Hey don't think we have not all thought the same thing - Buy a slough.
But to me that is not hunting - Going to the same place & doing the same thing - over & over is just shooting. Sure you can refine how you decoy & learn about the migration & new birds. by hunting the same hole.
But I have to scout & see new places & find where the best concentrations of birds are (& it changes every year) & that makes it interesting. & that is why guides cannot lease enough land.
& with this, it brings you to new areas - meet new landowners & Farmers (which to me has been interesting also) Just when you think I really have a good network of Farmers & Landowners - to be able to hunt - everything changes & the area is not as productive as it once was. & you have to move on - over 30 years I have seen this happen over & over again. I really do wish we would have just found a consistently good area & stayed more put & developed it into a comfortable place to go & have that easy hunt. & shoot a few birds.
But I would not change what I got to do the last 30 years either - It has been an amazing run - a hunting expirence most will never know - (Unless they go to Canada in the next 20 years.)
Even if it gets tougher & I have to really scale back my playground - it is still better to be mobile & go where the birds want to be. & Thanks to all the Landowners / Hunters out there that can still relate to this & let us Hunt.
But to me that is not hunting - Going to the same place & doing the same thing - over & over is just shooting. Sure you can refine how you decoy & learn about the migration & new birds. by hunting the same hole.
But I have to scout & see new places & find where the best concentrations of birds are (& it changes every year) & that makes it interesting. & that is why guides cannot lease enough land.
& with this, it brings you to new areas - meet new landowners & Farmers (which to me has been interesting also) Just when you think I really have a good network of Farmers & Landowners - to be able to hunt - everything changes & the area is not as productive as it once was. & you have to move on - over 30 years I have seen this happen over & over again. I really do wish we would have just found a consistently good area & stayed more put & developed it into a comfortable place to go & have that easy hunt. & shoot a few birds.
But I would not change what I got to do the last 30 years either - It has been an amazing run - a hunting expirence most will never know - (Unless they go to Canada in the next 20 years.)
Even if it gets tougher & I have to really scale back my playground - it is still better to be mobile & go where the birds want to be. & Thanks to all the Landowners / Hunters out there that can still relate to this & let us Hunt.