RE: Size needed for "Safe Haven"
I won't be able to spend 2 days walking the land. If I don't pull the trigger on it by the weekend it will probably be gone. With 3 creeks on it and some actual hills it is a rare piece of property in that area.
I'm going to go look at it tomorrow afternoon and if it looks anything like the pictures I will probably buy it. I talked to the neighbor to the east and he seems like a pretty nice guy. He is actually leasing the property I'm looking at buying right now for grazing. He is planting winter wheat on the cultivated areas for winter grazing. He has about 50 cows that he is running on his 1/2 section and the 1/4 section that I would be buying. He leases out his land to hunters so I will see if I can swap out him being able to graze some cows on the land andgive meexclusive hunting on his land.
He said that he has never actually seen deer on the land I'm looking at buying but he has seen them on his property to the east so he assumes there would be deer on the property. He said the property to the north is a hunting ranch and at least part of it is high fenced. He didn't know if there is a high fence running on the north side of the property I'm looking at so there would for sure be a chance of deer moving out of my safe haven there into the hunting ranch but if they put much pressure on them I would think they would prefer to move south unless they really had something to attract them in.
The way the land lays I don't think I could make a safe haven in the middle of the property. I would think the thickest area would naturally be the preferred area for bedding, etc. I doubt I can do a lot of game management with such a small piece of land anyway but it might be fun to try. I will try to get the name of the neighbor to the north that hunts and see if I can talk to them before I put an offer on it.
Thanks for the replies.