Doc Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Your going to have to find a way to deal with it. That situation just is not going to get any better.......ever! Even areas that are not being developed are being denied for hunting access. Urban dwellers with pocketfuls of money are moving out into rural areas, buying and posting large tracts of land. Many of these people are still under the influence of Bambi and are not allowing any hunting at all on their new holdings. Others are influenced by thei uneducated views on guns and property owner legal liabilities and are locking their property up over those issues. Still others have had unhappy experiences with hunters on their property and have taken steps to protect themselves and their property. More and more farmers are being forced out of business, or are getting to retirement age, and using their land as their retirement pension. Without any interested kids to take over the farm, who can blame them. More and more hunters are turning large amounts of prime habitat into commercial hunting ventures and are fencing, posting and patroling former open hunting grounds. And, of course as you already mentioned, development is happening everywhere. Absolutely, there will come a time when the only hunting available to most hunters will be either public lands or "pay-to-hunt" commercial operations. We are already well on our way toward that now. It's a sad situation, but that is just the way it is. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_218 Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Re: To Many Hunters With No Place To Hunt The best answer to this problem is to buy your own hunting ground! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogdoc Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Re: To Many Hunters With No Place To Hunt I am sorry about your loss of hunting land. I guess this is a common situation across the country. I am very lucky and blessed. I was able to purchase 160 acres about 45 minutes from OKC so I will have hunting land for myself and my family. Best of luck finding new spots todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Re: To Many Hunters With No Place To Hunt yep, happening here in Ohio too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimT Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Re: To Many Hunters With No Place To Hunt Thats happening here also...Really bites. Going to have to head further west and north eveuantually probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY911Bowhunter Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Re: To Many Hunters With No Place To Hunt Your post echoes my predicament. Buyingland would be nice huh? Well with a 2 y/o, a new car, and a new house - I am busting my butt working ALL of my days off just to make a littl eextra scratch for Christmas and to get ahead - not nearly the cash to buy land in a town where it is selling for $20,000 an acre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Re: To Many Hunters With No Place To Hunt Vermont is no picnic either, so I guess I can hitch a ride on the same boat as everyone else... I have considered maybe getting a few buddies together and ask them if they would consider pooling are money for a good chunk of hunting property that we can hunt for the future to come...not making much money myself this seems to me to be the only logical solution for us to be able to hunt...I can't hunt Vtbowmans property forever.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Re: To Many Hunters With No Place To Hunt Too bad about losing your place to hunt. Cannot go wrong buying your own hunting property. Glad we bought ours, just wish we had more than we have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanH Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Re: To Many Hunters With No Place To Hunt Man that sure sucks man! I hope you can find something out there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaskMan Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Re: To Many Hunters With No Place To Hunt You could always move to Saskatchewan. You wouldn't be the first person to move here just to hunt whitetails, and that is the truth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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