How easy can one make it before it loses its fun? Sincere question

Cull me from the herd.

Golfers, freeloaders, moochers, wannabe deer experts, and crybabies don't care if I'm gone.

They'll just find something else to whine about that they're too lazy & cheap to do themselves.

Hey Swamp Living in town vs buying land is your choice. Game wardens don't make crap I understand that and it's a needed job. It's the ones that are jack wagons I don't like and that's been the majority.

Young girl buys her own tags for the first time at 18 now that she is not geting yout license goes bow hunting and shoots a 170. GW think it was her brother or dad that killed it and starts digging around bothering them. Turns out she bought the wrong tag being her first time doing it. She ran it through the on line tag system did everything right just made the simple mistake clear to see it was a mistake. Gw took her deer. She gave up hunting.

Cousins wife shot her largest buck it was running tword a road. farmers stoped and Un loaded on it from the road missed only shot that hit it was hers shot from the other side. GW was renting his house from the farmers that shot from the road and let them take her legal deer. and said we'll I didn't see them.shoot from.the road so can't prove they did. Clear blood trail was also over looked Cousin and wife had permission to hunt there. Farmer that shot from.the road didn't own the land farmer that did didn't want in the middle of the mess.

Cousin shot a nice buck that made it 20 yards across the property line where GW hunts. Can cleary see it is down and blood trail jealous gw was mad my cousin killed the buck he was hunting and wouldn't let him go get his deer..

So the few I have been around earn my opinion of them. it's not all of them but people general lump others into groups.
That said they know what's going.on an generaly have an inside track with land owners at least around.here.

Just becuese I have land and financial ability to spend money to hunt Does not make me puff up and say everyone should buy land or be willing to drive thousands of miles to hunt each year.

Maybe it's rembering making 20 to 30k a year and hunting in my back yard being to broke to use the gas to hunt vs driving to work And the 7 to 14 deer I shot each year was a big part of my eating well that makes me consider those not in my current good situation. And how the cost and limited access effects them.

The fun part is riding that tractor and doing things like planting food plots, etc....you know doing things that give back to the wildlife, instead of just taking all the time....like freeloaders and moochers do.

How about fishing....now there's a lot of money spent on boats..
Motors ...rods ,& Reels...fuel to and from ... tackle...

Just to catch a trout and release it....lol

Of course I could have gone to the Grocery store and bought

Wild trout...and invested that saved money in the stock market

And been a millionaire by now..

Ive spent more time on a tractor than most on here and can say sitting on a tractor ISNT hunting, it's farming and if u enjoy farming for wildlife that's cool but it isn't hunting.

I guess it's easy to group all GWs into one big (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman)hole bin. Oh well...to each his own. I've heard it all my career from every direction. It never ends...lol.

Me buy hunting land? That's always been my dream, but I'm 60 now and that's probably not gonna happen. Has a little something to do with 20% down and being able to make a large payment. I don't have that kind of money...never have and likely won't b4 Im dead.

Ive made sure I had access to deer hunting all my adult life. It hasn't been cheap, but I have no other hobbies (other than trapping and Ive used the proceeds from trapping to go deer hunting.)

The money I spend is for leasing the property, planting food plots, stands and other gear, tractor equipment, etc. Its simply hunting land management expenses.

Locals dumped some corn in front of the game warden's duck blind.
Then " tipped off" the Feds...

I was actually leasing ground almost 50 years ago.
Was $1/ acre back.then
Got priced out pretty quick, maybe mid 80s?

Been hunting state, Federal,my own, and friends and family land since

You’re kinda painting with a broad brush here, SW. Isn’t fair to call other hunters freeloaders because they don’t do it like you do.

Farming for wildlife. Yep...thats it. And riding the tractor is what it takes to get it done. There is a good feeling knowing you did something for the game you enjoy hunting.

Nobody does that in your area of Kansas?

Everybody does it here in the Deep South.

The freeloaders and moochers Im referring to are the one's that hunt free on private land (that they dont own).

Some of those folks are criticizing me for spending money on deer management when all they do is purchase a license (and even gripe about that) and shoot a deer that they have no investment in. Freeloaders!

in 1986 ! purchased a share in a hunting club, I own 1/450th of 13,400 acres, in 1992 I purchased a share in another club that contains 4,500 acres, these shares are mine and will be willed to someone when I'm dead.

That's a heckava co-op there. Nothing like that down here...that Im aware of.

Not too much. Around here there's wheat, beans, corn, milo and alfalfa most always within a half mile or less. But you didn't exactly answer my question about how easy can hunting get before it becomes not fun anymore. The actual weapon in hand hunting part

Geez, next we are gonna start calling compounds, bows

Aint real unless you’re paying top dollar for that property, planting crops so them horns grow real big, have some cameras up to name and catalog each deer, have a good ol high fence (just to keep the poachers out), drive on up to your favorite named stand cause your getting old and earned it, get that ol new compound out that got a 420IBO with the new rage, rangefinder in he scope sight rectifier and smoke that big ol buck like our forefathers. Post that up on the internet, good as gold

YesSir,
Do you bowhunt? If so, you already know the answer to your question.

I don’t "farm for wildlife" to make it easy to kill deer. If that supposedly makes it "easy" to kill deer then Ive never reached that point. Probably won't ever get there. But, it give me a feeling that Im giving something back to the deer.

Could I go out on my lease and just kill "a deer"? On most fall/winter days...yes. Can I go there and kill a mature buck on any given day...very unlikely. Usually only get a glimpse of 2, maybe 3, "shooters" during Georgia's entire 4 month season....on my lease.

The only high fences in my part of Georgia are put up around a few ag fields to keep deer out....so there's that.

I hunt public land a little (not every season), and the midwest on private lands past several seasons....so all my deer hunting is not on that "EASY" lease where a couple thousand dollars are spent annually and trillions of drops of sweat have rolled off my body so I could have at least a decent chance of taking a 100" 4year old buck....

...... Christ y'all making me happy I don't ever kill anything so I ain't gotta argue like this

All this aint about killing WD91.

Its about folks that complain about the cost of doing something they say they enjoy...but they really have other interests that override this hobby....so they just gripe about the costs to participate.

Hope that explains it.

Where did all yall go?....this was just getting good.

Maybe you should put a sign on your land saying freehunting anytime. I’m sure that you would have no problem giving back.