There are always people who can't beleive an opportunity when they see one. How many of you would ever offer in a public forum others the invitation to hunt on their own private ground? Do many of you beleive that nursery men need to hire professional deer killers when they can just carry and kill 24hrs a day? I could easily lease the properties out to clubs and restrict access. Save money, heck why not make money? I would rather seelots of peopleenjoy the thrill of a hunt then just waste my time and efforts on crop control or make more money. Last year some people who work picking up trash for Allied Wastegot to hunt here on one of my offerings and had the time of their lives. Knowing that I gave them the best hunting adventure they ever had was my reward.

I have always tried to make our lands as open to the general public as possible. Our Doylestown farm is surrounded by urban sprall. I allow as much access as possible to hunters, fishermen, birdwatchers and even people with their dogs. I can't see crying about crop damage and then restricting access. I just beleive that I should set out reasonable rules and try to keep order. For, as big of a hunt as this can be, there has to be ORDER AND RULES. If each hunter wants the rules to his liking there really is no order and the hunt will be a mess. There will be 50 different sets of rules for 50 different hunters.

Try to think how you would run this event and not how it best suits your likings. If you want straight permission to hunt whenever you want, what happens when 10 guys show up at the same spot? You will say I let to many people come to the site. If you ask permission for a particular day and I say no maybe you could think of a reason why I said no. Maybe 10 others have already asked?


As far as signup days and how far in advance to call, this is done for my convenance and not yours. I have other things to do than pay game master. I know that if you sign up weeks in advance, many of you will be no shows. I have indicated that I will work with the group that wants to organize a group outing. I can dothis for afew groups. I too,don't want to hunt alone. I belong to a group and we always hunt together. I understand what you all are thinking and understand your positions.

I want to make this hunt available for the most amount of people as possible. I want as little bother to my neighbors. Do you understand that some don't want you to hunt or go on their private property.Maybe they hate deer killing and don't want to here about how ethical is for you to go on their property and retreive that deer that you wounded? Some of my neighbors hate hunting. I will direct you away from their properties. Think about all the different views neighbors might have re this offering. Do you think they are going to welcome you to the neighborhood?

I can go on and on and I am sure that this crew will try to disect and go over every word I write. But here is a recent example.

Aman stopped in afew months ago and wanted to have hisbeagles chase rabbits. I said okay showed him the lines and asked that he just stay on my property. I told him don't go next door. Well after afew times hunting a neighbors hedge row was just to much for him and his dogs. So they chased rabbits overthru the neighbors hedge rowand dogs went right to the neighbors green houses. This upset the neighbors cats and they disrubted the neighbors afternoon. The rabbiteer told me all about the event.How it was nice to meet the neighbor and how everything was fine. Yet the neighbor called me to ask that this man never go back and hunt with his dogs. He wanted me to settle it and not be bothered.

If you don't like my rules in this hunt, well,expain howto make it better, make suggestions for what you think is better. Have any of you ever done anything like this before ? I hope you all can be contributers to the hunt instead of being upset withhow it is being run. I have been thru this before. I have come to know what works and what does not. Yet I know that there is always room for improvement. Bill