Had the perfect crew on a lease in Mo for 9 years.
It was 7 hours from home for half of us and the others were either local or lived within three hours of it.
We shared info, shared the work. Had a couple mandatory work weekends a year that were just an excuse to get together, drink beer and eat like kings.
We all had stands we " preferred " to hunt but who went to what stand was never an issue and all the stands were open to whoever wanted to hunt them. Having 20 stands on 1400 acres made that easy.
We killed a 150-160 class deer off the place every year.
Club rule was 8 point or better and outside the ears or it wasn't a shooter. We had an abundance of does that could be shot to fill freezers plus by state law we could purchase all the doe tags in that county we wanted.
Never an issue until the landowner was approached by a young man who wanted to get into farming.
He offered him $150K for a 3 year lease and we were gone.
His $50k a year trumped the $18k we were paying.
The 8 of us still get together. We were just up in the area last weekend hunting geese on a neighboring farm.
We're actively searching for another property to lease in the area.
