Originally Posted by cartervj
Hunting is transitioning into a sport of the wealthy. Public lands will and have been inundated with new hunters. Look at all these new regulations on out of staters wanting to turkey hunt. How many states have changed rules making out of staters have to wait and be limited to opportunity. Arkansas did the same for ducks other public lands. The lease I was in started at $2500 10 years ago and then $5000 and this year $7500. Land workers want more money cause they can get it. There’s enough new hunters willing to pay. Public land is being pounded.

Landowners will do whatever it takes to keep game in their land.

Doesn’t matter if they’re traveling a few miles or few thousand. Money will corrupt the resource at some point.

I saw it play out the same way. I started duck hunting several years ago when I was a youngster and loved it my entire life, but I stopped about 7 years ago. It just got to the point it was so expensive, the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. I couldn't go back to public because now those places were over run or shot out by youngsters that didn't know enough to only shoot them once or twice a year. Ducks just don't go there now and the ones that would hammer them every Saturday in the same spot just can't figure out why.

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