re: Do We Really Need More Hunters?

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along with conservation groups don’t work together to purchase or lease private ground in order to create more quality opportunities.

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Where would that be? Where would a large section of land, that isn’t already hunted, be for them to do that? If it was available there would be someone already leasing it.

Talking about the American Prarie reserve thing?

I like the idea and the guys got a good pitch. It all seems prohibitively expensive until you consider that a 5M acre conservatory would cost less than a new pro football stadium. Really puts it into perspective.

I think the issue is your average dude who is a hunter and / or rancher inherently doesn't want anything to do with other people.

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I can’t afford to pay $1 per pound.

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What are you eating at home? Sale paper ground meat is $3.49. NOTHING in life is free. We all have to make choices to prioritize goods, services, and activities in life. Any recreational activity has a cost associated. It is up to YOU to figure out a way to do the things you want.

Comments on this thread are whining because shite isn’t free. This is just another example of our society’s slide toward communism…on a hunting board.

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What are you eating at home? Sale paper ground meat is $3.49. NOTHING in life is free. We all have to make choices to prioritize goods, services, and activities in life. Any recreational activity has a cost associated. It is up to YOU to figure out a way to do the things you want.

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Yeah I know. Everything has a cost. And breaking into hog hunting when I have to pay to show up, pay for my son to show, pay $1 per pound of every hog I shoot, and then more money if i want to take it somewhere to process is expensive. Yes I could do it, but don’t bullshite me like I’m already spending that much money on bacon at the store.

Whether you like it or not, hunting is very expensive for the casual person who’d like to pop some hogs but doesn’t already own property. Unlike fishing, for example, which is easily accessible to anyone.

So if we need more hunters for conservation, then we need more accessible land. I don’t have a solution bc I’m not a communist calling for the government to confiscate private property. But there’s the problem

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Comments on this thread are whining because shite isn’t free. This is just another example of our society’s slide toward communism…on a hunting board.

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A communist would want the government to confiscate private property. Nobody is calling for that. OP is about how habitat is shrinking, the quality of a public land hunting experience has decreased, and the cost of hunting land is going up. which are all interrelated topics.

Squawking that “shite isn’t free derp derp” is a childish macho statement that doesn’t address anything in any meaningful way.

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I took my son on a quick hog hunt just to try it out at a ranch near Seguin. All told it cost about $600 and that’s not even the price of processing the meat. I hear about how hogs are overrunning everything but nobody is inviting me to shoot them and I can’t afford to pay $1 per pound.

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Get a pair of chest waders and go walk Pearl River WMA. Walk the sloughs and your odds are pretty good of coming across some pigs

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Borderline poaching

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You caught me big guy, man without people like you how would the world function.

This was before the timber companies started leasing their land and they didn't give a F who hunted where.

I found the city boy!

All joking aside, I know of timber company and 16th section land that was explicitly open (not implicitly) through the mid-80s in some hot MS counties.

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buddy & I ended up paying this on a WY hunting trip back in 2019.

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Was it worth it?