RE: hunting lease
This subject is fascinating to me! It must depend on where in the country you live. Where do you live?
I live in SW Michigan and hunt my parents 6 acres. I have access to hunt 350 acres around my 6 acres, and could probably get access to more if I asked. But the 6 acres is all I need. If I want to hunt the larger areas I only have to promise to take at least 1 doe.
A lease implies the land owner is doing something for you in exchange for money, but many farmers in SW Michigan need people to remove deer that have been eating their crops, Corn feed deer! Yum![/i] So they consider the removal of a doe as payment for the hunting rights.
I’m guessing in some parts of the country 350 acres isn’t enough because of game concentration? And we in Michigan should count our blessings!