Don't you just love all the new acreages

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I'll be the first to say a person has the right to develop or sell their land to whom ever they wish however, I just have to vent a bit.

I've had a good relation with many land owners over the years and have had the good fortune of having permission to hunt on their land but as these owners age and move to town developers are buying up everything and putting acreages every where. As each quarter of land gets sold the no hunting signs go up. As it stands my current spot is now bordered on three sides by quarters set to be chopped up. Perhaps a year or two and that will be it.
I'll still be able to hunt on the piece where I am but the deer will be chased out by all the construction, quads tearing around etc etc...

I do not have the time off to go for a week to good areas of crown land and circumstances keep me close to home. This is starting to wear me down and I wonder how much longer it will be till I have to call it quits. Hopefully there will be enough years left for my young son to grow to the point where he can go off on his own with his friends. Right now he comes with me and is really getting into hunting. Last year he shot his first deer and is chomping at the bit to get at it this year. If it were just me I could call it a great career of hunting and just go blast at the range for fun but I worry for him.

Again I'll say a man has a right to do as he wishes with his own land but for those of us without the means to buy a big patch of land it f'ing sucks
 
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Very true but in Sask. the pop is not going up that much. Seems that every one and his dog wants their own little kingdom. I just do not see the joy taking a beautiful piece of land and turning it into a suburban hell of oversized generic houses on oversized generic yards.
 
powdergun said:
Very true but in Sask. the pop is not going up that much. Seems that every one and his dog wants their own little kingdom. I just do not see the joy taking a beautiful piece of land and turning it into a suburban hell of oversized generic houses on oversized generic yards.
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Unfortunately it’s not about joy, it’s about money. Either way that sucks, Id be mad too.
 
Me either however these hipster people who want to live off the land and grow there own vegetables. They Can afford an acreage for 400 thousand a lot better then they can a crappy 900 sq ft house in Toronto for 500 thousand average. 360 is the average in city home no?This is why the no hunting signs go up. Unfortunately they were brainwashed somewhere along the time they were born and moved there. They are hellbent on making firearms antiquated illegal possessions. No amount of logical sense seems to penetrate these vapid people who cannot think for themselves... Yet who can somehow think for everyone else. Go figure. The truth is we're all human, no other creature has to destroy or consume the environment to live in comfort yet these people somehow think there different and have some sort or moral duty to "protect". Protect the environment, animals from evil hunters, and other people from other people with firearms. It's the boogeyman senerio while all along they use fossil fuels and support factory farming yet preach because there the righteous. They are usually very selfish and self involved caring only about themselves ultimately, It's sad because much of human culture can be whitewashed, and lost by stupidity and ignorance. The question I always ask myself is how much must we lose, and surrender before we progress and elevate as a human society. Especially when over half the world believes in sorcery and magic ? It's insanity at its best almost like the defining definition of what some human culture is. Just my two cents
 
Yes I am on it already but the issue is distance for me. My only opportunities are evenings after work and free weekends are few and far between. I figure in about 5-10 years anything within a half hours drive will be gone. I know most go much further to hunt. I just hate to see prime wildlife land being turned into yuppie ville.

A while back I drove home through the east kootenays after a being gone for quite a few years. The development in areas where I hunted as a kid was sickening. Living with nature does not mean bulldozing trees for 4000 sq ft houses and manicured lawns then tearing up everything else with the motorized toys.
 
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kamlooky said:
Don't forget that weekly, monthly, yearly lotto ticket......
You just never know.
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If I ever hit the big one first thing would be is to drive for a couple of hours away from the BS and buy the biggest hunk of prime bush I could get. I'd build a small cabin in the middle of it and post the following all around it.

NO DEVELOPERS OR TREE HUGGERS ALLOWED. IF YOU WANT TO HUNT AND KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG POP IN AND WE CAN PLAN OUR HUNT ( TRANSPORTATION BY SHOE LEATHER ONLY )
 
$$ talks. As you get closer to the cities, you see acreages with great big "out-do your neighbor" houses, with a $30,000 yard tractor, a big pickup, huge boat, 97' 5th wheel holiday trailer, expensive SUV, and more in the yard. Developers are hosing these people good and proper, but when the money is pouring in from fancy jobs, who cares?

