I do not consider preserve hunts a sham. They do differ in quality and the hunters here have voiced a wide range of experiences. When you try one and have a good experience go back again and again. If it is not for you try another or hunt wild. But the other side of the coin is that hunters vary in quality also. Some would never kill a bird in the wild and need preserves to have any chance of success.

Maybe preserves are bigger where you live, but there are none in my neck of the wood that are 1000 acres. Most are about a third that or less. They try to make the most of what they have but you can only do so much with a few hundred acres.

The problem is that land has been cut up into smaller and smaller plots over the last 200 years. Not that many 1,000 acre spreads.

My farm of just over 600 was two seperate parts that I put togeather a few years ago. If I am lucky I might be able to buy another 200-300 acres in the next ten years but that is as large as my farm will ever be. With land prices going up more all the time it get too expensive to buy land. In fact if I had to buy my own farm today I could not and I have owned it for less than ten years.