doctors and lawyers ruin all duck hunting

[goosebruce]

So it was like cool for you to backdoor HIS hunting hole (afterall, he was there first), but it's not cool for him to offer sum change to keep you out?

It's not like it was your place, and he rented it out from under you. You've never set foot on this place. What have you lost? Just what you had in it, nothing.

2 grand for 2 years is big cheese? Ya, you better go back to the refuges you hunt.

And if the private land leasers are all greedy land grabbers awaiting to sweep down on anyone that hears about a duckhole... and the refuges are full of skybusting rednecks like you say... Is there anyone that measures up to your standards?

Face it dude, you almost lucked into something... You didn't lose anything., nor where you screwed. travis

[SkippyJ]

Travis-bwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You know, I can always count on a few to just sit down and tell it like it is!!

People-

[gadwall2]

Redeyed, there is has to be a black sheep in every family.

Goose is dead on. I thought I was going to luck into a couple of holes one time, but we find out the day before the hunt that some other guys have been hunting those holes without permission. The guys that were hunting them were pretty good fellas and were friends with the land owner. We could have leased it and knocked them out of a hole, but didn't. The land owner thanked us for not leasing it because he did not want to make a big deal out of the situation. He was going to lease it to us anyway because he had already said he would and was going to live up to his word. It was not much money at all so money wasn't even a factor to him. He didn't want to hurt friends feelings, and I didn't want to back door anybody, so I just let it go. I think they paid him some money anyway out of respect.

[GulfCoast]

"THEY PROABLY (sic) HAVE NEVER EVEN SEEN A DUCK HOLE UNTIL EVERYBODY STARTED DOING IT. "

What a crock of crap.

I hate to be the one to forcibly smack someone upside the head with the truth, especially on the internet, but virtually every lawyer that I know who hunts ducks has been doing it since they were a child, me included. All the doctors I know who go more than once or twice a year have been hunting since they were small children.

I go at least 3 times a week, and have been this A.M., hunting public. Guess what: No one else was in the marsh. DUH.

Sounds to me like you were gonna jack the spot the doc had been hunting, and now yer hot it didn't work. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH DUCK LAND IS OUT THERE IF YOU LOOK? If I can find it with my schedule, no one else has any excuse.

Blaming doctors and lawyers if you can't find a place to hunt is like screaming "I AM LAZY AND I WANT A HANDOUT."

Do you realize about 30% of the regular posters on this board are lawyers?

[duckhuntalot]

What's that smell? Didi someone step in something!

BBBWWWWWWaaaaaaaHHHHHaaaaaaHHHHaaaaaaa!

Okay ANAT! Your turn!

[dukdawgn]

Boo-FREAKING-Hoo!!!!!

"...mommy! Tommy's hunting on my side of the road, again!....Tell 'em to quit!!...."

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

You want a little cheeeeeeze wif that wine? Your bitch-fitting about something that never was yours. And don't think if you had the means to lease it to keep folks out, that you wouldn't. I don't blame anyone with money for being able to persuade folks into using their land. If they got the money, no matter how they got it, that's their business and not ours. Settlements or schooling, no matter, they've got it and i don't. So what?

Shoulda smacked your family upside the head for "leasing out from under you". Sounds like they wanted the money more than they wanted you to impress your friend. 2G's for 2 years? Hell, not only is it a doctor leasing it, but its a smart one for wheelin and dealin. 2G's aint jack squat to lease anything even remotely related to duck hunting. SO, not only where you under-cut, but done at a cheap rate. AAAWWWWWWWWWWW...dam dude. now that's adding insult to injury.

Oh yeah, by the way.....I graduate next year, so i guess that'll be another land-lover added to the pool.

[Lazy Drake]

Looks like you are out of luck, unless you pony up some $$$$.

Sometimes your the bug, sometimes your the windshield.



