Quote Originally Posted by papasage View Post
land around here belongs to rich folk and you have to pay big bucks just to hunt .

Thats why I kind of stopped deer hunting as much as I do now. Got to where I was investing over $1500 a year just for a place to hunt not counting fuel, food, food plots etc. and then everyone wanted to do this their way and that way and bla bla bla so i got out of the club.
Mostly hunt public national forest land in the N ga mountains with them bears or over at a friends property. We got a cabin in the woods up there my grandfather built in the 60s and we stay there and hunt. Kind of like hunting back in the old days before 4 wheelers, kill a deer and got to drag it a mile on foot.
I figured what I pay to hunt lease land I could buy a lot more beef for the freezer. Its very sad this country is in the shape its in. Got people paying $20k to kill a deer out west. Getting to where you got to have money to enjoy what our forefathers did. Thats why I got hooked on fishing. You can go to any public lake and fish and you can catch the same fish out of a canoe as you can a $60k boat. and if gas keeps going up I may be buying my a canoe and put me a minn kota on it and spider rig from a canoe. Ethanol free at JRs the other day was $4.19 and it hurt filling 2 14 gallon tanks in the boat.
My wife and I started having a big garden last year and canned a lot and gonna be bigger this year. Going to have about 25 mater plants, corn, okra, squash, beans etc etc. Going to can everything I can. Paid $178 at wally world for groceries other day and had a 1/3rd of a buggy full. Pitiful.

Nice stands Danbo! Kind of gave me an idea for one my buddy and I was going to build for hunting his fields. nice work