Admiral Alum- I've seen people runs ads on CL in my area offering to trap critters or shoot yotes. I don't know how successful they are in my rural areas. Landowners probably have their choice of people that they'll let in to hunt or trap. Pheasant hunting is big bussiness here in South Dakota. You can't get on decent pheasant land without rolling off at least a few Ben Franklins a day unless you're extremely tight with someone. I refuse to do that so I hunt the dregs of public land or "road hunting" which is legal here.
I've run ads on CL about trapping before. When muskrats were so high in prices a few years back, I ran an add saying I'd go in as a partner if they'd let me trap their wetland that had mrat huts (because that year our public sloughs around here were all dried up). Never got a taker. I ran an add a few years back towards landowners in a couple of very rural counties East River seeing if they would give me a break for my 2 young teenage sons a chance to shoot a buck deer (our deer hunting in SD is by lottery by various units--mostly county based). We had gotten turned down for licenses on a big national wildlife refugee that allows deer hunting that fall and the only thing left where a buck might be a possible connection were these very rural counties. I didn't (still don't) have multiple Uncle Bens to hunt deer as well. No responses except a Native American who wanted to sell me his resrevation licenses. I politely declined that offer.
The boys got lucky however on some public land in one the very rural counties and each got a buck as their first deer. I've shot plenty of does so getting a buck isn't my big drive (won't turn one down if one appears in front of me though). Like most things else, money talks and bu****it walks...
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