LazyDrake

[SoftCall]

$2000 for a 16 acre hole that's consistently full of ducks? Gimme their phone number...split that 3 or 4 ways and it's easily attainable. BTW - I am not a Dr. or Lawyer but I have several who are my friends and several who are not. It's not the Doc's and legal eagles out there ruining this sport. It's the friggin weather. I also hunt refuges and I don't consider myself a redneck...nor does Mallardchaser...or Wildfowler...etc...etc..

[feedcall]

Softcall- I think Mallardchaser does consider himself a redneck. HeHeHe

[torch]

Feedcall I,m with u. That is awful cheap for a slough. we pay over 10k for a 20 acre spot. Give me they guys number and I guarantee it will lease for more than 2000.00.

[Skeeter]

perhaps i bitched a little bit about losing this duck hole to a doctor, i know, perhaps he is rewarding hisself with all his years of schooling, and maybe when i pay off my two undergraduate and 1 graduate degrees ill be able to do it too....maybe i was being a bit too selective on just "doctors and lawyers"...but maybe i should extend it to people who pay ridiculous prices to lease duck hunting land....what happens is this : Farmer A is leasing a 10 acre slew for 10 grand.....fine and dandy for him.....well, Farmer B has a 10 acre slew also and wants to lease it out....realistically land leases for 5-7 dollars an acre in this age, except duck hunting land.....so Farmer B finds out Farmer A is getting 10 grand for duck hunting so Farmer B will lease it for the same....and get it.....great for him.....and creates the domino effect for high duck leases....

SO WHAT IF IM BITCHIN!!! ITS MY GOD GIVEN RIGHT AS A DUCK HUNTER!!!!!

[BIG TIMBER]

I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH YA'LL PAY OR HOW MANY YA'LL KILL JUST AS LONG AS I GET MY MONEY!!!!!!!!

[Hambone]

I think that as long as duck hunting stays fun and people have money, the notion of a free honey hole is a dream. The reality is that to have any control over your own situation, you are going to have to buy or lease property. You can't blame doctors, lawyers or anyone else, nor can you find fault with a landowner who figured out a very easy way to make an otherwise financially unproductive piece of ground generate some income. The only other choice is to fight the crowds on the public places. I hope that we are just having a back-to-back pair of off seasons, but history tells otherwise. We have a bad decade or so for every good decade or so, and we're about due for tough times. If that is the case, I expect that you will see less demand for the duck spots, particularly if they cut the limits back. You're right about one thing for sure: we duck hunters have not only a right, but a duty to complain, even in the midst of our enjoyment.

[Double_R]

Farmer A is leasing a 10 acre slew for 10 grand.....fine and dandy for him.....well, Farmer B has a 10 acre slew also and wants to lease it out....realistically land leases for 5-7 dollars an acre in this age, except duck hunting land.....so Farmer B finds out Farmer A is getting 10 grand for duck hunting so Farmer B will lease it for the same....and get it.....great for him.....and creates the domino effect for high duck leases....

PT Barnum said "There's a sucker born every day"

WC Fields said "Never give a sucker a break"

It's call capitalism; it's the American way. $5-7 per acre is not the market price for duck land. The market price is what the market - duck hunters - will and do pay.

Sorry the opportunity didn't pan out. Be patient, maybe it'll come around again.

[Double_R]

Farmer A is leasing a 10 acre slew for 10 grand.....fine and dandy for him.....well, Farmer B has a 10 acre slew also and wants to lease it out....realistically land leases for 5-7 dollars an acre in this age, except duck hunting land.....so Farmer B finds out Farmer A is getting 10 grand for duck hunting so Farmer B will lease it for the same....and get it.....great for him.....and creates the domino effect for high duck leases....

PT Barnum said "There's a sucker born every day"

WC Fields said "Never give a sucker a break"

It's call capitalism; it's the American way. $5-7 per acre is not the market price for duck land. The market price is what the market - duck hunters - will and do pay.

Sorry the opportunity didn't pan out. Be patient, maybe it'll come around again.