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- Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:22 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: Number of Hunters Falls, Worrying Some
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- Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: Number of Hunters Falls, Worrying Some
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2940
I worked as a National Park Ranger in one of the few Public Hunting Lands in the State of Texas. We were over run with hunters wanting a place to hunt and successful hunts were far and few between.
Why is there a decline in Hunting. When I was a kid, we'd take our shotguns and rifles to school with us and after class go deer, dove and quail hunting on the North Canadian River. A few years ago a State Judge gave all that public land back to the Land Owners on each side of the river. Also back in the 50s and 60s you could approach a land owner, explain to him that you are a safe hunter and would respect his land and property and they would give you permission to hunt. I used to go up to the Spearman and Perryton Areas and work for free on weekends with some of the land owners because they let us hunt Pheasants and Quail on their property.
Then Hunting and Leasing got to be big business. My wife's uncle lives outside of Bandera. He has a little over a section of land with two nice hunting cabins on it, besides his house. He leases the hunting rights and the use of the hunting cabins to a Corporation in Houston for well in excess of One Hundred Thousand a year and they write it off as an enterainment expense. The ones it entertains is the CEO and CFO and thier families.
I bought a car from a young man the other day and he and three of his employees are leasing land from land owners to hunt on here in the Panhandle. They are paying over Five Thousand Dollars apiece for the Hunting Rights to the land they lease.
Maybe somebody can explain to me how a man or woman of average means is suppose to take their sons and daughters and expose them to the joy of hunting.
And folks wonder why there is a reduction in the number of hunters.
Me, I beleive that my grandchildren will see it come to pass where the only Hunting in US and Texas is done by the "Royality" as it is in Great Britian.
And that will be the end of the Second Admendment for the US.
Jungle Work
Why is there a decline in Hunting. When I was a kid, we'd take our shotguns and rifles to school with us and after class go deer, dove and quail hunting on the North Canadian River. A few years ago a State Judge gave all that public land back to the Land Owners on each side of the river. Also back in the 50s and 60s you could approach a land owner, explain to him that you are a safe hunter and would respect his land and property and they would give you permission to hunt. I used to go up to the Spearman and Perryton Areas and work for free on weekends with some of the land owners because they let us hunt Pheasants and Quail on their property.
Then Hunting and Leasing got to be big business. My wife's uncle lives outside of Bandera. He has a little over a section of land with two nice hunting cabins on it, besides his house. He leases the hunting rights and the use of the hunting cabins to a Corporation in Houston for well in excess of One Hundred Thousand a year and they write it off as an enterainment expense. The ones it entertains is the CEO and CFO and thier families.
I bought a car from a young man the other day and he and three of his employees are leasing land from land owners to hunt on here in the Panhandle. They are paying over Five Thousand Dollars apiece for the Hunting Rights to the land they lease.
Maybe somebody can explain to me how a man or woman of average means is suppose to take their sons and daughters and expose them to the joy of hunting.
And folks wonder why there is a reduction in the number of hunters.
Me, I beleive that my grandchildren will see it come to pass where the only Hunting in US and Texas is done by the "Royality" as it is in Great Britian.
And that will be the end of the Second Admendment for the US.
Jungle Work