If you have written permission, you don't have a concern unless the guy talks the landowner into taking it back. I wonder why the brother of the landowner thinks he has any right to say who hunts his brother's land? Sounds like he's just trying to bully you off the property, a tactic that has probably worked for him before.
Again, another attempt at intimidating someone to leave. Over the years, many was the time I've had folks tell me straight faced I was trespassing......when in truth I was on my own property, or on property owned by family/friends where I had permission. Many times those folks were neighbors who just wanted to keep folks away. Sometimes it was folks that had permission in the past to hunt there and had not talked to the previous landowner for years....and did not realize the property had changed hands, or that the landowner did not realize those folks were still using his property(because they hadn't asked for a long time). This is why folks need to contact the landowner every year, before hunting season. One cannot assume they have permission year after year or assume it's alright to take others along. Just as one cannot assume they are the only one the landowner has given permission to.
As for calling the other's idiots....they may very well be, or they may just be jerks. They also may be talking about you the same way. If they too have permission to hunt those properties, they are probably just as upset as you are. Thing is, they, like you, have to deal with it in a adult and responsible manor. Communicate when and where you will be hunting. Respect their area, even on days when they are not there and ask they do the same. Odds are if you hunt well, and they are idiots, they may drive more deer your way than not. Part of expecting others to provide you with a place to hunt is dealing with others like you......folks wanting a great place to hunt, all by themselves, for nuttin'.
You don't want to deal with others like you, you need to get your own property or endear yourself to landowners in a way that will keep others out. That means either paying for the privilege or repaying the favor in kind.
I don't mine sharing at all and hunted this farm with one other guy who we had an agreement of where I was and where he was and he told me he would stay away from my setup and I too his. I'm thinking this other guy seen the path my brushhogged through the crp to funnel the deer to my 2 stands from the bedding area and fields and said hmmm, ive got 7 days until bow opener let me go buy a ladder stand, camera, salt block, corn and slap that stand up in a tree that's only about 8" diameter with my camera looking through the steps, all the white wrappers attached to the ladder and face it towards the path that I cut. I have no issue with that but to me that's an idiot! I tried to be nice and say hey you got some pics of me, this is who I am, call me and lets talk. His response was thanks for leaving notes on my stand, I appreciate that! Do you have permission to be here? I showed the owners brother your pics and he said he doesn't know you. we aren't happy about intruders! I replied I do have permission and have for the last 4yrs, do you guys have permission? I got pics of 2 guys messing around by my camera? His reply was-I do and I have been here 5yrs. The brother signs for me every year. I have 2 ladder stands out here and one for many, many years that someone put a stand up 30yards from. I said not mine I know where that stand is and I'm far from it and my other stands been there 18yrs passed on from another hunter who helped me get into that farm. I said look, I'm not trying to argue, be rude, etc. we both hunt here and I figured I would let you know who I was, when I hunt and where so we don't mess each other up. your stuff popped up a week before opening day so I didn't know what was going on. His response-so long as you really do have permission there wont be any issues.
I always offer to help the landowners and get told no thanks. I don't make enough money to lease, buy land, etc. My camera went from 10pics a day for weeks to them messing around by it and no deer pics for 8 days so yes I'm a little pissed cause an adult possible deleted my card or sabotaged my area. we have a county hunt club that the president goes around, knocks on doors and asks to hunt and the farmers hate the deer so say yes. they have 2 counties all locked up as far as land as a lot of these farmers own 2-6 different parcels throughout the county so its hard to not run into them.
You keep saying people like me? what exactly are people like me? I get my slip signed every year, take the farmer a fresh pie, send Christmas cards, stop and talk when I see them out, etc. now the club guys think because there is a little white sign on the telephone pole they can just hunt it and treat everyone else that doesn't want to pay $400year, be forced to attend monthly meetings or get booted and sell $100 in gun tickets or pay for them yourself then they can treat me however they want.
Would I like exclusive rights? heck yeah, who wouldn't? do I mind sharing these farms? only when someone decides that hes too lazy or some kind of tough guy that's going to sit in my stands, pull my camera cards, and curse me up, down, sideways from Thursday because I'm not part of their cult, I mean club.
. Ive come out of the woods and had my truck blocked in by other hunters, cursed at cause I squirrel hunted a farm and it was during the rut so I shouldn't be out there and now this.
I just needed to vent a little and I figured my fellow hunters would be good people to vent too. guess not.