re: First deer tag filled in 2 years!

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How in the world did you find land in that part of the state? I'm jealous, I've been looking in that area for a good while. Not very much comes up for sale around there and if it does it is usually very large acreage with lots of zeros in the price. We are actually going to look at a place on the water in Riviera this weekend, I think we are done with Rockport. Great deer btw.

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This ranch was bought by my grandfather 33 years ago. We hunted it a few times in my teens and my dad doesn’t give two shits about deer. He’s a cowboy and likes to rope and I liked to chase ducks so my grandfather leased it for $3000 a year for a long time.

We always had 1 blind on the place for the grandsons to hunt(me and my brother). Fast forward to around 2009 and I drove from North Carolina to hunt because a buddy was begging me to bring him. I hadn’t killed a deer off this place since 1993 and killed a little buck and have been hooked since.

My grandmother is still alive and she divided the place to the 4 siblings 7 to 8 years ago. Between myself, dad, and brother we have managed to get 75% of the ranch. My uncle owns 25% in between our piece. We let him run cattle on our part and we hunt the whole place.

We got the last piece last year and it was in terrible shape so we had a good amount of dozer work done and set up blinds around a year ago.

Because it’s been all family we haven’t had to finance anything and do lump sum payments yearly to pay off the land with no interest.

Edit: My wife isn’t a big fan of this