OG BONEY Spotted On YouTube

[10th Legionaire]

I'm a new kid around here so this may be old news because the video is at least four months old.

Watching a Meateater marathon yesterday they did an Osceola hunt on the invite of a local who put them on public ground birds.

OG BONEY shows up in the video at about 1:16 minute mark on the back of the local guys vest. Evidently Richard Martinez is a member here. I thought it was pretty cool BONEY was representing.

https://youtu.be/ryRzKbs9YT4?si=3XzZyf8k9xTiWVC7

[mlee3553]

That is very cool. I'm knew here as well just purchased my first boney patch looking forward to showing it off when our season opens up here in a couple weeks.

[1iagobblergetter]

Thats Kool! We have alot of Great members! Watched the video also..They cleaned up those public land birds!, Looked like a fun hunt!

[arkrem870]

Surprised the locals that hunt in the guides area didn't tar and feather him. Loose lips sink ships

[Paulmyr]

Richard is not a guide. He's the volunteer chairman for the local chapter of Backcountry Hunters and  Anglers. Group dedicated to the preservation and advocacy of public lands and introducing people to hunting and fishing.

Richard met the meateater at a fund raiser or other event I believe. Rhinella expressed his interest in hunting Florida and Richard gave him his number and told him start applying for permits.


When the permits were drawn a couple years later Rhinella called him up and Richard said come on down.

We interviewed Richard on our podcast. His knowledge of the Everglades really shines through.

[Paulmyr]

Richard met the meateater at a fund raiser or other event I believe. Rhinella expressed his interest in hunting Florida and Richard gave him his number and told him start applying for permits.


When the permits were drawn a couple years later Rhinella called him up and Richard said come on down.

I checked that info and Rhinella did a live podcast from a Backcountry hunters and anglers convention.

[Cut N Run]

Pretty cool to see. 

I have the Boney patch with a gobbler in each hand at the same place on my vest.

If you know, you know.

Jim

[Sanders153]

Pretty cool to see. 

I have the Boney patch with a gobbler in each hand at the same place on my vest.

If you know, you know.

Jim

Ahh the 2014.. That is a unique vintage one, hard to find to

[arkrem870]

Richard is not a guide. He's the volunteer chairman for the local chapter of Backcountry Hunters and  Anglers. Group dedicated to the preservation and advocacy of public lands and introducing people to hunting and fishing.

Richard met the meateater at a fund raiser or other event I believe. Rhinella expressed his interest in hunting Florida and Richard gave him his number and told him start applying for permits.


When the permits were drawn a couple years later Rhinella called him up and Richard said come on down.

We interviewed Richard on our podcast. His knowledge of the Everglades really shines through.

Florida residents are raising cane about the amount of non resident hunters in their state. All over social media. Etc. and lobbying for non resident restrictions.

Meateater is one of or possibly the biggest influencer pimping out public lands .......... Is 15 min of fame by an experienced Florida resident worth putting a million of eyes on your hunting spot?  Western hunting - draw odds etc have been devastated since meateater/and others put them on roast.  Florida more than any other state has been pimped by the influencers and feeling the squeeze. Yet people still celebrate this behavior.......loose lips sink ships. Been saying it for years now. Pull your head out of the sand.

[arkrem870]

I didnt and won't watch. But why does it matter if I know where they are? They prob have a 1/2 million people watching. Maybe more. If 1% is influenced to put in for Florida quota hunt based off what they saw.....That's 5000 more applicants chasing limited tags. Pushing out locals. And others. The ones that don't draw may well end up on no quota locations.....after they consume pinhoti project and the like

This isn't a theory. It's been proven in a state we discuss regularly......Mississippi. Among others. Loose lips sink ships.  You know it and I know it.

[10th Legionaire]

I sure as heck didn't start this thread to fire folks up over the pimping of areas to hunt and fish. I just thought it was cool that BONEY was on the tube.

The loose lips thing first came on my radar in the late '60's or early'70's reading articles by Homer Circle in Sports Afield magazine. Homer was decrying the what's now termed "spot burn" being put out there by other writers.

Yeah it's not the best but guides and outfitters have been in the business of spot burning for years and years. I just recently watched a video called Silver King; The Birth of Big Game Fishing. It centers around tarpon fishing in the Ft. Meyers/Sanibel Island area in the early 1900's. Tarpon fishing in that area pretty much exploded the growth of the whole area from a handful of fish camps to what it is today.

