Never did need to pay in the Texas Panhandle. I did ante up $25 once with AmarilloMike but that’s all. I’m fortunate—have too much land available to pay. I’m old enough to have grown up in a time when ranchers begged hunters to come shoot all the deer they wanted in the hill country free. Now it’s thousands of dollars. Fortunately our ranch is covered up now with both whitetail and mule deer (and I haven’t shot one!).

Quail hunting has become expensive for those without land. Very expensive!

When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)