Not feeling the love....wing shooting is supposed to be fun AND freindly. Does everyone need a hug?
No problem here at all Reaper and you are exactly 100% right! "Good thing you are here otherwise nobody would know what to think" and if I wasn't here providing my input and knowledge of what a half day dove hunt costs our inexperienced forum members would be getting screwed by paying $200 for one.
The issue is it's a F'ing "rip off", does that make any sense whatsoever? As I posted earlier I have a Mossberg 500 12 gauge for sale for $750, send me a money order and I'll make "sure" I get it sent to you.... Wake up and smell the coffee, that's a scam!
It's as screwed up as the housing market was from 2002-2006 when an 1800 Sq' house was selling for $350K plus, now valued at less than $200K. Wouldn't things have been different if people had just said "hey, that's a F'ing "rip off", houses should be selling for $100 a Sq', not $200 a Sq.!
Obviously, you don't get it or understand! This is one of the main reasons alot of folks who are FL natives (my wifes entire family - 4 generations, still kicking) are moving back to the South into GA, SC, and AL, since this place has turned into a big scam and it obviously continues!
Thanks again, but I'll drive 4 hours to GA, pay my $80 for fuel (non-resident license $295.00) and $50 to hunt doves and actually enjoy the SOUTH, without having to think about whether or not I got F'ing scammed into shooting 15 doves for $200!
Not feeling the love....wing shooting is supposed to be fun AND freindly. Does everyone need a hug?
Wingshooter, I agree. I'm just tired of every corner you turn here in FL someone is "on the take".
Find us a place to shoot some doves for a $100 a day or less and I'd been happy to drive!
I have thought about putting in the time and energy to put together a place to shoot dove birds. Have even talked to a few land owners in the past, and get the same general response; I don't want my cows shot at or disturbed or have to clean up a bunch of litter, and the latest one, (thanks to the lawyer profession) what about my liability if someone gets injured. It takes a big effort to get something like a dove shoot off the ground. So, I will join the crowd and cringe at the price of dove hunting. My opinion of 200 $$ per hunter is high, just twenty hunters per weekend brings in a gross 4 thousand $$. Three hunts a month is starting to add up, 12 grand. So i will go back to hunting public land or maybe this year join the FWC dove club.
Reaper, not TCReaper. I think you will find this is a more blue collar crowd that simply can't afford those kind of exorbitant rates, and those that could would refuse. sure some people will pay 25,000$ for an elk hunt but I don't think you will find many of them here. I don't know you from Adam so I'm assuming you were just passing info along and am not for shooting the messenger.
