I don't know how you guys can stand hunting up this way. I gave it up. Let me tell you why. I lived in Texas for 5 years and they way it si done down there is the way to go. Most hunters go in on a lease. What happens is that you lease hunting rights for a particular area from a rancher or farmer for X amount. I use to pay 475 a year for 2,500 acres that held deer, turkey, quail and dove. I paid another 175 per year to hunt duck at another lease. The leases were shared by the members of your group only. They were gated with 2 locks one for the farmer one for us. If we left the gate opened and a steer got killed it was on us. We had a cabin on one site and slept outsied on the other. Some weekends I was the only guy at the lease.
When I moved back up here about 10 years ago. I went with a buddy and my dog Chester to a spot in Arcadia park in RI that was stocked with pheasants. It was opening day, what a specticle. A sea of dogs and oragned hats. It was crazy. guys fighting for postion and dogs sniffing each other. I left my gun and dog in the truck and sat down on a rock to watch the action. Kind of like sitting at a boat ramp to wacth the Googans. The birds were slaughtered in short order and "hunters" were arguing over who's kill it was. I left and went to the Maples for breakfast. I got home oiled the guns and put them away, sadly where they sit today 10 years later.
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Like my friend Brent for West Texas tells me "There's too many people and too little room up there".
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