No more Pig O Rama

[Tonopah01]

guess Tejon decided to go politcally correct. The hunts are now called Wild Pig Management Hunts in place of the good old Pig O Rama. Anyone know why?

 

[EMSFlyer]

Like you said, more PC. And its potentially a marketing draw to corporate types. It now sounds upscale and with a noble purpose, rather than just a "pig shoot". I have no doubt that with the new label will eventually come a "premium" price. Don't be surprised to see more European SUVs and Hummers sharing the trails with ya, too.

They must've gotten a starched-collar, corporate type from OC as a consultant. . .the more ya try to get away, the more they follow!

 

[superduty]

I hate to say it but I knew it was coming. The whole thing makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

Enjoy it while you still can boys.

 

[pbrdog]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (EMSFlyer @ May 8 2006, 11:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Like you said, more PC. And its potentially a marketing draw to corporate types. It now sounds upscale and with a noble purpose, rather than just a "pig shoot". I have no doubt that with the new label will eventually come a "premium" price. Don't be surprised to see more European SUVs and Hummers sharing the trails with ya, too.

They must've gotten a starched-collar, corporate type from OC as a consultant. . .the more ya try to get away, the more they follow!

[/b]

All the years I've been hunting out here, I can honestly say that I have never seen a Hummer, Escalade, Lexus, Mercedes in any of the places we go hunting. It seems that the people who own those things only off road in the mall or super market parking lots.

 

[Speckmisser]

Actually, I've seen a couple of Hummers at Tejon. Of course, those are the folks the Tejon guided hunts are marketed toward. At $900 to hunt a hog, $1200 to hunt a turkey, and upwards of 20 grand to hunt elk, that's definitely the place to see the Hummers and Land Rovers.

Anyway...

I do know the HuntTejon site has been calling them management hunts for quite a while, but hadn't heard that they were renaming the PORs. Maybe someone decided "Pig O Rama" was kind of a dated term?

Why is everyone so eager to attribute some sinister motive to every action? I don't get it. Life is way too short to spend it thinking negative.

 

[Orso]

With the proposed building of homes and such at Tejon, this is a good way to keep the hunting more sterile for the new families which will be moving in....when ever it gets approved.

 

[bigtusker]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>

At $900 to hunt a hog, $1200 to hunt a turkey[/b]

Spec, looks like I gotta raise my prices!

 

[Sully]

Hey Chopper, Those prices are for a guided hunt! Ha Ha

 

[Speckmisser]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>

Spec, looks like I gotta raise my prices![/b]

Ooh... don't talk like that. I'm already trying to see if I can budget a hunt at your place for later this year... but at $900!?!

Then again... I've always thought I'd enjoy guiding. For $900 a pop, I could finance that property I've been looking at in Livermore.

 

[switch]

My Tejon 2006-2007 hunting brochure states the following:

Wild Pig Management Hunt replaces our Pig-O-Rama. Same fun, just a new name.

Saw a Hummer out there on our Feb hunt. They only hunted Saturday and left pigless on sunday morning. No mud above the tire rims.

 

[Rancho Loco]

I don't see any sinister motive either..It's a wall-street traded company after all.

Although - did I notice a new title for Don Geivet - VP Ranch Operations?
I dunno about you guys, but that sounds like a dream job to me...If it were closer to the ocean of course.

 

[larrysogla]

Tejon Ranch is a giant real estate company. The hunting operations will soon be just drops in the bucket and will be eclipsed by the proposed humongous housing and commercial development in the high elevations. It will inevitably be an orphan in the corporate efforts and investor interests. It is always the way of developments and population densities. Sad. 'Nuff said.

 

[Jagermeister]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>

always thought I'd enjoy guiding. For $900 a pop, I could finance that property I've been looking at in Livermore.[/b]

Is it hunting property, Speck? Or are you going to move here? Shoot me an email to discuss, if you need any info about Liverwurst, I mean Livermore. Of course I am curious too.

George

 

[Speckmisser]

Hey Jaeger... it's a hunting/recreational property out on Mines Road.

Appreciate the offer for info, but I live right over the hills to your west. Until last month, I was working there in Livermore at the PG&E training center. But maybe we should meet to discuss anyway... over a pan of steamed brats and beer.

To all.. I meant to ask Barbara about the name change this weekend, but sleep deprivation tends to make for a shortened attention span, and it slipped my mind. I do intend to let ya'll know the official word on it though, as soon as I get it.

I find the change curious myself, and while I still don't see sinister anti-hunting overtones, I'm sure there is some corporate motive behind it... probably driven by lawyers and PR folks.

And while you may think the hunting is small "drop in the bucket", consider this...

The JHO POR brought Tejon $15,600 for the weekend. In order to realize this income, the only real outlay the ranch had to make was to rent the port-a-potty for the weekend. The staff support (Barbara, Cody, etc.) was already scheduled. A sold-out POR with all three areas open will bring in appx. $60,000 for a weekend. At 5 PORs a year, that's not chump change.

Add to that the memberships, guided hunts, and special hunts (like ours), and the hunting operation pays its own way and then some ... especially since the ranch is in agreement to maintain natural habitat anyway.

Anyway, I won't speculate further, but I'll provide the answer I get as soon as I get it.

 

[beastslayer]

It's just marketing, branding and corporate polical correctness in one package.

I used to work for heavily marketed brands competing with P&G (Procter & Gamble) and we use words such us: price (to describe "cheap"), value-added (expensive), mass-market (you, me and the entire middle class market), top-tiered (those who can afford Hummer), perceived (that's what the consumer think anyway), etc.