Trial or Pre-Membership Hunts

What a dumb thing for anyone to ask and an immediate membership disqualification.

We do not provide any pre-membership hunts or tours. This requires some explanation as it continues to surprise us that folks have the audacity to request of a business that business' services for free.

It is the fully paid membership that has the rights to the land and its wildlife. We will not violate that trust. Allowing day hunts, pre-membership hunts, etc., would only add pressure to the land and increase office administration costs detracting from the membership's hunt quality.

Additionally, most people would agree that if we did allow trial hunts there would be a good many folks out there that would attempt to take advantage of gaining a free hunt on good private land without any intentions of joining the association.

This policy is also enforced against current members that are attempting to get their friends to join. If a member wishes to give a guest hunt (that rae highly restricted) to a friend the member must do so in strict compliance with our guest pass regulation.

A dumb analogy provided by another to overcome our thinking on this topic explained that no one buys clothes or a house without trying those clothes on or touring the house interior prior to purchase. The failing of this logic is that the clothes fitting or house tour does not consume the product and that product (clothes or house) is available to others that may want to buy. Hunter pressure on the land once applied has consumed that resource. The very reason that our telephone reservation system counts each reservation as a hunter pressure day for that land regardless of who or how hard anyone may actually have hunted it.

Enough said. No one needs talk to us about this topic.

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