RE: When an outfitter is close by, it makes you think differently
 

Outfitters sooner or later will outbid any of us who might have a lease. Just NO way we will be able to compete with them, and the big money they have available. The only way most of us will be able to hunt private land is if we were to own it. I just don't say any other way. Even if it is a small parcel of land I would highly recommend that we all try buying some in the near future before prices go even higher because that will be our one and only hope of assuring ourselves of a place to hunt in the future.

RE: When an outfitter is close by, it makes you think differently
 

Unfortunately, many folks (including me) were spending their money on everything but land. By the time that most noticed that there was much less access to land, it had gotten too expensive for many to buy. 15 years ago when it was $800 an acre, you could have bought a nice piece for the price of a new pick-up truck. But now its $2000 or much much more and is out of reach for most folks, unless they really save, go deep in debt, or sell off lots of expensive toys.

RE: When an outfitter is close by, it makes you think differently
 

If I did that, I'd be doing exactly what I am against.;)

Though I am not crazy about leasing........I have nothing against a hunter paying a farmer for the rights to hunt if that is what it takes to have a place to hunt. I've not had to do that, but for how much longer I will have places for my son and I to hunt....who knows.

DD....I understand what you are saying, but these three guys who are running their operation are not poor by any means. In fact they farm quite a bit of ground, run a bird hunting operation(pen raised birds ranging from quail, pheasant, and chuckar), and for the last few years have expanded into deer. In fact in '05 a couple guys from the Wild Outdoors hunting show both shot nice bucks within minutes of each other.

RE: When an outfitter is close by, it makes you think differently
 

I dont like the outfitters that do that eitherand when they are charging what they are charging they are doing more then trying to feed their families. Greed is more like it.I know what its all about because my friend used to guideand he didnt charge a huge chunk of money. He got what he needed to get by and that was that. $500.00 a week for deer, $650.00 for bear.After taxes and expenses its not that much in his pocket.. But where he made out was filling his lodge every week of the season. He just loved being out there doing that stuff. What better job then doing what you love. It is a lot of work Ill give them that but when they push people off land theyve hunted for years thats where you start to get P.O.