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Old 03-17-2009 | 08:46 PM
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Next, DRIFTRIDER, I want to thank you as well for your post and would like to clear up a couple of things that you mentioned. The website is still a work in progress and you did make me catch a couple of things that perhaps I need to be more clear about on the website...just part of the process of working out the kinks but I want you and anyone else to be clear on our intentions and how we aim to do things at our ranch. Regarding the trophy fees, no there are normally no trophy fees. We do have a couple of very big blackbucks and a couple of Gold Medal Axis. Those do have a trophy fee and that is stated UP FRONT to anyone who is going to be hunting those species. All Super-Exotics have a trophy fee in addition to a day rate if one is harvested. We do have that any whitetails over 160 will have a trophy fee. All of this will be disclosed up front of anyone hunting those species. There will never be any surprises. We never have any trophy fee on rams, turkeys, or hogs. If someone comes in and kills that 450 pounder (hog) with a bow...right now that will cost them $200 (unless they choose to hunt more than 2 days) and they still get another hog as well. If someone shoots a piggy sow, and we feel it was by accident...we wouldn't enforce that replacement fee. But we do have to have replacement fees. If we do not, there will be hunters who will take advantage of the situation and that is unfortunate. It is up to us how strict we enforce it, but on something like hogs...it would have to be just a blatent disregard for our rules that would make us tack on a replacement fee on a hog.
This would make me feel better about booking a hunt with your outfit. It's not necessarily the fees themselves so much as making sure that everything is up front and clearly defined. No hidden fees or surprises after the hunter has already forked over the booking fees and especially after an animal is down. I would really like to try hog hunting some day. It seems like it'd be a whole lot of fun, and I'm guessing a nice fat sow would be really good eating too. I envy those of you who live in places where the wild pigs roam with no seasons or bag limits. I'd be out every chance I got trying to top off my freezer with cheap wild pork.

Mike
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