Lol!
The truth is coming out.

Golfers!

Im not gonna add anything else to this thread. Yall doing it for me.

Im heading down to the lease to feed the bluegill in the cypress pond there. Yep....I spend any potential golf money on fish food too....lol

By gosh u were right

I can guarantee y’all one thing. Patrick doesn’t need food plots or cameras to kill nice deer. He’s hunted up here for 16 years and has taken a nice buck home every year except one. No food plots, no cameras, no shooting houses. Just blocks of bottomland hardwood timber and woodsmanship. To do that consistently with a bow in a 5 day or shorter hunt is mighty impressive in my opinion.

Have you ever heard anyone say “I wish I wouldn’t have bought that land”?
How many times have you heard someone say “I sure wish I would have bought that land”?
Lol
Ive never had one ounce of regret in buying the tracts of land that I own, but I’ve got lots of regrets on the ones I came up with excuses for not buying.

Knocking someone for managing their land to improve the wildlife habitat/hunting is mighty ridiculous. Jealousy is an ugly thing.

My passion for hunting is taking kids out and teaching them. Neighbor kid should be old enough this year to really learn the ways of the woods, last year he got his boot stuck in the pond and dropped the spot light in the water so I handed him the .22 while I got his boot and looked for the spot light, as I'm handing him his boot he almost shot me in the foot with the .22!

Plus I don't think he was pulling out his half of the deer...

Where’s Uncle jbyrd when you need him!

Who was knocking anyone for owning land?? I must have missed that post. U guys are a sensitive bunch when it comes to talking about what the commercialization of hunting has done.

This group has some good points. I disagree with a few of their beliefs, but overall they are solid.


https://www.huntquietly.org/

2x on the buying land and glad I did. And 1000x on not buying 3 tracks I should have and now have many new houses. Keep me from shooting a varsity yesterday when I remembered there are housed over that way now even though it was well below the crest of my hill and I had a good back stop.

WOW JUST WOW!
Sounds like a city slicker that just found out about plowing, disking and planting.
Trouble is it was just to attract deer. doesn't know anything about growing crops.
Reminds me of the city slicker that bough 80 acres at a FHA auction of a foreclosed farm.
Hunted on all the neighbors property and would come off their property to run them off his.
Same city slicker bragged to me when I caught him hunting on property he had no permission to hunt.
That he stocked pen raised quail on the property.
Medicated birds turned loose into wild birds.
Turkey flock disappeared in a year.
There's more to wild life and farming than most people have any idea of!
Do what you do, but don't start calling names.

Ohio Wolverine,
You should read this entire thread before entering your 2 cents worth.

I did , just what I feel is fact!

I agree with grampa on this. (lol)
I fed my family for years on just a little bit of gas money, a few boxes of ammo and reasonable licence fees.

Bunch of dang women in a barber shop in this thread! Good lord , do what you please. Everything is expensive if ya haven’t noticed, just gotta keep on keepin on! Hunt how you want, ought not fight amongst ourselves.

And don’t bash the landowners, ranchers and farmers.

I've paid to deer hunt most of my life. Just the cost of doing business I guess. What I hate about leases is that farmers will lease to duck hunters but because it is leased they can't even allow you to go and kick up a rabbit or shoot a squirrel. That small game hunting that most kids, at least when I was coming up, cut their teeth on.

Is it true what I heard? The vast majority of fly fishermen only do it because they suck at golf? lol

That's a fact, it just takes more opportunity away from many people.

Very different here.
Highly suburbanized. Very few large properties over 10 acres. Only a few farms still here.

Baiting is legal in my county and another county nearby. The DEP ( Department of Environmental Protection ) wants you to go out and wack em and stack em. Too many deer here and no place to hunt them.

Pooching deer here is kinda common , but kept quiet. 99% of that is trespass hunting with no permission.

The game wardens kinda look the other way unless pushed to stop it. They know the deer population needs to be culled back a bit. Plus we have few game wardens here and they are kept busy going after an endangered snail or something.

You sir have no clue about me, but if you truly read this thread you'd learn a little more.

I was planting plots for deer in the late 80s. Im not a farmer....never claimed to be. Dont have to be a farmer to enjoy riding a tractor bush hogging logging roads, disking and planting plots, etc.I do my best deer scouting from the seat of a tractor when mowing woods roads and access trails.

Ive spent my entire life in the woods involved in some sort of wildlife and land management here in southern Georgia. Food plots, road maintenance, controlled burning, supplemental feeding, etc. Yep..have spent thousands of dollars of my $$ on this and assisted other landowners/leasors with their wildlife management activities.

Obtained my wildlife degree in the 90s, was hired by the state as a GW. I captured the last wild turkeys in the late 90s with a cannon net that Georgia used for our restocking program Ive captured several nuisance bears at beeyards and tranq'd them and relocated/released them. I was the state GW instructor that trained new Ga GWs how to locate & apprehend illegal trappers. I could go on an on.

Since Ive retired, the state contracted with me to collect deer lymph nodes across southern Ga for our CWD detection program. Last November, a buck I sampled was Ga's first known CWD positive deer.

To say Im some city slicker wannabe deer manager is laughable.

The so called name calling you're referring to from me are those that hunt on another's land free and then complains when they lose that free option and then the same ones have the audacity to call me out for leasing, food plotting, etc. Leasing has been amd remains my only option to stay in the woods as much as I want. My lease is 2 miles from my residence. This is the 25th year Ive enjoyed that tract of land.

Due to being retired, I go to my lease EVERY day. When I was working, I was in the woods or on the river, every day also....but I was getting paid then. Now I just spend money on something I love dearly...lol

Wildlife and land management is fun!!!

I enjoy seeing stuff growing for the deer & turkeys that I planted (and seeing that they're utilizing it) about as much as I enjoy seeing dried, clean, brushed pelts hanging in my fur room at the end of fur season.

Just an inexperienced "city slicker"! Lol

Ive done more wildlife management work in a month than most folks have in their entire lives.

And..STILL LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT! Even though I have to pay & sweat to play.

Many beavers, coyotes, coons, etc have died and paid for 99% of all this.