-5 community stands that anyone can hunt. This allows you several new places to hunt if you get burned out on your two spots.

This method has worked well for us. I am pretty particular about having the right wind when I hunt my spots. Some guys will have a spot ruined after a few hunts because the wind is all wrong.

[hooligan]

We are 100 percent community. Each member has 1 stand though they can Trump any member out of if they are at the ranch. If they're not present their stand is open.

This is how ours is. Lease fees include corn and protein so all feeders are always full. The work is usually just divided up by a couple of us who like it and one or two of the members pay another’s college age son to do work on pens and fill feeders for them.

If something breaks or is need of repair people just do it or if it’s an expensive item the lease manager lets everyone know what the split is. Hasn’t been an issue at all.

[ByronB]

I was on a place for 7-8 years. We had 12 Community Blinds with feeders and four Handfeed stands. We had “work weekends” in the off-season and everyone paid the same amount for corn, protein, feeder supplies, etc. We had good tripods, ladder stands, ground blinds and feeders. We had a board with the stand sites listed. First-come first served as people drove in to camp and put their name next to a stand site. Also, this helped the rancher who lived on site. They would know where the hunter or hunters were when they were in the feild. The great thing about this setup was during the week hardly anyone was hunting. Where I hunt now I get two setups. I can ask others if I can hunt their stand. You need a good group to do the community stand setup. The larger the ranch the better. I do think that if a person has their own spots to hunt they will feed more. With community stands all of the feeders go off at the same times, same spin time, and no other feed is thrown out.......typically. My feed pen sometimes looks like a Luby’s buffet when I am hunting. Chaffhaye, sweet feed, protein, mineral block, alfalfa hay, and corn.

[ByronB]

Each member on our lease gets 2 spots that they can set up however they want and the only way someone else hunts their stand is if they give them permission.

We also have 4-5 community stands that anyone can hunt. This allows you several new places to hunt if you get burned out on your two spots.

This method has worked well for us. I am pretty particular about having the right wind when I hunt my spots. Some guys will have a spot ruined after a few hunts because the wind is all wrong.

I just do not understand the whole “hunting a stand on a bad wind deal”. It boggles my mind as well. I have two stand setups on each of my feeder locations. I can hunt on any wind and feel good about it. Not saying I won’t get busted because an animal entrance is sometimes a surprise from a different direction.