Your rut is a couple weeks away, Its just starting to get good. Sign showing up everywhere and you havnt hunted your stands because of south winds in 3 weeks. All the deer you let walk, all the trail cams and work comes down to the next 3 weeks. Now the weather is perfect and its time......then you find out that your president is hosting a disable hunter's hunt on your club this weekend that had never been mentioned before. No heads up at all. 1 week notice in a text that if your hunting club land that you have to report exactly where you will be because there will be visitors "all over the lease".
I appreciate the cause and would have worked my butt off to help had this been a planned event that I was made aware of and early in the season. This may be the last straw for me. Im sick of club hoping but I just cant find one that is run correctly that has decent hunting. Am I wrong to feel this way? Any body in Pickens Co. or South Lamar need members next year?

Yep that would get old to me !

I guess it depends on whether this kinda stuff is cover in the club rules. Can he just come up with stuff like this without asking any other members? Are you the only member being affected?

So is this the issue?

I would go try and get some kid or disabled hunter on a monster, but that's just me...

Absolutely the issue that I would have. It's a REALLY great cause and everything but.... The problem is that there's not a good reason for something like this to be planned and ALL club members not be involved in deciding when it would take place. That is poor management by your club officials. Unless the landowner is the one putting it on. In that case nothing anyone can say.

Nothing wrong with the cause, but I also understand your problem with the timing of it and the notice. Not fair to members to bring any guest of any kind during the Rut. Those things should be done early in the season.

Also not fair to give so little notice.

Great cause though. I'd get on board with it this go round and make sure my feelings were known after the fact.

It is a good practice for clubs to hold a year end review right after season closes. Then address these kind of issues as a group. If the club manager/prez is unwilling to accommodate, then it's time to find a new club. It is fine if the members know ahead of time and all agree to host a hunt. But it is a bad decision to spring it on members mid-season.

I would bite my lip and keep my mouth shut, this is a no win for you. Consider your options for next year and move on. It sounds to me as if you are a person that needs to lease a small tract located in the right place. Those type tracts of land are out there, just have to locate them.

It depends on the issue you are trying to resolve.

1. If it is about the president dropping unexpected events on the members - then IF the president is the "owner" of the club and if it is something that upsets you then your only option is to leave if he takes a totalitarian stance. If he is elected - then voice your concerns about these types of things happening late in the season, and while you may support the cause - you'd prefer they be scheduled and published prior to the opening of deer season.

2. If it is about you not being able to hunt some of your areas because someone else might be hunting "your deer" - then that is a personal problem and you need to find a place to hunt all by yourself.

IMO - it is a great cause, just bad timing - but, IF you are a dick about it - then you will look like a complete ass to not only the president, but to pretty much every single person that is a member of the club.

Personally - since I could care less about killing a deer, then I'd probably volunteer to take someone with me.

This is something that should have been voted on before the season ever started.
It's a hunting club not a charity. Time to vote out your pres.

Most people here will say "I would totally support it!" That of course real easy to say when it's not their club president unilaterally doing it, their hunting time lost, and their money being wasted.

Just go hunt like you normally would. It's aggravating but don't let it ruin what your plans are. Hopefully it won't affect your chance at the one you hunting.

Yea I dont have an issue with it going on, Just the fact that it was sprung on us. I was invited to go with a friend this weekend anyway and wont be hunting there.

When a membership is paid for, the conditions of the lease should be in writing so everyone is aware of what it is. Guests and other events such as this hunt should be included because money has exchanged hands. I wouldn't have a problem with it as long as I had knowledge of it when I played my dues. It's afterwards that I would have a problem with it being sprung upon me. Charity is a personal decision not mandatory.

If I wasn't going to be there I would at least tell the where you would be hunting (your best place during the rut) and just don't show up. Then maybe they will not be around your spot you plan on hunting when you do.