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Old 09-18-2010, 03:42 PM
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Mr. Deer Hunter
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I would invest in a spot light and ride around and shine for deer if it was legal and see if there was any deer in the neighborhood.

Like I said before - just because a person has land to hunt on, doesn't mean that there is deer there or that there is deer there all the time.

With travel lanes - to and from where they like to eat and bedding zones and places where they feed and drink water, there is no telling when or if you will ever see a deer there.

A local businessman owned a logging company. His company did work for a coal company that was going out of business after 120 years of being in business. They offered him all the land that he wanted for free. All he had to do was cut all the timber off the land and give them the timber money. They even paid him to cut the timber.

He had this 1000 acre plot of land that was really good for hunting, before he cut the timber. It was surrounded by producing farms and none of the farmers had their lands posted. So basically the deer were getting a free meal. They started a hunting club, $500 to join and $100 a year dues. They signed up 500 people to hunt on this land. The first year, they got one or two nice deer. After that no one was seeing any deer anymore. Most of the farmers could not survive the recession and had to get rid of their cows. Other farmers got too old to farm and their children only wanted the money out of the land and didn't want to work on a farm for little or no pay. After 6 years, the hunting club didn't even have the money to pay the timberman for the lease. The land is still leased, and the hunting club still runs the lease. But the timberman has to pay the property taxes out of his own pocket - because there is no money coming in from the hunting lease to even pay the insurance or the taxes.

Moral of the story, just because there is a big tract of land for lease, doesn't mean that there is deer there. Even if there is deer there, if there is no one around on the property to move the deer around, the deer might lay down 100 yards from your hunting stand and you might never see them in 10 years.

Sometimes the best place to hunt is a place that is open to the public. Some people can hunt while other people walks around and moves the deer around for you. The more hunters you have the more deer you will see.
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