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So the guide services have their set fields that they lease up. they take clients out there and they offer great hunts to these people who may be from out of town or out of state. something that they probably couldn't do on their own. You're telling me that if these guide services didn't have these fields leased up some other private hunting group wouldn't jump all over the opportunity to have some of these fields to themselves? I would bet my truck that i could hop in it right now, drive out of rochester 5-10 minutes and find a field to hunt and gain permission for it.

the worst part about guiding is that you have to have your pitted fields where the "blue jean wearing" clients can stay warm. they don't want to sit in layout blinds to shoot their geese.

be mobile, ask permission and shoot your birds. quit complaining about guide services. if you guys would take the time spent copying and pasting what other people write on here and forming your own complaints about what each person says and spend that time getting permission you'd probably have pretty good success. It feels pretty good when you do it yourself and shoot more birds than the biggest guides in rochester. give it a try!!

Kicker

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Kicker, I have to imagine that "copy and paste" remark was aimed at me, fairly so. I don't quite understand your message as it seems a little contradictory. So I will explain.

Would a private group lease the land if a guide didn't? Unforunately, your probably right. I don't like that either, private clubs are no better than guides (my biggest gripe isn't with guiding, but rather the leasing of land). Don't worry, I spend plenty of time scouting and knocking on doors. I am taking half the day Friday off so I can drive 1 1/2 hours to a place that may or may not have birds. I can also guarantee that our crew does better than most guiding services.

Where I disagree with you is that someone isn't capable of showing up from another area and having success. If you know what your doing and you do the slightest bit of scouting, there is no reason anyone can't have success, even if they aren't from the area.

We see the guiding pinch here in Nodak. I grew up about 60 miles from Devils Lake, and although it is possible to find land to hunt on without paying access, it is a friggin clown show to try and hunt it. The quality of hunting in Nodak is going down the tubes and the sole reason for that is the outrageous leasing of land. I don't fault the landowner because what are they supposed to do when someone throws money (sometimes ALOT of money) at them. I don't think alot of sportsmen realize the consequences of their actions on our sport as a whole when they participate in leasing. If guys only realized that they DON'T often have to lease land to find a spot, then hunting in MN, ND would be that much better for everyone.

And showing up in the morning, handing a guy a couple of benjamins in your blue jeans to sit in a heated blind...that's not hunting, that's shooting. Hunting involves scouting, it involves outsmarting your quarry, it involves cleaning your game after the hunt.

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