Imagine this. You lease land from a timber company for a substantial amount of money. You spend all year getting ready for deer season. Then the weekend before opening gun season, you find a strange truck on your property. You then ask what he is doing there and he informs you that they are marking areas for fifth row cutting next week. You think “NEXT WEEK!” Well this happened to us. So they waited all year to decide to cut during opening of the deer season. We were not happy and the timber guy could sense it. He then made a sarcastic comment that we were one of the lucky clubs. As he laughed, he told us that there were 2 clubs down the road from us that were going to have all their land clear cut. He found this humorous thinking that they were going to show up to hunt next weekend and their property will look like an atomic bomb testing site. Such insensitivity shared by him.
Luckily for us, we have enough land that we could hunt other areas. It took 3 weeks for them to finish 5th row cutting. One thing we did learn, was the cutting did not bother the deer. It actually funneled the deer closer to our other stands. This is not the point I wanted to make. The title of this posts states that it is our pleasure to lease their land. That is how all the timber companies think. They feel that if you do not like it then they will lease to the next group of hunters. Their philosophy is that there is limited supply of hunting land to lease and a massive amount of hunters looking for it. Knowing this, they do not care about how they treat the hunters. I hate it but that is life. Unless you can lease from a private land owner or if you are fortunate enough to be able to afford your own land then you are stuck with this crappy situation. Oh well, at least our land is going to be more productive with young tender growth now that it was cut but that is not the point…
Before and After shots:
