Paradise725
Well-Known Member
Yesterday I ran into the landowner of a property I hunted a lot growing up and in college. It was a couple miles from my house and around 120 acres of mostly crops. She told me that I was welcome to come back and hunt anytime, just to give her a call beforehand. She explained how they had let numerous people hunt the place since I stopped hunting it and finally had to close it to hunting altogether. One man they let hunt had a tree stand accident and had to be life flighted out of their crop field (he’s fine now). Then they let the farmer who leases the ground for crops hunt it and here is where it gets interesting:
She said there were two things that drove them to close the property to hunting. The first was that the farmer basically let too many people come and hunt the property, and they always parked in a very visible spot that made the landowners feel like the property was being overused. The most interesting point she made was that the hunters would always be driving very nice expensive trucks. The landowner stated that “if they can afford to drive around in trucks like that then why can’t they afford to buy their own farm to hunt?” That’s a perspective that I’ve never considered. For people hunting for free/ permission only, if you roll up in a $60k truck with lift kit, wheels, exhaust, etc you might be making the wrong impression. I don’t think the expensive trucks were necessarily the straw that broke the camels back, but it definitely made it easier for them to cut those people off knowing they had the means to buy or lease their own ground for hunting.
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She said there were two things that drove them to close the property to hunting. The first was that the farmer basically let too many people come and hunt the property, and they always parked in a very visible spot that made the landowners feel like the property was being overused. The most interesting point she made was that the hunters would always be driving very nice expensive trucks. The landowner stated that “if they can afford to drive around in trucks like that then why can’t they afford to buy their own farm to hunt?” That’s a perspective that I’ve never considered. For people hunting for free/ permission only, if you roll up in a $60k truck with lift kit, wheels, exhaust, etc you might be making the wrong impression. I don’t think the expensive trucks were necessarily the straw that broke the camels back, but it definitely made it easier for them to cut those people off knowing they had the means to buy or lease their own ground for hunting.
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