Those rice field blinds became a rope-a-dope years ago.........the hunting down river in Venice is harder, but worth it when you put it all down.
I find that every VP of Mukity-Muck Inc. has gone out and bought a Benelli and thinks he is a duck hunter.........wants to walk to his blind, sky blast and talk about how great his day was..........that attitude towards what we love has driven the price out the roof.
Look, I entertain quite a bit as well, but my PERSONAL hunting has moved back to push poling and small sizing.
I do have a few customers that appreciate that and are hard hunters and will make the hunts with us........but then I have those that show up with stickers on thier guns and have no earthly idea how to hunt. Those are the guys where the "show" is important, and why all those rice field blinds get gobbled up......We moved up to timber brakes in Tensas just for these guys.......and now I let the saleman take them and pull "executive" privilege and just take the real hunters.
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