Hunting a dying sport?

[Brother Rockeye]

I know that here in Sk. the biggest hit that hunting ever took was the gun law.
I bought 2 rifles from long time hunters that quit because they didn't want to go thru the BS involved in being legal.And it was the same family-Grandfather and Father of a buddy of mine.

I guess their stupid law worked if reduced revenue from hunting was their goal.too bad the criminals didn't stop committing crimes because they didn't wanna register THEIR guns!

[PJgunner]

The last time I went up to Nevada to see friends, I also stopped by the several rnaches I used to hunt for free. Now the tarif runs from 3 to 5 thousand doallars for the privelige of hunting their precious land. These were ranches where I used to do their predator control work for them as the yotes and occasional Mountail Lion did numbers on calves and cows. A pox on the whole bloody bunch.
Paul B.

[Nulle]

I moved from Eastern part of South Dakota to the Western part and one of the reasons was at least I have Forest Service land to hunt on. But I sure miss my pheasant hunting on a regular basis I had back East.

[Dan Morris]

Deputy ......friend of mine.....up by Green Mountain Res got me a special rate on a ranch....elk at the guys 'family rate'.....$1500.......man, I'm sure glad I'm not a stranger!!!!
No, I didn't go.
Dan

[skeeter@ccia.com]

Land access most of the problem... and ditto on the state game lands here..almost the only place to hunt and there aren't many critters left roaming around there..brown is down...seems everyone that buys land puts up the 'all mine, keep out'..signs...in fact it is quite ugly when on a drive in the country..yellow posted signs littering along all the roads...hard to see the beauty anymore...even if you know you can't go in...oh and Fabs, you best act quick on the land thing..after all....they don't make any more ...(sort of like when someone waits to start a family till they can afford it..you never can..so not wait there)...lots of the people I have talked to on 'take a kid hunting' is worried about the liability issue...ah, the way it is now days...can see their point....
I got a new house in the woods and put up a tree stand only about 50 yds from the house...(got deer in archery out of it)...and a neighbor said someone was in it the first day of deer ...I wasn't out there and property not posted...???..yet? At least when they in my stand, they are pointing the other direction if they would shoot...but the guy in back corner has his tree stand right against prop line along with the 'posted..private...keep out signs'..I did put 'safety zone' signs up for him to look at when he is in his stand...if he wants to be that way...bet it was even him in my stand...had problems with this guy on another farm over 10 yrs ago...farmer told me other day he wish knew what he did to me back then..turns out this guy told farmer this year he would shoot all his critters etc if they came on his property...then had gull to ask..can I hunt your farm?....geez...so now the guy is stuck in his little patch of woods.1/2 acre...just happens to butt my line...one in every crowd guess......you know that is the very first deer I ever shot out of a tree stand...even though I own 4 of them....lol..even the buck I took this year I was eye to eye with him...but took doe from stand...got me one of those tree lounges and love it...only put on tree once to try out..never got to use yet..did part with my loggy climber though..ok..gettin off track with this guys post here...but...one more note...FAbs, that farm is the one that I told you is for sale...they dropped 200g and that deal fell in other wk or so...shame of it all is...my wife grandmother owned all the land out that way at one time...sold it off cause none of the kids they had wanted anything to do with farming..oh well...as stated ....nothing lasts forever..but I did manage to get a corner of the pie.whew..