Originally posted by Hunt N Nut:
More hunters looking to hunt out of state and in state hunters leasing more ground to keep others out? Which is it Dew? Are they leaving the state or not.
Surprisingly, you make less sense today than usual. I think you likes to hear yourself talk.
Yep.....I like to talk about things others don't want discussed. And as you will learn right now Hunt N Nut........there are different reasons why people lease.
1) They will lease
outside of Indiana to find the
Quality that was taken as our herd is being drastically cut, and our 32+ days of gun season remained intact. Our IDNR did not want that to happen in Prop #1 but due to the NRC's leadership manipulation of Prop #1......we now have a massive deer reduction in place.....and no means for Quality to be sustained. Hence we are already hearing from the Leadership of the Hoosier Record Book the drop in Quality entries. Again....Hoosiers will lease OUTSIDE of Indiana for the Quality that is being lost at a dramatic pace already.
2) Those that aren't as interested in Quality here in Indiana, they will lease
inside Indiana.......they will lease their fellow Hoosiers out so they still have some
Quantity left. We have already begun to see that. That is EXACTLY what Base Camp Leasing told us and Wildlife Officers in both Illinios and Ohio told us. The Lack of Quality draws Hoosier hunters out of Indiana to lease.......The lack of Quantity will drive those left in Indiana to lease to at least have some deer to hunt. The overcrowding of our Public Ground these days are those that got "shut out".....and there will be more of them. Interestingly enough.....some of those pieces of public ground know how they hunt too....and exclude all hunters from using their Bonus Doe tags on those public properties!! They know the type that got booted/leased off the private ground.......and they don't want their "kill 'em all" attitudes to ruin the public ground either.
There ya go Hunt N Nut.......ya learn somethin' new every day don't ya.
People lease for different reasons......imagine that....LOL!!