re: How did you get into your deer lease?

i bought 60 acres, was able to bid on a 2 tracts that were school board land.

Also made friends with my guy across the street, he introduced me to other guys that I became friends with.

Long story short treated people well, they treated me well. when they gave up a 25 yr 800 acre lease they offered it to me. they were tired of the head aches and i was willing to put the money up.


not something easy to find.



now my kids have the opportunity to hunt on 1500 acres that i am control of. I have a few close friends that help with the cost. But not a hunting club by any means
i love it

One lease I’m on I grew up hunting. The way we do it is you pay what the total is for the acreage where you hunt. The area I’m in comes in at just under 500 acres so that’s what I pay for. My brother in law and uncle each pay a third.

I also hunt 40 acres where I live that joins my 13 acres that I own that don’t cost me anything but keeping an eye on the land. Last week I picked up 200 more acres that joins the 40. I contacted the landowner directly and inquired about leasing and they agreed to lease it.

I’ve had good luck using OnX and BaseMap to find property and the landowner information and directly contacting. You’d be surprised how much land you assume is leased but isn’t.

Keep an eye on this, they have tracts come open from time to time

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I originally hunted along the Ms river just south of Vidalia. We had 1000 acres and mostly 4 ppl hunting hard. It flooded almost annually but there was nothing like hunting that place. The deer were always so visible. I was offered to get in a lease this past year in woodville but it was just so different than anything I have ever hunted. I turned it down. MS river bottom hunting can you a bit spoiled.

We live in and hunt Amite county . I’m in the NW corner near 98.

I pass there every day . I live about 12 miles up the Meadville Rd not far from
guapos.

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I bought a 100 acre piece of property this year.

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I thought we were talking about leases.

We have 80 acres that only my son and I hunt that's ben in our family since before the war of northern aggression.

We go all the time . It stays packed on weekends. They added a bar a couple months ago