So what your saying is that you cant pay the rates of an outfitter,and cant find a lease of your own.So youre going to badmouth the outfitters and hope to get a lease that way.On top of that, now you are crying that they wont shoot does.If they did shoot does,Youd be crying about that.Its been a long winter for all of us.I just hope you sober up before you talk to any real people.Find a piece ofpublic land and scout it well.You wont know the differance.Except,no tractor to go pick up the deer.LOL
ORIGINAL: excalibur43
Landowners selling hunts on their own land is one thing. It's their land, they pay the taxes, they can do what they want. Making thousands of dollars off of that landowner, not paying taxes on the land, and keeping local hunters and their kids from enjoying a weekend in the woods, I do have a problem with. Thanks to furpoacher, I am going to make ( putting outfitters out of business ) my new hobby. It's every hunter, fisherman, and outdoors enthusiast business, and their responsibility as a conservationist. According to ODNR, there are way too many does in Ohio. Outfitters are not going to harvest does. Their clients are there for antlers, period! And no one else will be harvesting does on leased land because they can't hunt it. I think it's every outdoor person's responsibility to educate farmers and landowners who are leasing their land to outfitters. I think they would like to know what is being done on their land, the outfitter sure isn't going to be honest with them!