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Last year I got names and addresses from a couple of the landowners on BMA's I like and appreciate.
So at Christmas time I ordered family packs in a decorative baskets, They get a card by Christmas with a arrival date, for the fruit.
This year while driving to a hunting BMA I met a older pickup, the guy flags me down. Asks "your Wayne aren't you".

We had a long nice visit, I'm welcome to hunt, camp,and stop in anytime.

Dang that made Me feel good.:thumbsup:
 
mnmthunting said:
Last year I got names and addresses from a couple of the landowners on BMA's I like and appreciate.
So at Christmas time I ordered family packs in a decorative baskets, They get a card by Christmas with a arrival date, for the fruit.
This year while driving to a hunting BMA I met a older pickup, the guy flags me down. Asks "your Wayne aren't you".

We had a long nice visit, I'm welcome to hunt, camp,and stop in anytime.

Dang that made Me feel good.:thumbsup:
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Good for you Wayne,

Thats how you get your foot in the door. Pay forward and send thank you gifts for the privilege of hunting private prop. :thumbsup::cheers:
 
That awesome Wayne.:cheers: We can push back on the bad rap we get from less than thoughtful hunters. I do the same thing, I've even sent a little thank you to some who I've never had the pleasure to meet or hunt with because of more than generous offers.
 
Spuds

I used to take several bags of hand picked(big ones) spuds from Idaho to trade for permission to hunt. worked for me :cheers:
 
I have found a thank you card along with a gift card goes a long way too! Nice work Wayne for keeping hunters in the good spot light!
 
I made friends with a guy and his son who lets me hunt and stay on his land and every year I bring a bottle of the best whiskey I can find because he said he'd like a bottle one year. He's kept the last two bottles unopened because they were brands he'd never heard of.
Last spring I looked his address up on the internet and sent him a thank you card and a description of what I'd done on my hunt. When I saw him this year he had the card next to his computer and said it was the first letter he'd gotten at the post office in 20 years and I don't think he was exaggerating. He was going to move a grainery he had on another piece he owned onto the place I hunt and finish it off inside into living quarters I could stay in while I was hunting in the area. Three bottles of whiskey, 15 minutes on the computer and a thank you card. The folks I've met in Montana appreciate the smallest gestures and repay many times over an acknowledgement of their generosity in allowing us to hunt their land.
 
Cal, I'm Quite sure You know one of the places
I'm talking about.
Plenty of room for a couple of old guys, :thumbsup: and a couple spoiled rotten pups, actually I have 2.:eek:
10k acres actually a lot more.
Will,maybe keep us going till noon you think?:cheers:
Time to plan.:thumbsup:
 
Another pic I thought worthy of adding to my Library.:)
Limits don't always make the pic.

 
Wayne you have gotten it!!! :thumbsup: Sometimes it takes me well over an hour when I stop and chat. It is like they have not spoken to anyone in a year and just won't let me go... Some of my most memorable hunts were also with 1 or 2 birds and when times were tough!!! Great photo and thanks for sharing with us and the landowners!!!:cheers:
 
jsdriggs said:
A UPH meet in MT!
Like I said before, I think I need a change of pace from my normal areas in MT. They seem to be getting too crowded. I'm liking my ND idea.

I'd welcome you and Cal to Wyoming and take you around as well next year. Not spectacular numbers of birds, but as you know, spectacular scenery, some serious long tail, old birds here and there, chukars and huns. Good waterfowling too Wayne.
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Beautiful area You have. We were out in Jackson Hole with the young kids. We followed the snowplows up and over Teton Pass. It was February.
Lets hope for a easy Winter and good nesting and brood rearing conditions in the Spring in the pheasant country.
And plan next Fall hunting adventures.
 
Wayne, you have given some great advice here for hunters. I talk to hunters who groan they have nowhere to hunt. Hunters need to develop relationships with landowners if they want to have a good hunting spot. We have a great deer hunting location that results in some nice buck every year. This summer, the group of guys who hunt there, spent a day weeding the man's garden, cleaning up some fallen trees and putting bark around his flower beds. We were welcome there before but those kinds of things cement the deal. When we were done, he said you guys are welcome to hunt here as long as he owned the property. You have to put some effort into a hunting spot.
 
Good job with the gifts

When I ranched in eastern Mt. we had goose and antelope hunters stop in and when they did our chores didn't get done very early with all the visiting. It was nice to see the same hunters stop in every year to visit.
 
