When you lease the hunting rights on a piece of ground, the only thing you know for sure is that you will lose it at some point. We lost our Mule Deer ranch in the Big Bend about four years ago after having it for about fifteen years. Then about three years ago I lost the Whitetail pasture I had leased for twenty five years here at home.
Change in ownership was the reason in both cases. I didn’t get outbid, they just quit leasing.
I have about a quarter section I can hunt about three miles from the house. My two kids heired it from their mother so I’m likely to keep it.
If hunting is not important enough to you to pay what it takes to lease good property.....that’s fine. But it is chickenshit to badmouth those of us to whom it IS important. Even when I go to another state to hunt, I pay to hunt private land.
I tried public land hunts in N Mexico and Colorado years ago and killed deer both times, but knowing there were idiots prowling the same area I was hunting took all the joy out of it.
And yeah, Hanco, I feel your pain having to move all that stuff. BTDT.
