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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5541025" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>I'll be the first to admit I was one of those skeptics. Having primarily a public land bow hunting background, I always thought these guys killing private land big bucks had it easy because of the property they were hunting. As long as I believed that, it was easy to dismiss them as not being "real" hunters. And now that I am managing & hunting my own dirt I realize just how wrong I was. That mindset was robbing me of acknowledging the holes in my own hunting game, giving me an excuse to not get the success I wanted. Having my own ground to set up any way I pleased really had me choking on crow feathers because I've learned the hard way it's nothing I thought it would be. </p><p></p><p>Deer don't do what I want just because I offered them something I <em>think</em> they want. And big mature bucks don't line up to sacrifice themselves to slaughter. Nothing I imagined about managing my own hunting paradise has proved to be reality. It very much is just as tough as public land, which I still hunt regularly. But like the sayings go, you don't know what you don't know.....until you do, then hindsight is 20/20. My land is a classroom and the deer are my teachers. The lessons learned apply to any land, pressured public or managed private utopia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5541025, member: 20583"] I'll be the first to admit I was one of those skeptics. Having primarily a public land bow hunting background, I always thought these guys killing private land big bucks had it easy because of the property they were hunting. As long as I believed that, it was easy to dismiss them as not being "real" hunters. And now that I am managing & hunting my own dirt I realize just how wrong I was. That mindset was robbing me of acknowledging the holes in my own hunting game, giving me an excuse to not get the success I wanted. Having my own ground to set up any way I pleased really had me choking on crow feathers because I've learned the hard way it's nothing I thought it would be. Deer don't do what I want just because I offered them something I [I]think[/I] they want. And big mature bucks don't line up to sacrifice themselves to slaughter. Nothing I imagined about managing my own hunting paradise has proved to be reality. It very much is just as tough as public land, which I still hunt regularly. But like the sayings go, you don't know what you don't know.....until you do, then hindsight is 20/20. My land is a classroom and the deer are my teachers. The lessons learned apply to any land, pressured public or managed private utopia. [/QUOTE]
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