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I got thrown out of one four years ago.

Little back story..... A buddy of mine got me in the club and hunted with me in it the first year. He got an opportunity to take over another lease at the end of the season and moved on. When he left some accusations were made that he took some stuff that belonged to the club which is not true but that's another story. I hunted in the club another two seasons and punched out a limit of bucks in year two (three 120 - 130 inch 8 points). The next season one of the long time members got his 20 something year old son in the club in exchange that he would do the field work and nobody else had to do it. Me and this kid clashed from Day 1 and I believe he and his Dad were the ringleaders in my ouster.

In year 3 on opening day I invited my not very popular aforementioned buddy to hunt with me and he wound up killing a really nice very tall buck. Of course this red assed the other members but they didn't say anything to me until later in the season. Rock on till about late December and I had not been to the club since opening weekend. I rode down one morning and just sat on a road bordering a bedding area and killed a really nice 8 point crossing into the bedding area. A few weeks later on Martin Luther King Jr Day I brought an 11 year old kid with me and he got cold that morning and wanted to get up and move around. So we walked fire breaks for a while and came out on some road that I had never been on. We sat down and did a little rattling sequence and a pretty nice 8 ran out in the road and the kid shot it. They didn't say anything to me in front of the kid but about midweek the grumbling started on the group text saying that I had shot the deer (untrue) and I defended myself. Got tired of that nonsense and just stopped participating in the text. I probably should have just let it lay but I went down the last weekend and wound up killing a 10 point they had been after all season. Now there were no rules whatsoever on how many bucks you could kill other than follow State Law. All the deer were club legal. No guest rules were broken because there were no guest rules. They encourage bringing guests because "the social aspect of deer hunting is what makes it special" as it states in the rules. With all that said, not a single rule was violated. Shortly after the season went out I got a call saying I wasn't a good fit for the membership and that I was out. I'm assuming that the fact that I killed 5 good deer in two years and my guests killed 2 while the rest of the club managed to kill a whole lot of nothing in that same span didn't sit well with a few of them.

My friend warned me that it was going to happen though. He told me if you could hunt and started killing big deer that they would adios you, and he was right. I don't hold any ill will tpwards them even though I still feel it was unjustified.... I still see those guys from time to time and I stop by and talk to them like the old friends most of them are. At the end of the day they are good people, but jealousy over deer and turkeys is an ugly thing.