POLL: Can you buy hunting success?
11-12-2007, 09:57 PM
#42
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY
Posts: 4,668
RE: POLL: Can you buy hunting success?
I find it interesting that when guys speak of attaining great land to hunt and private honey holes by hitting the pavement and pounding on doors..........they somehow see this as "part of hunting" and a "skill".
Now turn the tables and another guy goes about getting onto these honey holes through another avenue.....money and suddenly it becomes wrong.
Why is it that when someone uses the success they have achieved in life as a way in it is wrong??
Now turn the tables and another guy goes about getting onto these honey holes through another avenue.....money and suddenly it becomes wrong.
Why is it that when someone uses the success they have achieved in life as a way in it is wrong??
11-13-2007, 07:02 AM
#44
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,175
RE: POLL: Can you buy hunting success?
Why is it that when someone uses the success they have achieved in life as a way in it is wrong??
Maybe once you've experienced that then maybe you will begin to understand where there can be some bitterness about the people that go that route.
11-13-2007, 07:32 AM
#45
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 913
RE: POLL: Can you buy hunting success?
ORIGINAL: Arthur P
I won't say it's wrong, but when you've had access to a piece of property for many years, paying a reasonable lease fee, have established food plots and stand sites, run water and electricity to your camp area and have done all those kinds of things, and are finally seeing the size deer you've been waiting for... and then Mr. DeepPockets comes along and buys the land out from under you for double the land's market value and orders your sorry butt off...
Maybe once you've experienced that then maybe you will begin to understand where there can be some bitterness about the people that go that route.
Why is it that when someone uses the success they have achieved in life as a way in it is wrong??
Maybe once you've experienced that then maybe you will begin to understand where there can be some bitterness about the people that go that route.
11-13-2007, 08:01 AM
#46
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,175
RE: POLL: Can you buy hunting success?
Very generous of you, turtleshell, to not belabor the point that it takes a supreme idiot to make those kinds of improvements on land that doesn't belong to you, simply because you assume, since you've already been there a number of years, then you'll still be coming back year after year.
Hunting is rapidly turning into a rich man's sport. If it weren't for public land, I couldn't hunt any more. And there's not enough public land to go around amongst all us peasants. [&:] Not here in this state, anyway.
Hunting is rapidly turning into a rich man's sport. If it weren't for public land, I couldn't hunt any more. And there's not enough public land to go around amongst all us peasants. [&:] Not here in this state, anyway.
11-13-2007, 09:24 AM
#48
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location:
Posts: 13,082
RE: POLL: Can you buy hunting success?
Absolutely you can. If a feller has enough money, he can spend it on all "top end" equipment, and he can buy guided hunts instead of doing it on his own.
It's a different world when you have a guide telling you exactly where to sit and exactly what deer to watch for. Money can certainly buy success....
But then again, that's not how I personally DEFINE success. Success, to me, is doing it my way, and making it work.
It's a different world when you have a guide telling you exactly where to sit and exactly what deer to watch for. Money can certainly buy success....
But then again, that's not how I personally DEFINE success. Success, to me, is doing it my way, and making it work.
11-13-2007, 09:37 AM
#49
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 21,043
RE: POLL: Can you buy hunting success?
Of course you can.
There are places in this country that can nearly guarantee you a nice deer.....if you're willing to pay for it. It is what it is. Does it cheapen any "accomplishment" in my eyes?
Sure. Doesn't mean I'm right. It means I have an opinion.
There are places in this country that can nearly guarantee you a nice deer.....if you're willing to pay for it. It is what it is. Does it cheapen any "accomplishment" in my eyes?
Sure. Doesn't mean I'm right. It means I have an opinion.
11-13-2007, 09:38 AM
#50
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Mich
Posts: 1,090
RE: POLL: Can you buy hunting success?
ORIGINAL: Arthur P
I won't say it's wrong, but when you've had access to a piece of property for many years, paying a reasonable lease fee, have established food plots and stand sites, run water and electricity to your camp area and have done all those kinds of things, and are finally seeing the size deer you've been waiting for... and then Mr. DeepPockets comes along and buys the land out from under you for double the land's market value and orders your sorry butt off...
Maybe once you've experienced that then maybe you will begin to understand where there can be some bitterness about the people that go that route.
Why is it that when someone uses the success they have achieved in life as a way in it is wrong??
Maybe once you've experienced that then maybe you will begin to understand where there can be some bitterness about the people that go that route.