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Just like it.

Lease hunting.

Just like it.

As you well know, ive been blessed. Got you to trail one for me didnt He?

And, you know i know Hes blessed you too.

Never did that, but I have found a place about an hour away that has trophy deer only hunts with very limited hunter numbers. Not cheap, but nothing like Texas or one of the big-buck states. Will likely try it in the next few years. Ain't getting any younger, and dragging a deer for a mile or so and throwing it in the trunk gets tougher every year.

In the meantime, we have lots of public land here. Took two deer with a crossbow last season about 20 minutes fom home, and passed on a few meat deer during the rifle season. It's very unlikely that I'll ever see a big buck there, let alone shoot one, but except for weekends and the rifle opener, not that many people hunt there, so it's practically all mine a lot of the time.

Good job. As dad always told me, "You cant eat the horns".

Not everyone is blessed at birth with those opportunities, and many can’t or choose not to leave their place of birth. Within 4 hours of our place, we can cover most of your hunting opportunities plus....Bison, antelope, wolves, and grizzlies ( though stopped by liberal judges), and lions. I was fortunate to get a job 1800 miles from my birthplace, and with some sacrifices....provided myself with the same opportunities that some are born with!

We all try to make the best of what opportunities we are presented with. Different doesn’t make it wrong.....just different! memtb

SandBilly, I’m guessing, when you wake in the morning......you’ll still be clueless! memtb

Oldman3....Your question is a fair question and certainly one I’ve considered. As I stated in my post, limitations as far as health, etc are a good reason for one to adapt to a different style of hunting. Disabled hunters here are allowed special concessions as far as access and modes of transportation allowed so even guys that are severely disabled are still able to hunt, albeit not in the manner I described earlier. I’ve got a place up north and could boat into areas virtually untouched and hunt from the beaches (not the boat) during the right times. There’s a lot of options and I couldn’t address them all here but if I was forced to lease and hunt from a stand over a feeder I’d probably just fish full time and let my boys do the heavy lifting. 😁. That day will come eventually and I’ll have to cross that bridge when the time comes. Everyone has to decide for themselves when it’s time to hang up the backpack and boots. I certainly support the adaptations that allow disabled hunters to continue to pursue their passion and have the utmost respect for those that refuse to quit.

I am not passing judgment on anyone that has to lease ground for any number of reasons. I suppose if I wasn’t spoiled by the wilderness I’d be happy to hunt in any way that was needed to.

Keep telling yourself whatever you need to, to make yourself feel like a real hunter.

Go buy a bag of corn tomorrow, you’ll feel better.

Or maybe you can post a pic of 5 doe you shot in the gut at 50 yards and had dogs track down for you?

Agreed!

For you know it alls about hunting private land AND PAYING FOR THE PRIVILIGE , what in hell makes you think we can’t, or don’t, hunt just like you ? Difference is that I don’t have to apply for a particular section and hope I get drawn and keep doing it year after year to get enough points. And I can go and scout anytime it suits me.

And the game is wary since they don’t enjoy ten months out of the year with no humans around. And if I let a buck walk, there’s not a guy a half mile away that’s gonna kill him.

There’s no rule that says you have to put up corn feeders. I killed more deer before they became common than I have since. I don’t own a four wheeler and never have.

Y’all think you’re building yourself up by tearing someone else down.

You’re not. You’re just showing your ass.

Several people have given the impression that every lease hunter sets in a box stand over a feeder. That's not entirely correct. I'm sure lots of people do, but lots of people dont. I have a feeder on my own property and I feed the deer and yes, there is a stand 175 yds from the feeder that I take pics from. I also will let young kids take their first deer from this stand, mostly nieces and nephews. One deer only and then you have to hunt like the rest of us. That is the only stationary stand that I own. I have 1 ladder stand, 1 loc-on stand, and 6 climbing stands. I also use a pirogue to get into the bottoms where its too far for the road hunters to walk. Spending the day in the bottom is about as good as it gets.

Just because you hunt a lease doesn't mean you dont have to hunt. I'm not sure I'd be very good at setting on a mountain side, looking thru a spotting scope, trying to spot deer or whatever over a big area.... never tried it. But put me in the woods, where you cant see 100 yds in any direction, pick out the best place(s) to hunt in 5000 acres, and then your in my kind of hunting. A few yds one way or the other can be the difference in being successful or not. There isn't any 500 or 400 or 300 yd shots, very few 200 yd shots, and most shots are 100 yd or less. You have to get up close, learn to stalk, be quiet, use the wind, etc. Not saying its any harder than the kind of hunting you do, just different.

Getting old or hurt really hampers the hunting. I'm both, but getting in the pirogue and paddling a couple miles will get me away from everyone. Then climbing a stand and setting there while waiting for a deer or hog is the way I do it, but be sure you're in a good place or you're wasting your time.

I wish I had had the opportunity to try your kind of hunting when I was younger. I know it's very different from what I do and I'm guessing its a lot of fun.

Fella, you make it a point to show your ass here everyday. The same as Leroy and Paddler. Figured you turned in your guns, like a good lil commie.

Dang, no, never had a lease too lose, but, why did those guys cut the pines, get the wind right and sneak in after em, that's the fun part.

Curdog is no commie. More like a hardheaded Westmoreland or Patton.

Or John McCain.

Lost a great duck and goose lease when the owner died and his SIL booted everybody off. Never found one as good as the place we lost but if you don't own it then sooner or later it will be gone.

Nope. No deep state traitor who would sell us out for billions.

He just cant see a pussy grabber in the WH.

Imho, he has his requirements and accepts no less.

I accept that God changed Saul to Paul and that God used the heathen King Cyrus and God has changed Trump from a pussy grabbing Clinton pal dimocrap into a nation loving leader and believer. There are scriptures referring to the same metamorphosis but i cant find them now.

Can’t remember gut shooting a doe...but I do recall gut shooting a little bull elk, that I jumped in the timber. Wasn’t my proudest moment, required a second shot. For quite a few years I hunted elk, like I hunted deer in Louisiana...the thicker the timber the better. No feeders, no stands, no fences, and on foot....a little different than your preconceived concept of lease hunting. Just like hunting in the west, not all hunting is the same! Of course, you already knew that! memtb