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Old 03-12-2007, 10:32 AM
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Lanse couche couche
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Default RE: THE LAZY PEOPLE ( OUTFITTERS )

I'm gonna stay out of the debate over whether outfitters are good, bad, or neutral. But I will say that they couldn't do much of their business if landowner were not leasing their ground to them. And people do have the right to make money off their own land even if we (including me) don't necessarily like it.

The problem also goes beyond outfitting. There is not much of that in the part of Illinois where i own land and hunt. There, the price of land has gone from 400 to 2000 and acre because people, both local and out of state, were willing to pay higher and higher prices to buy land just to hunt on.

I know that deer hunting helps out local economies, but sometimes i wish that the population would drop about 75 percent. Things were a lot more fun before deer hunting became a big business and turned a lot of people into jerks.
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