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At this point in my life, it isn’t anything like it was when I was young. Everything was about economics the cost of ammunition, the gun that I used the price of gas to get me where I would go hunting. All these things entered into making the decision of where and when I would go hunting.

I dreamed of being able to be in the position I am now, that the cost of fuel doesn’t matter, if there’s a gun I see that I like I can buy it, ammunition is of no consequence, but the hunger in the pit of my stomach for what I used to do as a young man isn’t the same. Having all that I do now is great, but I miss those days when I was younger and how much it meant to be able to get everything put together to go on even the simplest hunt…

Tip of the hat to my retired (and, divorced) friend Curtis, for this observation.

“The very best fisherman are in the very worst marriages”.

Best,
Ted

Poverty certainly can keep the young out of the outdoors.
Shooting Skeet is $15.00 a line now.
There are no more trappers at my club.
No more young people.
Nobody brings their kids with any regularity.

As I look back on my sporting life, starting in the middle 1970s, I can say that fuel costs were by and largely the greatest influence on how frequently I enjoy the outdoors.

Judging from what I see around me today, things really haven’t changed much.

I used to coach young people about getting a prepaid credit card, and make regular sporting life deposits to it during the fat part of the year when they had extra money coming in. That way when the fall came, fuel and license costs weren’t an issue.

I don’t do that anymore.
It’s more fun to listen to people whine about how expensive everything is. And it is, to the unprepared.

I have a friend whose son has shot many a whitetail deer and many a pheasant while hunting with his dad. All the deer were shot from the same tree stand his dad put up for him as a kid, and the pheasants were all shot in front of his dad's shorthair. The dad quit due to health issues, and the son did quit too. The economics seem to be that the dad took care of all the game once it was on the ground, and the son's ex-wife doesn't want "her son" hunting.

I did Steve, and it's on me, nothing more than an accidental send, before I intended. If there was something concerning to you, please post it, or steer me to it, and I will put it back up.

You have a good neighbor. I presume by your previous comment that you play in they clouds, with your mindset on high end, right skpolis. I presume you refuse to look at the illegal use of sportsman's funds on urban waste, fraud and abuse 'outdoor' programs. Good on you marlon, got your priorities spot on.

By the way, I take special interest in how youlie about the cost and difficulty of hunting, you're ahypocrit, right? marlon gets all the bird and big game hunting he wants, and as the stories go, public lands are hundreds upon hundreds of miles away out on the fruited plains.

Read my second post on you being judgmental about how others chose to enjoy the outdoors Sunshine. Maybe step down from your soapbox and realize that you are just another nimrod, no different from the rest of us and in no position to pass judgement upon others.

My goodness you are a clueless tool Craig. I can be in good bird hunting a couple of hours from my mountain home out on the plains, I own a 2nd house in the middle of splendid bird country on those fruited plains and I hunt big game in both places. I have quite decent hunting in my back yard, I'm surrounded by public ground and live within the Forest Service boundary, all by choice. The hypocrisy is all on your side Sunshine.

I'm not sure how you ended up with such a high regard for your own opinion that you feel that you have the right to judge how often, where or how others hunt. I have tried to think of something that I care less about than your opinion on the subject and just can't do it.

I live to hunt and make it a priority, it is costly, that is not a lie.

Why are you such an a$$hole? Just natural or do you work at it like Karen?

Since you are on a roll being wrong, I thought I might share some public land birds and bucks taken walking distance from my house. Tags are cheap locally, out of state not so much. Gas, dogs, guns, a house dedicated to hunting....it adds up, but I wouldn't have it any other way.