The grass is not always greener

Have you ever dreamed about hunting places others get to hunt. Thinking that they had better chances at bigger deer. The old saying the grass is always greener on their side of the fence. But when you get a chance to talk to them they either are unhappy with where they hunt or they are looking for other places to hunt. I've done this with Texas, you hear about big Texas deer on many hunting shows. I got a chance to work in Dallas, TX and I talked to the local deer hunters and told them about me always wanting to hunt in TX. I was informed that unless you hunted the big ranches that were managing for trophy deer, that the average TX deer were small in most places. I was shocked to find that those hunters I talked with dreamed of hunting Alabama, where my home state is.
It made me reevaluate what I wanted in a hunting land. As I look at where the big deer in my home state came from in the past. I also realized that many of the trophies came off public land. It amazes me that people will pay large amounts of cash to hunt for potential trophies. When they could save that money and hunt public land for a better challenge and bigger trophies.
Recently an article was released that some of the many managed deer hunting ranches were buying their trophies from deer farms. This doesn't sound like fair chase. This is another reason I am a fan of public land. But to each their own.