I have learned to living where everything is posted to start asking early and scouting well before season. Been getting permission for the last 2 weeks for the up coming early goose season and regular season.
I sure hope that stays as easy as it is now for you. I live in WY and good luck finding private ground without paying $$$$$! All of the mom and pop ranches have been slowly eaten up by the big ones owned by millionaires who charge $5k to shoot a cow elk and $10k to shoot a bull. I’m not just talking big game. Waterfowl is just as bad, you are not getting on a field unless you are the leaser. Bright spot out here is there is a ton of public land, some is over run with hunters and small animals, but there are diamonds in the rough if you are lucky enough to find them!
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couldn’t agree with you more!!! I’ve dealt with more rude hunters over the years that make it easy to tell everyone else to GTFO. According to many on here because your yard isn’t posted with signed signs I should be able to walk in whenever I want and shoot squirrels or rabbits. I’m thinking if walked onto anyone’s 1 acre yard and starting looking for things to hunt, the cops would be there instantly. But because the greedy land owners have so much they are obligated to share. Some really messed up thinking.
Maybe people wouldn’t have to think that way if hunters had more
public land to hunt! Too bad there will
never be anymore public land than there is now in ND. Honestly it is a shame how the state is held hostage to the Anti hunting Farm Bureau and their cronies…….. the BLM out here just bought a couple huge pristine ranches that will now be open to
the public for ALL of us to use! Going to be an exciting fall to find some new deer and antelope spots! Sportsmen overwhelmingly applauded the purchase, you won’t see that ever happen in ND!
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The guides and outfitters and the YouTube video makers and TV shows making coin off the “publicly owned wildlife” fucked it up for everyone. I firmly believe that and haven’t ever heard an argument to convince me otherwise. They screwed up access. They screwed up landowner/hunter relationships, they screwed up everything. I know some of you on here are involved in that too and my thoughts aren’t popular among you.
But it’s true. You decided that your own personal financial gain was worth taking the opportunity to do what you love AWAY FROM OTHERS. A lot of great things get sacrificed for the almighty dollar. Add hunting to the list.
I don’t think these people who do that on public land are to blame as that land is open to all of us. It is the hunting on private land that is getting monetized and reducing access in the name of the almighty dollar. The rich realize they can own their own and wham, they scoop
it all up and kick off all the people who have asked permission for years. People are not buying land anymore to make money off the land, they are overpaying pricing the average joe and farmer from doing the same where as they need it to make financial sense. It is really a shame what this country will become……