I can relate all too well of this scenario.  That, in itself, is why I purchased enough land to hunt for myself, friends and family.  While we don't see that many deer in my area I don't have to wonder whether or not I will have a place to hunt.

Best of luck to you.  Maybe the land owner will change his mind

Sorry to hear that you lost your spot.

I am more of the mind that if a landowner no longer grants me permission to hunt - then that is their decision. They own the land and pay the taxes - they are free to make their own decisions.

Too bad that it's about the neighbors - but the land owner has to live with them year around.  I would personally thank him for the previous years and move on.  

Wish I could afford my own land - for now I'm hunting public land a bit of the wife's family farm when I'm able to make it back.

Yep, time to pull out the money! Have the lease for you both to sign along with the cash.

Re-instated!

Well, I had a good talk with the landowner and the neighbor and I'm back on the property!.  I have always done things to help the land owner out and this helped a lot. Also, the fact that I have never had any bad encounters with neighbors helped.  

I can't tell you how happy this makes me.  Once you get to know a piece of land, you become attached to it, even if it is not yours.  You talk in terms of specific trees and locations like "the log that we saw the fisher cat on two years ago"  or "the place where you saw the twelve point buck."  And you develop a real attachment. My heart if full again!

Congrats on the resolution.  Glad it worked out for you.  Now get out there and kill something.    

I'm betting something else is going on.

Glad that it worked out for you!  As you just found out, permission to hunt another persons land is a privelege not to be taken lightly.  I'm sure that your prior efforts to help out the landowner made a big difference, and naturally you will want to do all that you can going forward as well.  It might not be a bad idea to drop a note of thanks to the neighbor as well and provide them with your phone number should they ever have any concerns about what they see going on next door.  Maybe even a couple of sticks of venison sausage!

That's awesome that you got back in their good graces! I'm happy for you. One thing I noticed about me personally since this thread was started was it seamed like every time I called or txt the owners of a small place that I could only hog hunt it was only to let them know when I would be hunting. So I started just checking in on them and would make small talk and ask if there was anything I could do to help out around the place. And even took them some elk meat. The husband works out of town and the wife isn't in the best of health. They actually gave me permission to deer hunt just a few weeks back. I think the small talk went a long way in helping that along. I also think there is something we can all learn from this. I know I have! One of my favorite threads!  

Glad it all worked out for you! Its hard to lose a good piece of property!

Ray Hammond - I have some worries too.
What else do you think could be going on?

Sounds to me like the land owner is unable to tell you that he really doesn't want you there, so he lays the blame on the neighbor.  LF