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January 1, 2018, 11:17 PM | #76 |
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In my area the only thing the government could reasonably do would be to provide land owners with immunity from civil liability if allowing hinters to hunt from free.
The state already has an EXCELLENT release written, but indemnity would go a long way towards loosening things up. Yeah I could knock on every door asking for permission. Spending days driving miles around the county. I could pay a couple hundred dollars for a lease. It is really hard to justify such expense on top of days scouting and equipment expenses when I can buy beef for less money and not spend all the time. My wife is a pretty reasonable woman IMO, but telling her I took ten days, which even at a crap part time job near mnimum wage would be close to $1000 lost earnings, to hunt, , scout, and get permission; then spent a couple hundred dollars driving around(gas+depreciation), fifty more on equipment and supplies. $100 for butcher or half a day of us working together to process. And I brought home $3-400 worth of meat. That would just makes me look stoopid. Let alone if I didn't bring any meat home. My wife certainly wouldn't try to justify a similar expenditure. I spent most of this hunting season turning on my lathe. Last edited by johnwilliamson062; January 1, 2018 at 11:30 PM. |
January 2, 2018, 12:30 AM | #77 |
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Hunting, a verb oddly enough, I usually associate verbs with action. However, in this case it typically means sitting on your rear waiting for a semi domesticated deer to walk up to its feeder before shooting it and taking it to be processed. Might as well go to a feed lot and ask to pick out and shoot a cow.
If somebody could show me a different/more sporting way to hunt, that didn't cost more than I paid for my car, you bet I'd be interested, but I'll leave domesticating deer to others. |
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I was knocking on doors in 1995 and on ..... I got turned down sometimes, but I was Sociable and persistent ....sometimes folks died* .... but I knew their kids and grandkids because in some cases, the kid answered the door and a dozen years later I was askin' him for permission, b'cause dad and mom had passed on.... Quote:
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again, I sense a trend here ...... and I think that trend is short term thinking.... "equipment expenses"? A gun and a knife ....and if you are on this forum, it's likely you have a selection of those .... everybody needs a break .... mine is Firearm Deer Season ....and if you are telling me that you work even 300 days a year, I'm callin' BS. I make time ..... but you do what you want ... as for "a couple hundred dollars driving around" ..... stop road hunting and stay on stand ...... you couldn't find enough ground to hunt on and now that you found some, you are driving around aimlessly? as for depreciation ...... the newest vehicle in this household is a 2010 .... there ain't no appreciable depreciation .... the rig I took hunting this year was my 1996 F150 extended cab ..... it's the same thing I've been driving down there since 1998 .... everybody has their priorities, I guess .... *my dad called me and told me he bought a house in a town right close to where I hunt, and asked if I'd come out and help him move..... I said, "Great!" and he proceeded to tell me all about it ...... when we rolled up in th U-Haul I realized I had been there before... knocked on the door to ask an elderly lady for permission to hunt .... she owned the place I wanted to go alright ....but leased it to a local farmer and directed me to him for permission ..... |
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[QUOTE]Hunting, a verb oddly enough, I usually associate verbs with action. However, in this case it typically means sitting on your rear waiting for a semi domesticated deer to walk up to its feeder before shooting it and taking it to be processed. Might as well go to a feed lot and ask to pick out and shoot a cow.
Baiting is illegal (and pointless) in my state. Illegal because hunters told the NGPC it was unethical (Yay! Local Control!) Pointless because there are millions of bushels of corn and soybeans and milo either standing in the fields or piled on the ground from October thru January ...... dumping a bushel of corn , or even a truckload wouldn't matter at all ..... think dumping a gallon of water in the middle of Lake Superior .... thinking that will attract some fish ..... |
January 2, 2018, 11:18 AM | #80 |
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My grand daughter like's to shoot now and then but no interest in hunting. My grandson is six and not really hot about shooting even. Their mother is a person that has never even shot a gun until she met my son. Now she does go out now and then and shoot. Even has a few of her own gun's, bought for her by my son! I am afraid my grandson may be lost also. He like's to sit in front of the TV and play those computer games.
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Unless a person has ready access to hunting land, it's difficult to bring others into what would be a New Thing. That's a major problem, absent a fairly fat billfold.
Then there is the societal aspect of competing interests. The "real" outdoors competes with TV and computer games. For young people, the misinformation present in public schools doesn't offer reasons to learn about the realities of nature and the outdoors. I don't really have an answer... |
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If I didn't have public land access in Colorado, I wouldn't be hunting. However, watching my kids/neighbor kids grow up playing various flavors of Xbox or PlayStation, i notice that: 1. They mistake thumb skills for life skills. 2. They mistake game tactics for real life tactics. 3. Their patience level drops the more they play. How are you going to keep them down on the farm when they are so good they can get to level 3 without missing once?
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Plan is to buy a property outside city limits in three years. That should make it easier. Eliminate all the transport costs for one. Last edited by johnwilliamson062; January 3, 2018 at 10:48 PM. |
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^^^This. When I was a kid, I could hunt any piece of property as far as I could walk in a day. Come deer season, after first day folks would group up and make drives that were whole sections wide, covering a dozen different farmsteads. Now those same farmsteads/land is considered"recreational" and has access to only a few who either own it or lease it. Both are costly. We are fortunate in the area/my state to have a bountiful public land resource. Not all sates areas are so fortunate. Not having a place to hunt, keeps a hunter from hunting.
