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re: Why is it so hard to find a good hunting lease?

Posted on 10/2/13 at 5:57 pm to
Posted by DrTyger
Covington
Member since Oct 2009
22325 posts
Posted on 10/2/13 at 5:57 pm to
I've been having the same problem.

Land is becoming scarce. The good stuff is already taken and the places with any openings cost an arm and a leg.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
66763 posts
Posted on 10/2/13 at 7:25 pm to
Landowners figured out that the big money is in small leases.
Posted by FelicianaTigerfan
Comanche County
Member since Aug 2009
26059 posts
Posted on 10/2/13 at 7:44 pm to
I know folks charging a ton of money for land. Way more than what it's worth. Farm land that was once great and just hunted and shared by locals is 45 an acre and no more crops and its all planted in pines.

I predict the bottom dropping out soon ( wishful thinking probably).
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
66763 posts
Posted on 10/2/13 at 7:46 pm to
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I predict the bottom dropping out soon


I don't think it will. I don't see the popularity of hunting going down anytime soon. People are spending more and more money every year for less and less land.

Once the landowners figured out how much money they could make off of dirt they weren't using for anything otherwise, that was it.
Posted by offshoretrash
Farmerville, La
Member since Aug 2008
10169 posts
Posted on 10/2/13 at 7:49 pm to
Even the timber companies are getting in on the price hikes. They charge us $8 and acre for "premium" land and say they are gonna keep going up. I'm about to the point where I would rather just book a couple hunts a year out of state. I will hang in for my kids but when they are grown I may just do the paid hunts.
Posted by FelicianaTigerfan
Comanche County
Member since Aug 2009
26059 posts
Posted on 10/2/13 at 7:50 pm to
Well soon may be 10 to 20 years but when all these big spenders realize that just because they pay big money in the whole shooting match and still aren't knocking big ones down like Lee and Tiffany they will find a new fad.

What's funny is the price of land here is the price of buying land here I decreasing but the price to lease is increasing.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
66763 posts
Posted on 10/2/13 at 7:51 pm to
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they are gonna keep going up


It's going to keep happening for a while until you start seeing land go unleased.

There's SOMEBODY out there willing to pay it and everybody knows it.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
66763 posts
Posted on 10/2/13 at 7:53 pm to
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that just because they pay big money in the whole shooting match and still aren't knocking big ones down like Lee and Tiffany they will find a new fad.


They find a new lease, and the next big spender scoops up the one they just left with grand imaginations of shooting huge arse deer, just like the other 10 groups before them who left disappointed.

That's why you don't see many big old clubs anymore. It's all people bouncing around from one section lease to another section, and spending a whole bunch of money doing it.
This post was edited on 10/2/13 at 7:54 pm
Posted by BayouBrawl
Junk Yard
Member since Aug 2012
1151 posts
Posted on 10/2/13 at 8:33 pm to
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eyepooted


That's the problem, I'm planning to head home mid November and stay.
Posted by Huntinguy
Member since Mar 2011
1752 posts
Posted on 10/3/13 at 8:20 am to
I lease hunting land.

Huntinguy123@live.com
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45792 posts
Posted on 10/3/13 at 8:24 am to
Take this site for example, posters post on here pictures of big deer plentiful ducks, etc on a lease. It is possible, in many cases trough the poster's history to find out where it is located. With that information they can head to the court house find the land owner and make and offer...

If you don't own the property you hunt be very careful about what you post...
Posted by FelicianaTigerfan
Comanche County
Member since Aug 2009
26059 posts
Posted on 10/3/13 at 8:44 am to
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head to the court house find the land owner and make and offer
This is very true. Especially with so many companies now leasing land as a business investment to bring clients. Hard for the average person to compete with that
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