Yea that sucks pete...makes your piss burn & leaves you deflated...
After a couple of years work & access granted, ive recently been denied that access all through the defamatory back-stabbing control methods of some people within a certain "shooters group"...they use power to band together & defame someone because they get bruised ego's when they dont get the same privileges, & so go about destroying others opportunities...low life gutless clicky fuk-wits--i hope they are reading this--they know who they are...!!!
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At the risk of repeating...again, i dont think people have an incling of the emotional attachment we sometimes unknowingly build to these places we hunt...
But dont worry guys...ill be in the same boat as you soon enough--hopefully not soon, but with how fast life is scooting on by, it will come soon enough...
My ol'man took a sapling of a gum tree that popped up in his yard & has planted it in the yard of the old homestead we stay in, on a farm we both regularly visit...
Under that tree lies the ashes of my grandfather...
The day i ring ahead & get told "NO", will be a hard day no doubt...
The farmer who is older than me, has no kids & cant live for ever, so unless im unfortunate enough to tip over before him, sadly i expect ill be denied access to a spot that delivers me some very grounding moments...& smelly ones too when i have a heap of foxes to skin out the next morning before i slap some bacon over the fire......
Pete...Id have a think about it, & then have a word to the farmer & his family...atleast try get access to the occasional deer & couple of bunnies for sentimental purposes...
If the answer still comes back a "NO", although its not much consolation, then its clear the sons values are not what you would want in your life anyway...
I rekon i could get some access to deer country down your way, but i just dont have the time to pursue it in a regular proactive manner, from where i live...
I do plod along the networking trail, & when & if i get somewhere to chase deer down that general direction, ill let you know & be glad to share with you, as im not one who is greedy or likes waste...(i know of many who are just out for thrill kills & waste hundreds of kilos of good meat & couldnt give a hoot about the experience)...
The man who knows everything, doesnt really know everything...he's just stopped learning...