I was talking with my dads 72 yr old best friend up in Northampton county the other night. We got to talking about deer hunting. He said he had actually gotten back into deer hunting this year after 25 years of not hunting. He went onto tell me how he was tired of guys hoarding up land around there. He told me of 2 hunt clubs trying to get more and more land and bickering with each other all over a friggin deer. He told me of a mutual friend that went from having no time and no land to hunt 20 years ago and now he also is trying to buy up or lease up alot of land .
That's a shame I thought . He went on to tell me that after dealing with hunters and landowners with leases for 35 years that he has learned one thing about deer hunters, they can never have enough land to hunt.
He farmed for a long time and had many a problem with renting land every year because of deer hunting. It is a shame i told him. He told me anytime I wanted to come up and hunt what little land he had to come on.
I am sure some of yall have seen situations like this occur over the years hunting. My dad always said it had more to do with CONTROL over the land than actually hunting the land. This is just one more problem with why hunting and hunters are declining.
You get a few folks controlling thousands of acres of land in one area then that don't leave much room for new hunters unless they give the OK. I have never hunted much public land but it is a good thing that we have it.
That's a shame I thought . He went on to tell me that after dealing with hunters and landowners with leases for 35 years that he has learned one thing about deer hunters, they can never have enough land to hunt.
He farmed for a long time and had many a problem with renting land every year because of deer hunting. It is a shame i told him. He told me anytime I wanted to come up and hunt what little land he had to come on.
I am sure some of yall have seen situations like this occur over the years hunting. My dad always said it had more to do with CONTROL over the land than actually hunting the land. This is just one more problem with why hunting and hunters are declining.
You get a few folks controlling thousands of acres of land in one area then that don't leave much room for new hunters unless they give the OK. I have never hunted much public land but it is a good thing that we have it.
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