Originally Posted by Alamosa
Originally Posted by horse1
Originally Posted by callnum
Shrap only hunts private and if you notice only shoots what he can drive to. His opinion and experiences really don't matter. He hunts in a vacuum.


I don't understand how living and hunting the same state your whole life and being able to cultivate relationships that allow you opportunity somehow renders your opinions and experiences invalid. There are things that can be bought and others that can only be earned. The things that must be earned seem to really make the "buyers" of the world indignant.


Don't you think that gaining access to ranches is in the 'bought' category wheras pushing into remote areas of public land is more in the 'earned' category?


Helping with roundups, spring calf work, fall immunizations and preg-checking, and fixing fence then being allowed access isn't exactly what I'd throw into the "bought" category.

I've helped with spring planting and fall harvest from driving trucks, moving equipment, ferrying grain carts, trimming trees, and parts/tool-runner bitch for a guy I know in northern MN and have 'Carte Blanche access to land I could never hunt for any amount of $$. I'll cash that in next fall when my daughter is old enough to participate in MN's youth deer season. I know a fair few landowners who wound't grant access for any amount of $$, but, it can be earned.

I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.