Is this guy self appointed or was there any discussion about it?

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Shoot your allotted deer this year and get the hell off.

Lease rules should be in writing and crystal clear. If they are not, this is what you get!

I do NOT like community stands one bit unless all feed throughout the year is 'community purchased'.
Unless all feed is bought as a group and dispensed you will always have those that spend much more and feed much more than others yet those that don't spend that extra money always gravitate to the other stands of other hunters who've spent the money and fed more because they've typically drawn more and better deer in!

Iluv, I would of assumed that a community stands lease also shares the feed costs within the community. On ours, once the equipment is set up everything is shared. We equally share the feed costs as well as paying a member to fill them. They are all filled at the same time and set to throw the same amounts at the same times. All batteries and repairs etc are shared. Hardly any of our members probably even knows who actually owns the equipment,

When run the way you describe above it should work great I would think for the most part.
The problem is I've been on a couple leases where I set up a couple nice stands with a couple feeders at each stand while others set up pop-ups, tripods, or a few boards nailed together for a stand and started feeding 100 lbs of corn a month in September where I fed heavily the entire year. Then, guess which stands were always chosen first when the draw for stands happened when multiple lease members were there?!! lmao

Well, guess what happened...…
Two guys picked my two stands so my son went to one of theirs and I went to another.
a 146" 9 point walked out in front of me and I put a 165 grains through his ribs and he made his way to my wall!
This was a 6400 acre LF ranch about 20 miles south of Sonora 10 years ago!

When run the way you describe above it should work great I would think for the most part.
The problem is I've been on a couple leases where I set up a couple nice stands with a couple feeders at each stand while others set up pop-ups, tripods, or a few boards nailed together for a stand and started feeding 100 lbs of corn a month in September where I fed heavily the entire year. Then, guess which stands were always chosen first when the draw for stands happened when multiple lease members were there?!! lmao

Well, guess what happened...…
Two guys picked my two stands so my son went to one of theirs and I went to another.
a 146" 9 point walked out in front of me and I put a 165 grains through his ribs and he made his way to my wall!
This was a 6400 acre LF ranch about 20 miles south of Sonora 10 years ago!

Yeah. Indubitably. That's why I bought my own place. My rules.

some of you crack me up - the guys who do not want any lease rules are the ones who have to lock their blinds ???

Is there a correlation here?

I hear you - I also owned my own ranch and loved it but I also love hunting with others to share the experience - that is why I decided to get a first class lease and do my best to run it the right way - 13 years later it is an experience I would never give up -

I am one who wants lease rules and definitely doesn't want to have to lock any blinds unless it is to keep illegals from camping out overnight in them down south or out west!

I just feel the better defined the lease rules are the better they are understood and followed by all.

I think the way freerange does it with his group is the best way when it comes to the feeding program and everyone needs to understand up front that they will be paying their share of that bill each month or quarterly.
It just seems to me when your lease is one that everyone is supposed to take care of their own spot individually it ends up where one or two guys do a great job and the others get by with as little as they can and then 'leach' off the few that go 'all in'!