How do you thank your landowners??
 

For those of you who hunt on other peoples land and aren't paying money to do so, how do you thank the owners for letting you hunt on their land?

I usually deliver a variety of homemade baked goods, fruits, and maybe some gift certificates. It seems to show them I appreciate it, however I still worry every year that at some point my homemade or boughten gestures won't compare to someone offering $1000 to hunt. how do you thank them?

RE: How do you thank your landowners??
 

You could always offer some of your harvest, I saw it on the hunters education video:D

RE: How do you thank your landowners??
 

for one i always try to talk to the owner as often as i can, just to check up see how their doing. i also do offer some of my harvest, and sometimes even offer to cook it for them if they dont know how to cook it. another thing that i have found to be very helpful, especially if they own a farm is helping them out once and a while with the harvest. there is a lot of work that needs to be done during the harvest season and throughout the whole year, and i figure if you've got enough time to hunt, then you have enough time to help them an hour here and there. trust me, just that little bit of work you do for them goes a long way.

RE: How do you thank your landowners??
 

Mow his lawn,gave the one a old train radio. Fixed a mailbox for him.Stuff like that

RE: How do you thank your landowners??
 

I give half my deer to the old timer i always take him his favorite pouch of chewing tobacco and leave it in his mail box for him and every christmas i give him a gift certificate for a steak dinner for him and his wife that seems to do the trick for me.

RE: How do you thank your landowners??
 

Bring his kids to my house to play with mine (VERY appreciated for those of us with kids!!) and give him some free time, Honey Baked ham for Thanksgiving this year, gonna help him split a little wood tomorrow, etc.

Of these, an offer to baby-sit kids and give him and the little lady a night out by themselves is great in my opinion. Nobody with little ones gets enough chances to go out for a nice dinner and is it GREATLY appreciated.......I know from experience. :)

RE: How do you thank your landowners??
 

I'll either have them over for backstraps or chilli. I also give them some summer sausage and snack sticks. Every year I offer to harvest and process a deer for him, but he never accepts. They are at a point in there lives where they travel alot and the venison would just go to waste.

RE: How do you thank your landowners??
 

i give some deer meat and help out around the farm, luckily this is a really nice guy and doesnt ask for anything, but i always like to have conversations with him to see how his family and everything is going. and i always ask him what kind of deer he has been seeing, what deer have been killed, all that....there is a big buck with a droptine on his lef antler that he has been seeing. hopefully this weekend my buddy can get it with the shotgun.

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For those of you who said help around the farm.... GOD BLESS YOU!

my grandpa used to own a farm way up north, he allowed a bunch of guys teh opertunity to hunt his farm, well ONLY one actually offered to help around the farm, in fact the guy offered to help harvest crops, but my grandpa was doing it the weekend of the rut.. i remember helping that weekend and the guy, showed up. helped us out took about 5 hours less than my grandpa estimated, so he took the guy up to a secluded spot on the farm and showed him where to hunt.. told the guy there was a big buck walking around there.... the guy ended up taking a 16 pointer that grossed in the 170's.
that guy helped my grandfather with harvests every year untill my grandpa died three years ago.

and untill my grandfathers dieing day he woudl ask me if i remember that gentleman who helped us with the harvest, and he actually appreciated that more than anything he recieved from the others he allowed to hunt his property.

i do the same for the farmer who lets me hunt his property... even the peak rut. although he hasnt shown me where the big ones are at, i have helped him fix the cows fences, bail hay with him, and helped with the harvest.. i got alot of odd small jobs that i couldnt mess anything up but we have a good time laugh, and talk alot about nothing to do with hunting.

you guys rock!

RE: How do you thank your landowners??
 

I currently hunt on about 1400 acres in the Tx Hill Country that belongs to my neighbor across the street. I was actually offered my first hunt on this property because of some work I did for my neighbor.

We babysit for him and his wife, help each other around the houses, I have welded up carrying racks for the ranch Jeep and golf carts, misc. welding repairs at the ranch, minor mechanical repairs on the ranch truck and neighbor's personal truck, built 2 portable game cranks to mount into receiver hitches on the golf carts & Jeep, built 2 new gates for the ranch, stuff like that.

I'm pretty good at welding and auto repair which is expertise that my neighbor does not have. Although I have been teaching him how to weld a bit. And now that they just had their 2nd son a few weeks ago, we're already making plans for more babysitting, so they can get out of the house for a bit.