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tycteach, I know you mean well, and I suspect you may earn some income from this sort of hunting arangement, and I do understand where you are comeing from.
At the same time you are overlooking some important points as well.
1, the people in the great state of Texas are begging for help with the hog problem!
2, If I were to come and help with their problem I'd have to loose a week of work, gas enough for the 1500 mile round trip ( I live in Alabama ) then pay for food and lodging, buy a non resident hunting license and low and behold pay a redicilous price for the hog if I do in fact kill one!
3,Why the he!! would I do something as stupid as this when a bear or elk hunt would likely not cost more?
4, Well I live 35 minutes from Talladega super speedway and I've never been to a race there, as I've never seen a pro baseball game or football game from the statum, and will never pay to see one either!
1. Name two.
2. So stay home.
3. Why, indeed.
4. Good for you.
A lot of the guys who are champing at the bit to hunt hogs live in urban/suburban areas (guys like me), and their hunting skills run the gamut, from being expert and ethical to being complete neophytes to being absolutely insane. To be blunt about it, guys like me have more money than free time, so it's worth it to us to pay a couple of hundred dollars to hunt hogs.
What people fail to realize (most of whom don't live in Texas) is that farmers and ranchers
who know the guys who want to hunt there are reputed to be pretty good about letting them do it.
But then the guys they do know tend to invite others, and before you know it, the landowner has problems. In these lawsuit-crazy days, I don't blame the landowners for being careful about who gets on their property.Trading one kind of destructivepest (hogs) for another (morons with guns) isn't much of an improvement.
Any landowner is under no obligation whatsoever to allow anyone to hunt on his property. In fact, I own land that I don't hunt, and I won't let anyone else hunt either, because I don't want to be liable for some idiot.