There is no easy way out of this if you live near these developments, other than move further away. I am lucky. I live in a nice little town 80 miles from Regina. Not far enough, but fairly quiet. I had a cabin at Crooked Lake. It had been our family getaway for nearly 60 years. The place was becoming overrun with city slickers with boats the size of the Queen Mary, quads ripping around all over the place, those stupid sea-doos, and so on. When the lease on the two lots went from $1100 a year to $7400 a year, I bailed. Broke my heart, but I had no choice.

I know how you feel when you watch your old hunting grounds slowly disappear. Over the years I have watched the little old roads and trails I used to hunt along being bulldozed wider to accommodate big machinery. The old country roads where I could walk along and usually scare up a bush partridge on a nice Fall afternoon are almost all gone now. My Dad and I hunted along those roads when I was a kid, over 50 years ago.

I still hunt. I still enjoy carrying a gun on a sunny, crisp Fall afternoon. Supper still tastes good when I get home. Things change, and I guess we either go along or lose out.
 
It isn't anybody's fault , and it isn't anybody's financial plan.

Everyone has the right to life.Some can afford more than others but everyone deserves a place to live in comfort.

You can't blame the hippies or the developers.It is what happens when populations grow.When there is no more growing out then the growth will go up.

Japan is a fine example.

When the world population gets to be more than the planet will bear then disease and famine will help mother nature reduce the numbers and then things will go back to a less crowded affair.

I moved out of the city , and boy did I get an earful from folks I know that farm.So I asked where do you expect people to go?Just not on my land I was told!!!

Always selfish people out there , look at the upside, wanna live in India?
 
I hope I am around when the money taps shut off and they will. Remember oil and resources is boom and bust. Years ago when it was bust the hunting was never better. My house isn't big or pretty and I don't have the toys but what I have is paid for. When it does go bust there just may be a bit of good land going cheap. And if I ever do own some land there is no way in hell it will ever get chopped up for acreages.

Yes everyone has a right to live as they wish but do you really have to f' up everything in the process. On the positive note there are some municipalities in the province that are trying to slow down this sprawl.
 
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Kelly Timoffee said:
It isn't anybody's fault , and it isn't anybody's financial plan.

Everyone has the right to life.Some can afford more than others but everyone deserves a place to live in comfort.

You can't blame the hippies or the developers.It is what happens when populations grow.When there is no more growing out then the growth will go up.

Japan is a fine example.

When the world population gets to be more than the planet will bear then disease and famine will help mother nature reduce the numbers and then things will go back to a less crowded affair.

I moved out of the city , and boy did I get an earful from folks I know that farm.So I asked where do you expect people to go?Just not on my land I was told!!!

Always selfish people out there , look at the upside, wanna live in India?
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As much as I don't like the cities getting bigger, you have a good point.
 
powdergun said:
Very true but in Sask. the pop is not going up that much. Seems that every one and his dog wants their own little kingdom. I just do not see the joy taking a beautiful piece of land and turning it into a suburban hell of oversized generic houses on oversized generic yards.
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Well.......you appear to want your own little kingdom as well.
 
Everybody wants their own little piece of Heaven. For most of them it's just more grass to mow and further to drive to work. :)

Grizz
 
blasted_saber said:
Well.......you appear to want your own little kingdom as well.
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I guess you are right but there is one small difference. My little slice won't have a big house on it or any house for that matter, it won't be subdivided into little 3-10 acre plots, and there won't be any bullbozers reshaping the land.

There is all kinds of land around that has little to no value as wildlife habitat that could be reclaimed for acreages but everyone wants a piece of nature. Just saying that it is shame good habitat gets destroyed when it doesn't have to. As for me it I can always find a place to hunt and sooner or later I'll have the time. And as I said earlier this boom of money will go bust sooner or later. Many of these acreages are folks extending themselves waaaaaayyyy to far financially.
 
From a landowners point of view, I could make more money subdividing 3-10 acre plots than farming it. Capitalism unfortunately.
 
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