I hate ranchers sometimes!!!
07-14-2005, 07:46 PM
#1
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Weatherford, TX
Posts: 557
I hate ranchers sometimes!!!
Well I just went to the lease to check on things and put out my game cam and WOW!!!!! 450-500 acres was whiped out , not a single living plant for as far as you could see, the rancher aireal sprayed it with a product called "BRASH" very nasty stuff, it killed all the trees and plants, I know the ranch makes over a quarter mill a year off its cattle , but dang alittle warning goes a long way..... We payed to hunt 1450 acres, not a 1000.... so all six of us that hunt the property are meeting out there fri. night to take a good look at how bad it is and then we are going to get our ducks in a row and have a talk with the ranch manger about a possible cost adjustment of letting us hunt more land to the east..... man this just plain sucks!!
07-14-2005, 09:02 PM
#2
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: some were
Posts: 801
RE: I hate ranchers sometimes!!!
I cant feel bad for ya, I hunt state land and CFR land and if you think ranchers are hard to deal with imagine going into your stand to find a guy in a orange vest marking your tree (that you have used for 3 years, with some luck) to be cut, not next year but in 4 days. Then imagine what it feels like to haveyour state sell the ground your family has hunted on for years to a sulfid mine. At least you can talk tothe rancher and reason with him, there is on reasoning withGovernment or logers.
Man if people keep buying up this earth there wont be anything left for the little guy to use.
Best of luck in the fall, and hope it all works out.
Man if people keep buying up this earth there wont be anything left for the little guy to use.
Best of luck in the fall, and hope it all works out.
07-15-2005, 12:39 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Crosby TX USA
Posts: 2,599
RE: I hate ranchers sometimes!!!
Sorry to hear of that.
Reminds me of spending all summer (happened twice) making me a bowhuntinghoney hole in my piney woods lease only to have them clear cut my area in September[:@].
Reminds me of spending all summer (happened twice) making me a bowhuntinghoney hole in my piney woods lease only to have them clear cut my area in September[:@].
07-15-2005, 05:29 AM
#5
Dominant Buck
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ramsey , Indiana
Posts: 22,545
RE: I hate ranchers sometimes!!!
ORIGINAL: cardeer
I dont understand why they would kill all the vegetation ??? What do the cattle eat ?? DUST
I dont understand why they would kill all the vegetation ??? What do the cattle eat ?? DUST
07-15-2005, 06:01 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Memphis TN USA
Posts: 3,445
RE: I hate ranchers sometimes!!!
Honestly, we would have to come to an agreement on a cost adjustment that I could live with or I would have to take my own cost adjustment out, one way or the other.
07-15-2005, 06:26 AM
#8
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: San Marcos TX USA
Posts: 187
RE: I hate ranchers sometimes!!!
That really bites. I am clearing a 700 acre ranch near Austin. I use a bobcat with a brushshark for heavy brush, a terminater for larger items. We had a state biologist on this property to advise on maintaining a good environment for wildlife. What did they spray mesquite?
07-15-2005, 06:58 AM
#9
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: I hate ranchers sometimes!!!
I doubt he sprayed to produce a good dust bowl. He's going to put something there that'll probably attract a lot more critters your way. Be patient. Look at it this way, he's created a couple temporary bottlenecks for you. I wouldn't get too upset and high and mighty with the landlord over him farming his place. Find out what he intends to do with it. It's possible he'll leave a couple swaths around the edges you could use to plant some sure enough deer forage. It will only get better. 1000 acreas surrounding a nice field is worth the wait. Patience is a virtue Grasshopper. You start having a feud with a landowner over the way he's doing what he wants with "HIS" land...... you're going to loose. I'm sure there are plenty of others standing in line waiting for the lease. If he has ore acreage adjacent you might try for a "temporary swap", but I'd play nice.
07-15-2005, 07:18 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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RE: I hate ranchers sometimes!!!
ORIGINAL: davidmil
I doubt he sprayed to produce a good dust bowl. He's going to put something there that'll probably attract a lot more critters your way. Be patient. Look at it this way, he's created a couple temporary bottlenecks for you. I wouldn't get too upset and high and mighty with the landlord over him farming his place. Find out what he intends to do with it. It's possible he'll leave a couple swaths around the edges you could use to plant some sure enough deer forage. It will only get better. 1000 acreas surrounding a nice field is worth the wait. Patience is a virtue Grasshopper. You start having a feud with a landowner over the way he's doing what he wants with "HIS" land...... you're going to loose. I'm sure there are plenty of others standing in line waiting for the lease. If he has ore acreage adjacent you might try for a "temporary swap", but I'd play nice.
I doubt he sprayed to produce a good dust bowl. He's going to put something there that'll probably attract a lot more critters your way. Be patient. Look at it this way, he's created a couple temporary bottlenecks for you. I wouldn't get too upset and high and mighty with the landlord over him farming his place. Find out what he intends to do with it. It's possible he'll leave a couple swaths around the edges you could use to plant some sure enough deer forage. It will only get better. 1000 acreas surrounding a nice field is worth the wait. Patience is a virtue Grasshopper. You start having a feud with a landowner over the way he's doing what he wants with "HIS" land...... you're going to loose. I'm sure there are plenty of others standing in line waiting for the lease. If he has ore acreage adjacent you might try for a "temporary swap", but I'd play nice.