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Like to hear of some unique gifts y'all give to landowners that allow you to hunt their land. A group of us hunt prairie grouse on a ranch in Nebraska every September. I suspect the owner could buy the four of us and everything we own. He doesn't hunt, doesn't drink and has no known hobbies---just watches the cows and bales hay. I've wracked my brain every fall trying to think of something that says how much we appreciate him giving us the run of 110,000 acres and some excellent grouse and chicken hunting.
Steve
"Every one must believe in something, I believe I'll go hunting today."
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Buy him a pair of binos. He can watch from afar.
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I bought a spotting scope with a tripod for one nice older couple. Ended up setting it up on the kitchen table and the lady of the house could watch her birds on the back fence like they were in the room. Later I gave her a guide to birds that were native to her area and she would check off each type when she saw one. Her husband told me that she use to sit there and drink coffee and watch the birds off and on for hours a day. He never forgot the gift. Both are sadly gone now.
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Most farmers I know have a Lincoln red transformer welder (AC buzz box) and possibly a torch set- so I give them some GP stick rod ( 1/8" dia 6011 and 6013) and items for their torch set- spark lighters, extra tip cleaners- and for the lady of the house- some real shelled walnuts or pecans or real MI maple syrup- Have a major dairy farmer where I shoot barn pigeons, woodchucks and 'yotes, and waterfowl in the Fall- just learned something the other day- son-in-law and I mark all the 'chuck' holes we find after a cutting- best to use the plastic markers (Cable-TV-Miss Dig) and NOT the ones with steel wire- even small dia. wire like that can mess up the cutter heads when they are getting the alfalfa off-There isn't enough we can do for the farmers who give us open permission to be on their lands-RWTF!!
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Being a rancher in younger years I would go with the Bino's. Back then most I knew figured all bino's were the same and got them for ten bucks at the local mart and let them bounch on the floor of their truck.When I would give a friend a good pair they couldn't belive the difference and you would fine the new Binoc's in the case on the dash or hanging from the gun rack.
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Binos, what a great idea! Added benefit, he always scouts out the best areas to hunt and gives us a tour of the ranch every trip. Now he can spot 'em farther away, especially if he's using decent glass for the first time.
Steve
"Every one must believe in something, I believe I'll go hunting today."
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As a landowner...I wouldn't mind a neon "No Trespassing" sign!
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Lowell want to bet on how long it would last?
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An hour or two after I plugged it in?
It would end-up on someome's front porch - right over the sofa thats next to the old Pepsi machine that is now filled with Bud Lite.
Last edited by Lowell Glenthorne; 07/30/08 06:17 PM.
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Or broken by rocks, bb's or shotgun blast done on a driveby.
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