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Old 04-14-2007 | 09:55 AM
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ORIGINAL: atlasman

Let me ask you something Don..........what would hunting be like if even 1/2 of the guys out there employed your strategy of hording hundreds or thousands of acres of land to hunt and shared it with no one else??
Guys like you would be playing golf ..... but only if someone else picked you up and drove you to the golf course


Oh and by the way, besides the very small tract of land that I own and hunt, I also hunt 6 other properties by asking permission from other landowners. (every other human being on planet earth has the same chance toask these same landowners for hunting permission) Am I to dictate to them who hunts their land? It is their choice to allow or deny others permission to hunt, not mine. I just make an effort to seek out those landowners who normally dont allow hunting and then try to gain access by prooving that I am a responsible and ethical hunter AND by remembering these folks by offering help to them in whatever form I see that they might need.

Maybe the next time I try to access one of these places I should say "Hello Mr Smith. My name is Don Higgins I would like the priveledge of hunting your property and I would also like to have other hunters come by and hunt from my stands on the days that I am not here. I am not sure yet who they will be but it will be the kind of people who dont put out any effort to stop by on their own or hang their own stands. They would probably stop by and ask personally but every Tuesday that have to file for unemployment and on Fridays they get their check in the mail and go to the bank so they are really busy. I know you are really particular about your property Mr Smith so I will only tell a few people about it."

You call it "selfish", I call it "lazy"
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