Sick to my stomach at some "hunters"!

[CAMPMEAT]

Here's the bottom line: if you want unfettered access to private land without the possibility of losing it, buy some. Otherwise, you're outta luck.

And as soon as you do buy some private property get ready to meet the tresspassers, thieves etc.

I have some property and nobody I know would want to meet me and my little friend in the middle of the night or day..

[pianoman9701]

Here's the bottom line: if you want unfettered access to private land without the possibility of losing it, buy some. Otherwise, you're outta luck.

And as soon as you do buy some private property get ready to meet the tresspassers, thieves etc.

I have some property and nobody I know would want to meet me and my little friend in the middle of the night or day..

That's "leetle" friend, and I believe you, CM!

[pianoman9701]

Here's the bottom line: if you want unfettered access to private land without the possibility of losing it, buy some. Otherwise, you're outta luck.

And as soon as you do buy some private property get ready to meet the tresspassers, thieves etc.

Not if it were mine.

[huntnphool]

Unfortunatly a lot of the best hunting is on private land these days. You can't blame the guy for locking up a good chunk to hunt himself, if he's got the means why not?

Spoken from a man in the same situation.

Yes Sir I was in the same situation years ago and watched a outfitter slowly take over the area I had been hunting for years. I got to become friends with the land owner and could hunt the land but each year the outfitter put more and more pressure on the land owner to not allow anyone but his clients hunting rights. The land owner was between a rock and a hard place because all though we were friends, with today's economy, they really needed the extra income. Old land owners in much of the country are land rich but income poor and have come to rely on stuff like that just to get by these days.

 Long story short, my options were to whine and look somewhere else or get in the fight, I chose to fight.

[huntnphool]

Here's the bottom line: if you want unfettered access to private land without the possibility of losing it, buy some. Otherwise, you're outta luck.

+1, or pony up the lease money yourself.

[Fishstiq]

Seems like it boils down to simple supply and demand.

The supply of huntable areas is either static or declining (likely the latter).  The demand for use of these lands grows every year.  Ergo, the value of the use of the huntable areas goes up year after year.  The outcome is inevitable, someone will pay more for the use of the land. 

That pretty much leaves 3 choices.  1, be the guy who bids more $.  2, be the guy who gets outbid and move to other land.  3, be the land owner, and be pretty much guaranteed a growing source of income.

It's an unfortunate situation if you are guy #2, but I can't really relate to being "sick to my stomach" over it...

[csaaphill]

  I can.

[DBHAWTHORNE]

I figured you were going to say it was in 130. There seems to be a club or individual around here that has all kind of land leased up. I am not sure who they are but definitely lucky dudes.