Postby QuacknStrut » Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:27 pm
I am gonna out myself here (easy now, not THAT kinda OUT). I am from Florida. I been hunting MS for 17 years. I have built friendships with folks that I can pick the phone up and ask them how the birds are and make the trip. I don't ask them to take me (sometimes they have), just if there are birds around. We have stayed in 2 places in those 17 years. We earned the freindship, have had folks visit our state with the same hospitality we got in theirs. We have leased private and we have hunted a lot of public. When we get out and find birds, we invite the locals that have thrown us some info-one year we took our MS buddy on his best hunt of the year because we had burned some serious fuel scouting. We did not do it because it would help us, we did it because he was our friend. A lot of cats on here and other sites will tell you to stay home and the mean it. I don't like folks pulling up on me when I am raking in Reds on an oysterbar either. But when asked nicely I have shown folks how to catch them like we were.
If ya wanna plunk down some cash and kill birds, ya better have some serious coin. If you wanta HUNT birds, then you gotta do just that. I said in another thread we had a farmer call us to come kill the geese on his field when we were back home. We owe his SIL a hunt and will take him whenever we can. But we met this guy, he let us hunt his field, we offer him some of the meat (cleaned and packed of course) and you can never even tell we were in his fields. We always take some cane syrup or some oysters or some Satsumas or something from our part of Florida when we go to gift to the great folks we have met. We have hunted with famous people and we have hunted with regular Joes and enjoyed every one of them. Folks is folks no matter where they are from, but the internet ain't the way to meet people or kill birds. A handshake and a good deed are still the same in 2011 as they were in 1811.