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I'm totally depressed about this hunting season. The private land I hunted deer, alligator, ducks, and varments on is being leased out to someone by the new owner. For 7 years the original owner let me hunt it for doing small favors for him like fixing gates and fences, taking him and his friends out on alligator hunts, and just giving him phone call reports about his property and anything that seemed amiss.

Well about a year and a half ago he passed away (84 yrs.) and his daughter got the property. Last year I took her friends and her on alligator hunts, took one of the family out deer hunting (shot a doe during archery) and basically did the same for her as I did for her Dad.

I got a phone call from her 2 months ago and she told me she was leasing the property to a hunting club in the area that takes people on guided hunts. It was great while it lasted but......