Roosterslammer said:
Wayne, you have given some great advice here for hunters. I talk to hunters who groan they have nowhere to hunt. Hunters need to develop relationships with landowners if they want to have a good hunting spot. We have a great deer hunting location that results in some nice buck every year. This summer, the group of guys who hunt there, spent a day weeding the man's garden, cleaning up some fallen trees and putting bark around his flower beds. We were welcome there before but those kinds of things cement the deal. When we were done, he said you guys are welcome to hunt here as long as he owned the property. You have to put some effort into a hunting spot.
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I have a friend now! One I didn't before I met him and his family and they allowed me to hunt. I have taken him elk hunting(Actually him and a buddy) and when we were there last time we took a day to cut firewood for his wood stove in the shop. For some reason he needs to have it 85 degrees in there. Ac kicks on at 86. I piss him off when I open the shop door, which is big enough to run his combines in through. But we managed about 4 cords of wood that I am sure only lasted him a month. He met my brother in Wichita to cut a semi full of Hedge to bring back. I took him gold panning and grouse hunting here and I get the bunk house out there when ever I show up. I am always invited to his birthday party/ customer appreciation dinner where I meet a bunch of other landowners and their families, some as far away as Oklahoma and Nebraska. I have educated him on cat depredation and he culled 23 cats off the farm. He has started planting food and cover in his cattle pens which he no longer uses for cattle. These often turn into life long friendships as long as no one takes advantage of the other. We are close enough now that we can tell each other to f off and no one gets hurt. Sort of like another brother. I cook for the whole family when I am out there and his mom comes over and tells the best stories about the old days that I could or would pay admission to hear. :cheers:
 
quail hound said:
That awesome Wayne.:cheers: We can push back on the bad rap we get from less than thoughtful hunters. I do the same thing, I've even sent a little thank you to some who I've never had the pleasure to meet or hunt with because of more than generous offers.
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YES you have and the wife and I still think that it was the nicest thing anyone had ever done..Come any time you can make it here. :thumbsup:
 
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BleuBijou said:
I have a friend now! One I didn't before I met him and his family and they allowed me to hunt. I have taken him elk hunting(Actually him and a buddy) and when we were there last time we took a day to cut firewood for his wood stove in the shop. For some reason he needs to have it 85 degrees in there. Ac kicks on at 86. I piss him off when I open the shop door, which is big enough to run his combines in through. But we managed about 4 cords of wood that I am sure only lasted him a month. He met my brother in Wichita to cut a semi full of Hedge to bring back. I took him gold panning and grouse hunting here and I get the bunk house out there when ever I show up. I am always invited to his birthday party/ customer appreciation dinner where I meet a bunch of other landowners and their families, some as far away as Oklahoma and Nebraska. I have educated him on cat depredation and he culled 23 cats off the farm. He has started planting food and cover in his cattle pens which he no longer uses for cattle. These often turn into life long friendships as long as no one takes advantage of the other. We are close enough now that we can tell each other to f off and no one gets hurt. Sort of like another brother. I cook for the whole family when I am out there and his mom comes over and tells the best stories about the old days that I could or would pay admission to hear. :cheers:
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hey bleu will you take me gold panning I would love to do that!!! Have you ever found any big amounts ? Now that is cool stuff!! And while I am out that way show you how to kill a parrot or two lol How come you have never talked about that before ?
 
i would happily help out & do some chores for a landowner... have a buddy wear we turkey hunt & have for almost 27-28 years a X-MASS card makes his day if not year!!! he will not take gifts or store brought goods it kinda insults him to offer goods for hunting found that out years ago but he will take home made salsa baked goods & recipes for the salsa & home maid foods but wont take gifts i love that guy!!!

he always has a spot cleared out for us to camp & leaves the fire ring for us we camp there 2-3 times a years & B/S with him when ever we see him but sometimes he just wants to get in his garden & be left alone lol cant blame him any way dose not take much to make a buddy for life happy some of us figured that out...
 
Hey! it's on order. :)

This year instead of the Honnybells, I sent off gifts of Tangelos, Navels, and pink Florida Grapefruit.
Honeybells aren't ready until mid Jan, These will be delivered on the 23rd of Dec.
 
I have to keep reminding myself that citrus fruit is an exotic present in parts of the US where the sun almost stops shining for parts of the year. I think I'm doing the right thing in drinking orange juice to avoid scurvy when I go East of The Divide.
We just had the area's Mandarin Festival. Where I live used to be the largest deciduous fruit producing area in the world. All gone now with the pear decline but I'm still going to make a sign up that says, "Will trade fruit for pheasants" and sit at the exit from the local supermarket. It should confuse everyone. Why would anyone try to trade fruit for a mythical bird?
 
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