If anyone runs into a guy named PAT REYES do not sign a lease with him it is a joke and the place is shot out. the lease is down between uvalde and batesville. we payed 6500 a hunter and promised at least a 170" and he had pictures so heck yea i was in especially with deer prices going through the roof and we got three bucks out of the deal. then come bow season he tells us no bow hunting... ok no big deal i understand that but it would've been nice to know before money was handed over.
after moving in 6 stands and feeders of my own and buying 6 cameras i wasn't getting pictures of anything over 3 yrs old and 100" all summer long. I ran into one of the other lease guys that told me he'd been on it for a few years and the biggest deer he had seen was 120" (worried). eventually got with a couple guys that had gotten on when i did and had there own cameras set up and they hadn't seen any decent mature deer either.
End of bow season i started going and sitting with my camera and would see a new truck drive by every time so one day i came out of my pop up blind and asked a guy if he was on the lease and he tells me that he is on a day hunt (there weren't supposed to be any day hunters). on into deer season i finally saw my first deer that was mature and he was 131" so i shot him for my cull buck. he ended up being the last mature deer we saw on over 30 cameras myself and two other guys were running. when we confronted pat with the place being day hunted we where all kicked off and were told that we were not allowed to take any of our feeders off the place until after the season.
we found the heads of 29 yearling spikes that pat had shot and constantly had pictures of people hunting our stands or driving by us in trucks day hunting. There is way more to this story but in summary stay clear of him and you will see this lease on criagslist this spring but do not waste your money cause you will be donating it to a sorry SOB.
after moving in 6 stands and feeders of my own and buying 6 cameras i wasn't getting pictures of anything over 3 yrs old and 100" all summer long. I ran into one of the other lease guys that told me he'd been on it for a few years and the biggest deer he had seen was 120" (worried). eventually got with a couple guys that had gotten on when i did and had there own cameras set up and they hadn't seen any decent mature deer either.
End of bow season i started going and sitting with my camera and would see a new truck drive by every time so one day i came out of my pop up blind and asked a guy if he was on the lease and he tells me that he is on a day hunt (there weren't supposed to be any day hunters). on into deer season i finally saw my first deer that was mature and he was 131" so i shot him for my cull buck. he ended up being the last mature deer we saw on over 30 cameras myself and two other guys were running. when we confronted pat with the place being day hunted we where all kicked off and were told that we were not allowed to take any of our feeders off the place until after the season.
we found the heads of 29 yearling spikes that pat had shot and constantly had pictures of people hunting our stands or driving by us in trucks day hunting. There is way more to this story but in summary stay clear of him and you will see this lease on criagslist this spring but do not waste your money cause you will be donating it to a sorry SOB.
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