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Hunting on Small Acerage Land
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:32 pm
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:32 pm
I’m looking at buying some land. I plan to eventually build on the property but it’ll be years down the road. What are your opinions on hunting this size tract of land? What should I look for when deciding on land? How would it be best to manage it? Just general help in this area would help.
ETA around 20 acres
ETA around 20 acres
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 7:37 pm
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Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:35 pm to GAFF
How much land??
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:35 pm to GAFF
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What are your opinions on hunting this size tract of land?
What size? Local posters will want to know.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:36 pm to LSUintheNW
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Local poachers will want to know.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:37 pm to rsbd
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How much land??
My bad haha. Around 20 acres.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:41 pm to GAFF
What kind of coverage (trees)? Have a creek??
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:43 pm to rsbd
That’s what I’m asking. I haven’t bought land yet. Unless a deal comes along around 20 acres is all my budget will allow. So I’m trying to maximize the land as much as possible
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:47 pm to GAFF
That’s what my wife and I plan to do. We want to get up to 40-50 acres.
Use landwatch.com for the state and region that you want to find land tracts or National Land Realty or Mossy Oak Properties.
Use landwatch.com for the state and region that you want to find land tracts or National Land Realty or Mossy Oak Properties.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:50 pm to GAFF
Location location location!
I got a buddy who owns 40 acres in between 2 AG fields and it’s amazing. He has a 5 acre food plot in the middle, the rest is all bedding area. He stays out of it and only hunts the food plot with the perfect wind. Kills studs every year. Runs trail cam on the food plot and has killed his biggest buck on camera last 4 years
I got a buddy who owns 40 acres in between 2 AG fields and it’s amazing. He has a 5 acre food plot in the middle, the rest is all bedding area. He stays out of it and only hunts the food plot with the perfect wind. Kills studs every year. Runs trail cam on the food plot and has killed his biggest buck on camera last 4 years
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:51 pm to GAFF
Don’t just look at what the land you are looking at is made of. Look at the surrounding land. If possible fine a small block surrounded by large land owners. That have the potential to hold good deer..
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:55 pm to rsbd
On an acreage that small, it’s only as good as your neighbors are. Find larger acreage owners to butt up against. Or some non hunting city slickers
Posted on 1/3/19 at 7:57 pm to rsbd
Agree on that. Be the only hardwood tract that is surrounded by clear cut land.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:04 pm to biggsc
The last place we leased was only 170 acres (just me and my FIL) 110 with a paved road dividing it from the other 60. Surrounded on two sides by 1200acres, a 600acre cutover on one side, and a guy with 80acres who only turkey hunted. Then all of that surrounding land was bordered by a grass farm and a 8000acre “farm”.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:05 pm to biggsc
So completely wooded would be best?
As far as management goes what would be best? Would planting a food plot on a tract that small be good or bad?
As far as management goes what would be best? Would planting a food plot on a tract that small be good or bad?
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:09 pm to GAFF
Small plot in a corner. If you bow hunt that would be best
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:15 pm to GAFF
Yes it would be. Deer love acorns. I’d plant a food plot at one corner of the land tract.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:15 pm to GAFF
Timber is your biggest concern on a tract that size...along with surrounding properties and thier timber/deer cover situation
Buying 20 acres in the middle of a 1000 acre farm isn't going to hold deer
Honestly your land could be thinned out or cutover as long as surrounding properties are thick enough to hold deer
Eta- I mean if his land is cut as well.
Buying 20 acres in the middle of a 1000 acre farm isn't going to hold deer
Honestly your land could be thinned out or cutover as long as surrounding properties are thick enough to hold deer
Eta- I mean if his land is cut as well.
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:22 pm to SportTiger1
The good thing about my area is most of the land here is wooded with a mixture of pines and hardwoods. Would a plot in the corner still be ideal if there’s not a lot of farm land near by?
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:24 pm to GAFF
Not if the corner butts up to a pasture. By farms we mean hunting farms
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:26 pm to GAFF
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hardwoods
If you can find it
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