Well....the Turner's have thier hands on the the New Mexican's land too, huh? Ted's name and the words "West Nile Disease", create equal thoughts for the MT people. I have to keep myself calm when I try and talk about Ted and Jane. As probably everyone knows "Ted" has been raping us Montanans for many years now and is causing great harm to our residents by drying up our already "poor" economy. Ted has already bought up 100s of thousands of acres of prime MT lands and he simply uses his "elite" power in our government to weasel more land he wants if money will not be accepted by unwilling landowners. MT is only a land where this man can run his thousands of buffalo, cattle, and sell out his wildlife to the wealthy etc. So, the guy makes more millions for his money collection here, but will not keep but 1,000 of it here to boost our state! Not 1,000! He flys here back and forth on his jets, camps out in his endless ranches in the mountians, while resident hunters stand outside his fences asking to simply hunt one of the elk on his spread for thier freezer. But NO, he is too "big" to talk to a Montanan, he has to let his cowboys or outfitters do the talking and the answer is, "No sir, Ted needs that old cow elk for his paying nonresident clients, you'll just have to go and fight for one of those rangey, spooky, and overhunted elk on the public lands that Ted hasn't got around to buying from the government yet, ok?". Ted has now bought his way from Western MT and is now at central MT, buying and swaping land on the prairie now. He should have bought his way up to my NE corner in not many years from now, so that I have to do my hanging out in ND. I will not get into "Ted", but how anyone could think of supporting such a criminal of humanity is beyond me! If you do decide to go ahead and pay him the money for a turkey, may I suggest where you can give him the check? Off line of course. :oops: Forgetting Ted, why would anyone even pay cash for a turkey if there is places still left in the country were you could hunt one for nothing but a resident or nonresident tag? I have always beleived that if a man plans his own hunt: the right load, where the birds are, where you can hunt them, and how you can get into them, etc., and execute your plan while doing it as cost efficiently as possible, than the bird you will bag will be a "real" bird, and not a "paid" bird. You will have your own story of the hunt all the way through to the end, and you can smile knowing you accomplished this hunt fair and square! This is the way "real" hunting was, and still is to this day. We hunters just have to cut out all of this BULL of people always handing over money to other people to get thier ideal hunt or just have an outfitter settup and hunt the animals for us. Well, my answer is in there somewhere if you pick it out. I hope you concider the "old" way of hunting that is still here today, and take your "real" bird, and then tell us all about it! Good luck to you.
Huntrap
