Hunting Lease

Yeh, your right IBgunner, I'd hate to have to write a check for that amount too. But, when you consider the purchase price of the land, interest on the money to buy it, taxes, and insurance, $10 isn't really to far out of line I don't guess.
And I agree with you. In this heat, they'd have to pay me to get out golfing.
 
We have a lot of National Forest in Virginia. However, the downside to that is that everyone who can afford a gun and think they're Mr.Hunter can go hunt it. Yes, we do have Hunter's safety courses which everyone must take before their licenesed. However, if you catch the right teenager working the counter they don't check for your completion form. I've been in National forest and have two hunters trot right by while I was in blaze orange. I even had one guy exclaim I'm sorry I didn't see you. I was in a make shift blind when one guy walked through my shooting lane I was watching. He saw the blaze orange, through up his hand to wave, then turned walked about 10 paces to a tree and peed on it. Then went on his marry way. Needless to say I now only hunt private land. I had to do it the old fashioned way knock on doors in areas that looked promising from the road. It helps sometimes to promise the landowner a little venison. One of my hunting partners recieves a lot of his deer hunting permission by asking to hunt yotes. After he downs a few usaually the landowner will tell him to take a deer if he wants.

Some guys or hunt clubs around here offer to pay the taxes on a landowners peice of property for hunting priveledges, which what I assume to be a lease. Interesting thread here, I've enjoyed reading all the responses, and look forward to more.
 
I really feel sorry for you guys that have to pay to hunt. Out west we have millions and millions of acres of public land to hunt.

B&C animals? Every one of the 11 Western states has put a few in the book.

The good part about it is many if not most of those animals come off of public land....our land.

I'm sorry, I guess I'm just spoiled.
 
We have 7,000 acres of public hunting within six miles of the farm but you can't call coyotes on it until after bird season because you never know where the bird hunters are and they keep the yotes awfully wary. No good for anything but small bucks and does because it is so heavily hunted during deer season. Normally I hunt that ground only when the weather is so bad that only a fool would be on it. Yeah, the fool is me. Super Bowl Sunday and NFL Playoffs are another good time to hit it. February - April can be pretty good for calling. I hunt another 12,000 acres in North Central Kansas but only after opening weekend of pheasant season then I pretty much have a private hunting preserve until rifle deer season. During both those times I stay clear for the reasons VirginiaCoyote gave. A guy doesn't need a lot of acres for upland game or deer especially if he knows the ground well. Coyotes are a different story. You can only hit small acreages a few times a year or you'll educate them and they'll become call shy. I'd think that Eastern hunters would be at a distinct disadvantage where that's concerned. Out west on public land is the place to do a lot of coyote calling.
 
I think it would be great to have public land to hunt on, but here I can control our deer herd within reason, no one can come by and kill anything they want, No one is going to pee on a tree by my stand, we feed protein to better the herd, manage it with help from a TP&W biologist, and I think you get what you pay for. Sure there are B&C bucks on public land in the west and north, but thats from natural diet. Only few parts of Texas have the kind of forage to let a deer get that big naturally. Plus, too many hunters shoot the first thing with horns that walks by. Just my opinion, but I think the freedom we get by virtue of paying the money makes up for the difference in public land and private. PLUS, we dont have to worry about not getting a tag. In most of the western states, if you dont get drawn, your S.O.L. When you think about that, I would rather pay to hunt so I am guranteed some meat on the table.
 
I think anybody that gets a B&C animal at a pay to hunt reserve should have an (*) next to it in the book. My wife's cousin raises BIG BUCKS and has had several people pay thou$and$ to stick there rifle thru the chain link fence and shoot a trophy, load it in the truck, then make up some big hunt story on the way home.
Just my opinion... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
i pay $3 an acre for 1200 ac in kent co,tx with year round access and deer,doves,quail,ducks,turkeys, and varmints. it has 2 lakes and one stock tank. the only bad thing is its a 1 buck county.
public land is nice but i like having my own place where i wont run into anyone else. i have hunted in new mexico for a long time with some friends and every year it got worse and worse now i think you have to get drawn just to hunt deer.also weedwalker its hardley a hunt reserve we have low fences and the deer can come and go as they please, also i think that if an animal is shot behind a high fence then it cannot go into the record book.
 
weedwalker, I'm sorry to say that's what it's all coming down to.
Money is more powerful then right or wrong, so are some egos.
Some people who have the money don't care what it cost to kill a 200 point buck or a 400 point elk.
They don't care if it's on steroids and tied to a fence, all they want is a head on a wall, pictures and fame.
We as real hunters know what they are, in the long run it's going to ruin the SPORT of hunting as we know it.

I'm not talking about guys that have to lease land to hunt on, they dont have a choice. I'm talking high fence hunting.
 
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If i mispoke i want to apologize. I dont and wont hunt on high fenced land. And yes, if you shoot an animal on one, it doesnt go in the books. A guy shot a 230 net typical on the king ranch this year, beats the record by a ton, but it is high fenced. Yes, its the largest ranch in the state, but still doesnt qualify.

tx yote- i have had the opportunity to get on the same type of lease, in Childress, but like you say it is only a one buck county, that is what keeps the price down.

And I think all of us on here can agree that the canned hunts that are referred to above are what gives the anti-hunting crowd fuel for their fire.
 


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