Hevi-Shot

[skeet]

Fabs...You are an accountant and an attorney. Luckily you probably have places to hunt that cost you nothing but the average guy doesn't. A fairly cheap lease on a place is in the neighborhood of 4000 bucks now days. Dig a pit?? 8-900 bucks....and a day off work. A lot of guys hunt from boats. Boats are expensive to run and maintain. I have done that for years. We were each buying a dozen decoys each every year. Using decoys hard really is hard on them and on the water you are going to lose a few every year. Gas traveling at 2.50 a gallon gas for the boat at 2.50 a gallon times 4 miles to the gallon if you are lucky. BTW a fair to middling duck hunting rig will cost ya in the neighborhood of 15-20 grand. Figure it all out. You don't know how lucky you are to not have any output after the costs you outlined. I had no lease costs at all and waterfowling is a pretty expensive sport for me. Ammo is a small expence. During the late 70's and early 80's we did taxidermy mounts on 50 geese. Doing it ourselves still cost us 20 bucks a pop. And if it was raining you couldn't use them and we had to have a trailer to keep them in and transport with. And they still only lasted 6 or 7 years. We hunt hard. It's tough on every thing we use. Oh and I averaged over 300 geese a year for 25 years.. Lotta shooting. And even in lead days I used the expensive premium shells. They were expensive then.