04-23-2019, 12:22 PM
(04-23-2019, 12:54 AM)Benton Wrote: My family is fortunate enough to have some hunting acreage. We've got 6-8 guys who come up from Florida every year just to hunt here because, according to them, the venison is better. They come in and tag their limits, and my brother usually has some extra to send back with them where he's tried to thin down the does. I always thought it was nuts to go that far for something you can bag a lot closer to home, but they say it's worth the drive.
I listen to a podcast and watch videos from a group called The Hunting Public, and the episode I was listening to on my drive to Virginia Tech this morning they were talking about how shitty the hunting in Florida is, specifically on public land. Granted, they were talking turkeys, but I'm sure it's the same for deer. And since there is so little huntable public land, the private land owners charge a premium. I have zero doubt that it is more cost effective for them to come up your way.
I need to find some private land owners around my neck of the woods, though. The GWNF is so pressured for deer that we have tighter bag restrictions than some other areas, and we also have CWD on its way to us.
I also have no problem helping thin out some does. I'm in it for the meat, anyway.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