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January 6, 2018, 09:24 AM | #85 |
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Unfortunately, hunting is becoming a gentleman's game. Land access is very limited in many areas. I see no real solution to the problem.
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January 6, 2018, 09:30 AM | #86 |
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^ it’s only a problem to those who don’t own land or are in the business of selling licenses
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January 6, 2018, 12:36 PM | #87 |
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It's not just owning land, it's owning enough to hunt. That isn't very many people.
In PA, I don't think a basic hunting license is prohibitively expensive. It's all the extras (furbearer, muzzleloader, archery, antlerless, bear, etc..) that really jack up the price. I am a fisherman and my fishing license costs more than my hunting license. I think cultural changes and commercialism are major factors in the decline of hunting.
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When a tiny minority are the only people doing a thing, that thing will be vulnerable: Look at fox hunting in England. There are large sections of the American population that know nothing about hunting, and would not be upset if it were outlawed.... there are smaller groups that are upset that you are hunting, and they are vocal, well financed, and organized. They have already succeeded in making it a serious crime in some areas to put your own dog down ..... if you want to keep hunting, you aught to ensure it remains popular ...... "We must all hang together, or surely they will hang us separately. |
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January 6, 2018, 07:06 PM | #89 |
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NRA Says We Must Stop the Decline of Hunting
I have a friend who retired moved out to the country lives on 20 acres they got 4 deer this year, the big farms have become a patchwork of smaller plots but the deer don’t honor property lines.
Yeah a lot is posted but there’s still deer moving because the habitat has become more suitable to them than the large hay or crop fields that used to be there. Doesn’t matter if it’s a dog or deer there always a way to dispatch with attracting attention. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
January 6, 2018, 09:50 PM | #90 |
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From post #25
""The biggest threat to public land hunting is in the west. Access to millions of acres of public owned land is blocked by private land owners."" Just drive across ND and MT-over 80% your land and mine. Barbed wire fence on both sides of highways for THOUSANDS of miles. |
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NRA is wrong
The world is changing, a lot since the NRA was founded almost 150 years ago.
Hunting, like buggy whips of the time, simply doesn't have the need it did then, as I expect very few meals today in the US are the result of hunting compared to the total. And the trend of shrinking and fewer hunting venues isn't going to change going forward. Like brick and mortar stores, NRA needs to find and focus on its relevance in today's world as Amazon has, and not try to revive the glory days of yesteryear. It ain't hunting guys.
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NRA needs to understand trends and who their customers are today and tomorrow.
It may be as you suggest, or not but the trend I see is making hunting increasingly more expensive and less productive. Virtually none of my peers who hunted in our teens still do.
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It's hard to get young folks involved in hunting. This is doubly true for young folks whose parents do not hunt. i introduced several teenagers to hunting with their parents permission. Was advised by many: "Don't do that you will get sued if "something happens".
A couple of these teenagers had never fired a firearm. i introduced them to rifles and gave a firearms safety and marksmanship course, one person at a time. Those five teenagers are now grown up and all continue to hunt: Most have families. One made enough money selling wild hogs to pay for a four year college degree. He is a US Army special operations officer. When he comes to town i'm the first person he sees after his parents. |
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Many young people are very much about instant gratification. When I encounter something difficult, I tend to step up to the challenge. I don't like being told or thinking that I can't do something. I want to prove that I can. I'm having a very hard time instilling this in my kids and it is very frustrating. It isn't that they aren't smart or strong willed, or hard working, but they apply it to life very differently. They are however kids and that is to be expected. It is my current challenge (duty, really) to teach them to accept challenges and rise to the occasion not because they have to, but because they want to. Technology and society today work against those character traits IMO and are weakening future generations.
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A lot of people won't hunt or won't stay involved with hunting specifically because it can be hard to accomplish. It can be hard to own your own land to hunt. It can be hard to find a lease within a reasonable distance that you can afford. It can be hard to make it to the lease for your recreational hunting time because so many other things in life get in the way of committing that much time. Most hunters aren't hunting out of necessity. It is recreational. In fact, the meat gained by a lot of those recreational hunters is really expensive on a per pound basis. Most of your hunters are doing to be your deer, duck, quail hunters who have season limited time constraints who obtain a limited amount of resources. Many are just trophy hunters, first, and the meat is secondary. Most anybody that has a job and family isn't likely to have a lot of time to spend going door to door to ask landowners for permission to hunt (free or paid). It is hard work to do and getting turned down is more often the norm than the exception. So no only is it hard, but discouraging. I understand that it is sad that so many landowners have learned that they can earn income from leasing their land for hunting, earning extra money to support their families. It is sad that so few landowners are willing to allow strangers free access to their land to hunt. Of course, so many of them have gotten burned in the past by hunters who failed to take care of the property, left open gates, left trash, shot livestock, etc. You can blame $$ for ruining hunting, but should also blame a lot of the hunters who have ruined it for the rest of us by not being good borrowers of other peoples' lands.
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