Our own worst enemy

[fabsroman]

Yeah, it is kind of tough when you are an avid hunter or fisherman and you have your own property. One of my dreams is to have my own farm and I am starting to get a lot closer to it. When I finally reach it, with all the hard work, I plan on doing some hard work on the farm too, so that I can set it up right for hunting. It will be tough for me to allow every Tom, Dick & Harry to hunt the property without me being there. I will gladly allow my friends to hunt with me, but I still want to be present. Wouldn't even mind letting strangers hunt, but only when I am present.

See, farm owners that aren't avid hunters could care less if a person mis-manages a deer herd, over fishes a pond, or over hunts waterfowl in the field. When an avid hunter owns the property, it is his dream come true and after investing a lot of hard work in the place it would suck to give somebody permission to hunt the place and have them shoot everything in site. That is because most people that ask to hunt don't care about next year or the year after that. They also have the attitude that since other people are allowed to hunt the property too, it is a first come first served basis fr who gets to shoot everything up.

Towards the end of goose season, I got permission from a landownder to hunt a pond out front of his place. I knew that my "friend" who also knew the landowner would also be informed of it. So, I waited, and waited, and waited to see if my "friend" would let me know about it before he hunted it. I knew the geese were piling into this place. Guess what, after waiting a couple weeks to hear from the "friend," I found out from the landowner that the "friend" had hunted it twice in one week and completely slaughtered the geese. When it comes to getting permission to hunt on the east coast, it is really tough and almost nobody is your friend.

I am formulating a strategy for next season and will probably try to put it in play once the season starts to come around and I can see where the geese are going. I have a couple of fields around my new place that I have seen. I'm just wondering if geese are going to them.

Good luck with finding a place to hunt/fish Classic. It is tough out there and don't expect any help from your "friends."