You need to be leasing your own place. BADLY. How long have you been hunting this lease together?

At our lease we were all required to furnish an elevated box stand. We all use and share them. Finding a lock on a stand wouldn't be well received at my club.

I would NEVER hunt with someone who locked me out of a stand or I felt I had to lock out of mine. Then again, the thought of locking someone else out of a stand on property where they are paying an equal share of the lease cost and showing up when required to work would never cross my mind.

You need to be talking to him, heart to heart. This sounds like a really bad situation to me.

I used to have a friend who would always try to pinch off my loaf on everything. It got old and he knew exactly what he was doing. When we rented a house together we took turns going to the grocery store. I always bought ham. He always ate the ham. But when it was his turn, he always bought bologna. We aren't friends anymore.

People will continue to take advantage of you as long as you continue to cave.

fyi, pinching a loaf is pooping reference.

I used to have a friend who would always try to pinch off my loaf on everything. It got old and he knew exactly what he was doing. When we rented a house together we took turns going to the grocery store. I always bought ham. He always ate the ham. But when it was his turn, he always bought bologna. We aren't friends anymore.

People will continue to take advantage of you as long as you continue to cave.

I guess I`m just different. if I hang a stand, tri-pod or shooting house, go hunt the damn thing. most of the time, my go to spots for killing bucks doesn't have a permanent stand anyhow.

A point to this conversation that usually isn't talked about is this-

It's always "that guy" who you really don't want sharing your stands. Not sure if that makes sense....you know what I mean?

In all the situations I've personally been in like that, I've never had another one of the "good" hunters want to share my places, nor would I have cared though if THEY did. For me it was always that guy who was a lazy hunter, never scouted, probably didn't even show up for work days, then shows up on opening day of gun season and climbs in your ladder/house, with the wrong wind (which is why you weren't in it to start with). LOL Most of us were somewhat private with our spots to start with...you might have known my truck was parked at such-n-such gate, but you didn't really know I walked with my climber into that cluster of white oaks off the back side of that cutover a mile down the roadbed. Only a few of us even knew that spot was there, and even fewer would work that hard to hunt it. But if there's a shooting house on the powerline, you can bet yo fanny every one of "those guys" were always hunting it.

I don't think it's as much about YOU as it is them. If YOU built a shooting house on our club--literally it was YOUR labor and money, not "club" labor and money--then I would probably never hunt out of it unless we were tighter than usual buddies and/or you had expressly insisted that I hunt it. But many fellas don't see it that way.