A thought popped in my head when you were talking about what can be done for the landowners. Taking multiple videos of a period of time from winter through fall and showing the progression of foliage and undergrowth development on their property? Might be able to show them how the progression of invasive vegetation will impact the land.
That's certainly possible and would be pretty easy to do. It all boils down really what landowners are willing to pay for. It's been my experience that many of them have a hard time forking over $350 to find a buck that they wound, so I'm not certain how many actual private landowners we will actually attract with anything that we offer.
But they will fork over thousands on corn.
Lol, yeap. This gos back to the sad era of hunting we are currently existing in. My favorite line is the buck isnt big enough to pay money to find it. I don't think we will be offering deer recovery next season, at least not wide spread. I'll stay local only and limit my calls.
I couldn't do what you guys do. I'm angry enough without the help of others. It is very obvious to me that we aren't all the same. That Amish kid has shot 3 deer this year that ran on to our part. He never looked for any of them because he didn't see them fall.
I think Brock said it best, I'm going to try my best not to remember any of it. It was bad. I have a lot less stressful ways to make more money. The drone will still be a big part of our buisiness, just not looking for dead deer.
Yep. About as bad as "it was just a doe" comments. The one guy who hired me to come find his doe I gave a huge discount to simply because I was thrilled that he cared enough about a doe to pay me to come find it. A life is a life regardless what's on the head of the deer.
How is that possible. How can you do anything for 20 or 30 years and not know anything about it whether it be golfing, fishing or killing deer?
You should ask half the mechanics I've worked with...
I can't answer that question. I wonder the same thing. I'm not saying everyone was that way as we had many great clients as well, but some I was speechless.
Yes every day. Thats why they hire me
I’d be all for everyone that wants to bow hunt in Ohio having to take Bowhunter Ed - everyone. Unfortunately, our DoW is not going to require anyone to take it. They are scared to death of making it difficult in any way for people to take to the field to shoot deer. Never mind the fact that a percentage of people are absolutely clueless. It’s a horrible situation, IMO. This is one reason tools like drones can be a great benefit. When the availability and price of these things comes down I sincerely hope they will be as common as a rangefinder. Arrow shot deer that do not tip over inside of 100 yards should not be fooled with for hours, as a rule. I hope in the near future drones will be so readily available that if a deer does not drop in sight, the hunter will just go get their drone or call their buddy w one to assess the deer’s condition. They will be abused by some, but the potential benefit in recovered game is big enough to tolerate the stupidity, I think.
