MA JAY:
The "little" tract of land I hunt behind my house for thoseyoung deer is 7 miles by 3 miles of roadless woods
IN this part of the country, an area like that is just another standard size ranch. I'd say that alot of the guys who hunt around here hunt on private pieces of land that big or bigger each and every year.
The elk I will chase across Colorado this fall, will probably be on a little patch of 20,000 acres or so.
I personally own alittle more then half that many acres. 20,000 acres is a nice place, but considering your hunting an OTC unit in Colorado for elk, your sharing that land with hundreds of other people. Not my idea of fun, and something I would never do....
These areas do not sound like the kinds of places you would be interested in hunting though, as you can't push the critters up against a fence to be harvested.
You are right, I have no desire to hunt either of those places, because I refuse to hunt in Sub-par habitat for sub-par animals. And I'll be damned if I will sit on a bluff and see more hunters then actual animals...Sorry but that just aint for me
You are to foolish to realize just how much damage you do to all of us hunters by trying to call shooting farmed and penned animals hunting. Do it all you want, but never think you are the equal of a person who harvests a legal free ranging deer, with a valid license during an actual hunting season
That could perhaps me the most idiotic statement I've ever read on this site. And you are right, I'm not an "equal person to you" because of the places thatI hunt. Guys like yourself have to settle for OTC units in Colorado, while guys like me can hunt that 50,000 acre private land in New Mexico or buy an auction tag at a SFW banquet in Utah. So I guess where not on the same level. I guess that is why you have such an idiotic and biased view towards everything that happens off of public lands.....