Well last year I finally pulled the trigger and bought a place of my own. After lots of research, comparisons, looking around etc. I settled on Northern Missouri and started seriously looking for a piece of ground. With lots of support from my wife I closed on a small farm (86 acres) early last November and became a "Landowner". I wouldn't get to hunt the place last year due to drawing an Iowa tag and spending my vacation time hunting up at Dad's place.
After of lots of planning, work, and travel (7 hour drive from home to the farm), along with some ups and downs including a visit from a local ne'r-do-well meth-head that broke into my cabin last summer, the first Fall Hunt on my own place finally rolled around.
I traveled out there on Halloween, and spent a wonderful first week of November ending up by shooting the first deer on my own place!
He's no monster - but there is something special about killing one on your own ground. This guy was pretty local, and I have a hundred or so pictures of him, mostly through the summer on a mineral lick......
Yeah, I'm one of "those guys" that doesn't bother to set the time/date stamp on the camera!