The post about 32 year old youngster complaining about the cost and commercialization of hunting reminded me about an interesting find I came across last hunting season.
In the past couple of years, I have managed to thumb through a pile of old magazines, circa early-late 1980s, my landowner had in boxes in the main cabin. I spent some of my down time just enjoying go through all the old articles, perusing the ads and looking at the equipment we had way back when. I even found a few Buckmasters in there with a young and spry Jackie Bushman....
As I read through the "letters to the editor" in an early 80s magazine, a few of the replies to articles struck me as interesting. You see, even back then, there were people complaining about the high cost of $200 leases, pricing the good ole boys out of the market, the high cost of licenses, the high cost of equipment and how much hunting had become a business and about the almighty dollar. There were even complaints about too many ads in the very magazine I was reading.... and TTH would have made this magazine look like a dissertation....
That was almost 30 years ago.
I was amazed to see that the same talk went on back then just like it goes on today. Folks are still complaining about the same stuff like it is some recent phenomenon now....when, in fact, it probably went on years before these mags were even published.
Why does it happen? I guess every year the price gets to high for somebody different and it becomes something new to them, but then again I think some folks just like to complain. It gives them something to do...lol...
Anyway, I found it interesting that even back then that hunting was too commercial, too expensive and would be the downfall of hunting and here we are 30 years later saying the same....
Discuss..
In the past couple of years, I have managed to thumb through a pile of old magazines, circa early-late 1980s, my landowner had in boxes in the main cabin. I spent some of my down time just enjoying go through all the old articles, perusing the ads and looking at the equipment we had way back when. I even found a few Buckmasters in there with a young and spry Jackie Bushman....
As I read through the "letters to the editor" in an early 80s magazine, a few of the replies to articles struck me as interesting. You see, even back then, there were people complaining about the high cost of $200 leases, pricing the good ole boys out of the market, the high cost of licenses, the high cost of equipment and how much hunting had become a business and about the almighty dollar. There were even complaints about too many ads in the very magazine I was reading.... and TTH would have made this magazine look like a dissertation....
That was almost 30 years ago. I was amazed to see that the same talk went on back then just like it goes on today. Folks are still complaining about the same stuff like it is some recent phenomenon now....when, in fact, it probably went on years before these mags were even published.
Why does it happen? I guess every year the price gets to high for somebody different and it becomes something new to them, but then again I think some folks just like to complain. It gives them something to do...lol...
Anyway, I found it interesting that even back then that hunting was too commercial, too expensive and would be the downfall of hunting and here we are 30 years later saying the same....
Discuss..
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