??Do you hunt on private or public land??

MOTurkeyTamer · 03-01-2003, 05:55 PM

Where does everybody do the bulk of their hunting, on public land or land owned by yourself or others? I do all my hunting on private land owned by my brother-in-law and his father and some neighboring properties of people I know. Sure works out great for me and I wholeheartedly appreciate their hospitality by letting me be a guest on their land. Can' t say enough about folks who are willing to let you hunt on them and expect nothing in return for it. People like that are gettting fewer and farther between in this day and age of leasing land out to hunt.

MTT

BuckoDuck · 03-01-2003, 06:08 PM

UP UNTIL LAST YEAR I DID MOST OF MY TURKEY HUNTING ON PUBLIC LAND. LAST SPRING I BOUGHT 80 ACRES IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS IN THE OZARKS. I' M 3/4 MILE FROM THE OZARK NATIONAL FOREST AND HAVE ACCESS THROUGH MY NEIGHBOR' S LAND TO THE FOREST SO I AM ABLE TO HUNT PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LAND ALL IN ONE AREA. BEFORE I HUNTED MOSTLY IN THE OUACHITA NATIONAL FOREST IN WEST CENTRAL ARK. IN MISSOURI I HUNT PRIVATE GROUND WITH SOME FRIENDS OF MINE NEAR STANBERRY NEAR WHERE YOU ARE LOCATED ALSO ON PRIVATE GROUND NORTH OF JEFF. CITY.

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turk2di · 03-01-2003, 06:33 PM

Hunt public ground. Have pretty much my entire carear.Huntn Peabody WMA, LBL, and Pennyrile State Park.[8D]

Ifly · 03-01-2003, 06:35 PM

Hunt all public land here in fl.

35 Whelen · 03-01-2003, 06:40 PM

I hunt only public land not luck enough to have private land to hunt

BrushChimp · 03-01-2003, 06:45 PM

I hunt Private and Public land. The private land isn' t really private, anybody who wants to hunt there, can and will.

BuckAlley · 03-01-2003, 06:56 PM

Turkey hunting has gotten very popular in recent yrs here in upstate NY. I have several spots to hunt. They are both private, and public. I have run into hunters on both. What I do is drive to my location of choice. If another hunter has beaten me there I move onto another spot. To me its difficult to hunt an area when you have other hunters there calling, and alot of times to the same Tom you are. I hate it when someone does it to me, but I feel just as bad if I' m trying to work the same bird another hunter is on alreadly. Unless I happen to meet up with that hunter and get his stratigy first I may consider hunting the same spot. But as we all know plans change with those crazy birds. So I prefer to leave it to them, and I' ll try it another day. I wish others would follow suit, and be just as considerate. I' ve had other hunters bump, spook, and turn a tom I' d been working, and it really urks me, because I' d not do that to them.

roman · 03-01-2003, 07:01 PM

Mainly public land.
I have been granted permission to hunt a farm with many longbeards . The majority of it is posted to those that don' t ask. A small section where the toms hang out is heavily posted. The farmer has told me to hunt there
but he has two boys that LOVE to hunt turkeys. As far as I am concerned that is their territory. If I don' t kill a bird in the other farm spots I go to public areas including behind my house.

PABeardBuster · 03-01-2003, 07:34 PM

I' m usually on public ground, but we have a lot of it in this state. I hunt a few private places too. Just because it' s private ground doesn' t mean your gonna have a pushover hunt, they' re still turkeys.

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