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Originally Posted by Iowanian
I haven't shot my bow in a year. I'm too busy with other things. Between that and all the dumbass "staff" hunters around I don't even really care. I used to plan my year around bow hunting and now I don't know if I'd have a single weekend that I could.
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This has slowly been happening to me the last few years.
It started with the clown season they call rifle just burning me out. But now I'm surrounded by ~25 idiots form Georgia and Alabama on top of the regular neighbor issues. They lease every acre from a large farmer who leases most of the ground to farm. I have gone from spending a lot of money and time making food plots to "**** it, what's the point". Have at least a half dozen trail cameras I haven't even put out.
The only real point in going to the tree is for the silence and to watch them run for their lives just trying to get back to my properties before they die. Even me being there is a liability as I could push the one or two deer I'd actually take next year back into a long trailer ride to Georgia were they'll tell every friend they have about how good Missouri is which leads to more driving up lease and land prices for everyone else here. Meanwhile, I know the area is in a 4-5 year decline in both quality and volume.
MDC needs to mirror Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas tag prices or just admit they don't really give a damn about young Missouri hunters actually having a place to hunt.