Well some people are all about quanity and some are about quality. Reserves tend to cater to those who want to kill a large bag limit, fairly easily. No sin in this but it is like dating a hooker and thinking that she went ot bed with you because you got lucky. It is a bussiness, not a labor of love, same for the reserves.

Many with small land areas are very limited in what they can do. Cover and realistic hunting situations are impossible to present very well in less than several hundred acres. Not trying to be a snob but cover, safe rest areas and multiple feed plots take up a lot of space. If a reserve has one feed plots, two areas of cover and no areas that birds are safe from hunter then finding them is about a simple as 1,2,3 and just about as much fun.

The only thing less fun than a poor reserve is being the hunter at a feild trial. Here Bob throw that duck up in front of me so I can kill it for the dog. Now wait until I can not miss. Throw it that direction. Wait until the dog is looking at us. No fun for at all in this. Might as well ring their necks and shoot blanks.