My situation is I leased up a lot of acres but had I not leased the property it wouldn't have went to regular Joe's, I have one landowner of 20,000 acres and had I not leased the ground I leased, it would have went to an outfitter that would have hammered the ground to make a profit. The only people that were hunting these properties prior to me obtaining these properties was an outfitter until 2010 and a ton of trespassers. I still deal with the trespassers every day. There are options with my properties though, if a guy wants to hunt on one of my farms he can pay a trespass fee and hunt it. The fact of the matter in this day and age if you don't pay to hunt or own your own ground it puts a lot of us in a no-hunt situation. This is the reason I ended up with the ground I have. I hate calling myself an outfitter but the title goes with the fact I have to apply for a license that calls me that so I can allow hunter's to hunt the properties and also so that I can afford to pay for it. I understand what you are saying but in some instances it would have been a no-hunt situation whether the property got leased or not. Unless that person is a lawless hunter which is the only people that had access to the ground I leased up. It has become the sad world that we live in unfortunately, when I was a kid I could hunt thousands of acres with a handshake. That is just not the world we live in.
