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<blockquote data-quote="David P. Herne" data-source="post: 3210" data-attributes="member: 29"><p><strong>Re: D.C.\'s spot</strong></p><p></p><p>Darryl,</p><p>I was REALLY hoping you were gonna say that (that you're secret hunting locale is on public land)!!! You have no idea how much this news revs me up and reassures me that a man of modest means such as myself can acutally hope to get in there (Colorado) and find and take a bull elk without having to shell out thousands of dollars for a trophy fee. You see, almost the entire population of hunters from my neck of the woods believe one can't legally hunt anything without having to pay HUGE money for it. Consequently, the overwhelming majority of successful Texas hunters fall into the following 4 categories: (a) corporate executives whose employers lease extremely expensive game ranches or pay for extremely costly 'day hunts', (b) people who ride into the aforementioned type of situation on the coat tails of their relatives (the means by which I have killed most of the trophy animals on my walls), (c) men of modest means who are willing to go into debt and/or make absurb financial sacrifices in order to go and get their trophy whitetail, elk, pronghorn, or moose each year, and finally, (d) poachers (recently discovered to actually be the most successful of the four categories, being credited with the best/highest B&C averages for whitetail deer in the State of Texas). Incidentally, prices for the big bucks from out of the largest and most intensely managed game ranches down here reportedly run as high as $35,000 (just one animal, mind you)!!!</p><p></p><p>My wife and I found a couple of promising looking areas after a trip to a family members place in Silverthorne last spring, but one is always nervous about asking alot of questions in Colorado in an effort to lay the groundwork for such a campaign when one is from Texas as they just don't care much for Texans up there. But gimme a couple of years and I'm gonna do this thing!</p><p></p><p>Regards,</p><p>D.H.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="David P. Herne, post: 3210, member: 29"] [b]Re: D.C.\'s spot[/b] Darryl, I was REALLY hoping you were gonna say that (that you're secret hunting locale is on public land)!!! You have no idea how much this news revs me up and reassures me that a man of modest means such as myself can acutally hope to get in there (Colorado) and find and take a bull elk without having to shell out thousands of dollars for a trophy fee. You see, almost the entire population of hunters from my neck of the woods believe one can't legally hunt anything without having to pay HUGE money for it. Consequently, the overwhelming majority of successful Texas hunters fall into the following 4 categories: (a) corporate executives whose employers lease extremely expensive game ranches or pay for extremely costly 'day hunts', (b) people who ride into the aforementioned type of situation on the coat tails of their relatives (the means by which I have killed most of the trophy animals on my walls), (c) men of modest means who are willing to go into debt and/or make absurb financial sacrifices in order to go and get their trophy whitetail, elk, pronghorn, or moose each year, and finally, (d) poachers (recently discovered to actually be the most successful of the four categories, being credited with the best/highest B&C averages for whitetail deer in the State of Texas). Incidentally, prices for the big bucks from out of the largest and most intensely managed game ranches down here reportedly run as high as $35,000 (just one animal, mind you)!!! My wife and I found a couple of promising looking areas after a trip to a family members place in Silverthorne last spring, but one is always nervous about asking alot of questions in Colorado in an effort to lay the groundwork for such a campaign when one is from Texas as they just don't care much for Texans up there. But gimme a couple of years and I'm gonna do this thing! Regards, D.H. [/QUOTE]
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