new spot!

ivorytip

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found a new spot for deer! finally got permission to cross over private land to attack 9,000 acres of BLM!!! 2 mile hike in to BLM and then let the area unfold itself to me. so excited to check it out in a couple of weeks. Very stoked!
 

ivorytip

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thanks! what's funny is ive been eyeballing that chunk of land locked BLM land for a lot of years, landowners always said no just to cross their land to get to "OUR" land. I found some access yes property that I was going to check out and on way there this ole gal was on side of road in a big old truck and a flat. she had here spare but no jack, I changed her tire out for her and we got to BS'ng. her husband had owned a bunch of that land that was land locking the BLM. turns out, he passed away 2 years ago and she was holding fort down with 2 of her boys, running cattle and whatnot. long story short... before we took off she was handing me a $50.00 bill, I said no way, she insisted and I just couldn't take it, she said well what can I do for ya then....(shes in her 70's so lets not go there) ha, I said well, your land keeps ne from hunting a whole bunch of public land that's a couple miles behind your property, if I can have access through your land to get there ill be your best friend all the rest of my life. she said ok! she said I could hunt her land after cows get hauled off in October. I try to hunt only public land though, just something about it. sure it might be land locked but its still public. back in a spot my old man use to always tell us stories about, where he would always hunt growing up until access was taken away. felt like Christmas!
 

MuleyHunter

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That is super cool and congrats ! My dad has the same stories about places they use to hunt back in the 60's and 70's that are land locked, but they could get thru the private back then.

I have places that the BLM locked us out of in the 80's here in Colorado that I use to hunt and trap that my kids have never seen.... Pretty sad !

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7shot

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Way to go!! That is good Karma right there. Have a great time in the BLM land, we hope to see some photos of your hunt.