When dealing with corporations/large companies that own land and allow hunting, the CEO of the corporation has the authority to issue permission for deer and turkey hunting on the property.

If you look at our statutes and regulations, the answers are there but they are scattered around in different places.

Sec. 26-66. Scope of regulations. The commissioner may adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 governing the taking of wildlife, provided any regulations concerning the taking of migratory game birds shall be consistent with section 26-91. The regulations may: ... (8) require that a permit be obtained from the landowner or his agent, ...

Sec. 26-86a. Game management. Deer hunting; permitted weapons, locations, bag limits. Consent forms; permits, selection process. ... The commissioner shall issue, without fee, a private land deer permit to the owner of ten or more acres of private land and the husband or wife, parent, grandparent, sibling and any lineal descendant of such owner, provided no such owner, husband or wife, parent, grandparent, sibling or lineal descendant shall be issued more than one such permit per season.

The statutes require that you be the owner, husband, wife, parent, grandparent, sibling, any lineal descendant of the owner. If your grandfather, grandmother, father, mother or you owned the land then you would qualify for the free landowner permit. In this case you have a legally formed corporation in Connecticut. The corporation is the landowner and does not have lineal descendants, mother, father, etc.

In your case you are dealing with a family property where all the family members are shareholders. If you take the situation to the extreme and look at say United Technologies, which owns a lot of land in Connecticut, they are a legal corporation same as your family. If all of their shareholders were considered owners then there could conceivably be hundreds of thousands of people who could claim that they should get free landowner permits.

Not the answer you were hoping for, but if you get your private land deer tags you can hunt there anyway.

Crop damage permits rule. You can put me on that list if they ever need people to pull the trigger lol.

Crop damage deer are tasty !
What sucks is that the temps during crop damage season are usually in the range where you need to get it gutted and cooled within hours .
Really not much different than bow hunting on an 80 degree day in September though .
With crop damage permits you can shoot 'em with a rifle during bow season , a landowner permit won't let you shoot until Nov. 1 .

Go for the crop damage, leave the stick launcher in the closet and fill the freezer! I just leave the does that would be loaded alone.

You're right Will. If they're wasting it, than screw that. I would just be putting meat in the freezer.