Not cool but it ain't ever gonna stop unfortunately.

[10th Legionaire]

Another Boney sighting on YouTube

Spotted this years patch at 13:46 or so in this video

https://youtu.be/LZ_pS4HkMpU?si=K-1fPKOckfN5XTsp

[Paulmyr]

Richard is not a guide. He's the volunteer chairman for the local chapter of Backcountry Hunters and  Anglers. Group dedicated to the preservation and advocacy of public lands and introducing people to hunting and fishing.

Richard met the meateater at a fund raiser or other event I believe. Rhinella expressed his interest in hunting Florida and Richard gave him his number and told him start applying for permits.


When the permits were drawn a couple years later Rhinella called him up and Richard said come on down.

We interviewed Richard on our podcast. His knowledge of the Everglades really shines through.

Florida residents are raising cane about the amount of non resident hunters in their state. All over social media. Etc. and lobbying for non resident restrictions.

Meateater is one of or possibly the biggest influencer pimping out public lands .......... Is 15 min of fame by an experienced Florida resident worth putting a million of eyes on your hunting spot?  Western hunting - draw odds etc have been devastated since meateater/and others put them on roast.  Florida more than any other state has been pimped by the influencers and feeling the squeeze. Yet people still celebrate this behavior.......loose lips sink ships. Been saying it for years now. Pull your head out of the sand.

Are you kidding me? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know you can hunt turkeys in every state the Continental US and have been able to for some time and a person certainly don't need to watch the Meateater to know this fact.

Pull my head out of the sand? Quite frankly your continuing comments on this matter are getting quite stale. Your crying over spilt milk attitude and scapegoating highlight your selfish "turkeys for me and none for thee" attitude.

Obviously your not in the group that thinks the biggest risk to the future of turkey and all hunting for that matter is the voice of the hunter becoming obsolete. Being drown out by increasing populations who could care less about whether or not you get to hunt and have no qualms about voting for politicians advocating for the  removal of your hunting privileges. It's happening already! This group would most likely tell you to "Pull your head out if the sand!"

[arkrem870]

So the guys hunting and filming for profit on public land are the good guys. And the ones that have been warning of the consequences of loose lips are selfish bad guys. What a crock... if you haven't felt the squeeze of loose lip policies you are lying to your self or you aren't a turkey hunter period. Gobblers are a finite resource....hunt because you love it. Not for likes from strange men.   

And If you haven't noticed we are currently losing our opportunity with limited draws, later season structure on public lands, limit decreases that target public land hunters, limited tags etc.  Alabama/mississippi/georgia/ohio/kansas/nebraska/oklahoma/South Carolina and many more....... it's HUNTERS that are driving this trend forward by pressuring their DNR due to increased pressure . It's not the non hunting masses your speak of.....FACT

[Paulmyr]

Whatever!

You were bad mouthing Richard Martinez the "Volunteer" Chairman of the Backwater Hunters and Anglers. A group dedicated to introducing new hunters and fisherman to the possibilities available if your not rich and/or don't own land. They are well aware of the battle for lost hunting privileges due to political pressure from antis's.


If you don't think the anti's are coming for your hunting privileges through legislation and political pressure keep your head in the sand. Just ask the folks in Wa. who recently lost spring bear, hound hunting for cougars, and more recently are coming after standard hunting practices for cougars with looming harvest reductions that are not supported by the biology. Or better yet  the reversal of newly enacted wolf hunting seasons because they're supposedly still endangered, come on up to Mn and I'll show you the wolf scat that litters the forest roads or maybe we can howl at the moon and listen to all the replies of this so called endangered species.

The many regs changes you speak of tried to reverse a trend in dropping turkey populations thought to be a result of over harvesting gobblers early in the season.  New light has come to bear on this matter and studies are showing later season start dates don't help and should be reversed. Tennessee will be reversing the later season start dates and the others should follow suit. Reduced limits are an effort to curb dropping populations that seems to be a result of poor habitat.

Ms limited non resident because of the influx of new hunters after the season changes in surrounding states and because its neighboring state Arkansas does a poor job of managing its habitat for turkeys and barely has season but I'm sure your aware of that fact.


I get it. You don't want any new turkey hunters crowding you out. Turkeys for me and none for thee.