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A few friends and I lease land...I only pay $250 personally...I think it's a great deal.

My grandparents let anyone and everyone hunt their woods (a GREAT place to hunt, I might add)...as long as you're willing to WALK ½ mile thru a field (this year it was corn and beans)..and not drive on it except for when the ground is frozen. A few guys with climbers don't mind..others never return.

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Yes, I get disgusted with the inconsiderate hunters out there, in many different aspects, and there are quite a few of them! Our landowner wants us to shoot our limits out of there, saves him money on his crops. It's a benefit to most farmers. I was thrilled with the new liability form in the regs this year, I haven't tried it out on any landowners, but I hope it is successful in increasing areas to hunt!

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Hey Hunting Girl, were you close to that big Twister in
Indiana?

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Tell me about it, its really hard to do. I got one spot i used to hunt alone, but now there is another guy who hunts it during shotgun. There are deer in there but the chances of killing a big buck are about slim to none. I'd like to hunt elsewhere but know how tough it will be to gain permission to some of the better land. I got permission to a place last week but im only allowed to hunt it if the other hunter isnt there, so thats not much good. I asked some other property owner yesterday about hunting and he told me he already had 2 hunters so it wasnt a good idea. Im having an uncle try and hook me up with a few of his old honey holes where he doesnt even really hunt anymore. If that fails, im going door to door later today. If i get turned down 20 times but allowed 1, then its worth it. I would lease land in a heartbeat, only problem is the leases are never advertised around here and i dont want to go through a middleman like BaseCamp.

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rebel hog.. i was i live in newburgh indiana where it went through it missed my house by a mile the way the bird flys... it ripped through some of my good friends neighborhood a lot of damage done to their houses.. im helping them clean it up and i hope we get it all done before this weekend

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Jb, glad to hear your home and family were spared and sorry for those who were not!:(

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bigbuck. A friend and I went door to door in Steuben looking for land. Found a few spots..which SUPRISED the heck out of me...but all had a few other guys hunting it. The ratio of people saying "no" opposed to "yes" had to be around 20:1 (sad but true).


Oh, BTW......GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COLTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I know what you mean Pat. Luckily it looks as though my uncle has got me permission to hunt a couple places where he does. I dont get it, my uncle isnt the cleanest cut of people, and can barely hold a job, but landowners practically kiss his a## and he gets permission where nobody else can. I dont know how he does it. He told me the other night one of the property owners called him wanted to know where he was becuase all the deer had killed his crops. He shot a 17 point in there a few years ago.

And yes...GOOOOOOOOOOO COLTS, cant wait for the game, need to put one to NE. We win tonight and i think we are superbowl bound. There is no bigger test in the NFL to the Colts then NE, they have an edge on us mentally.I think you will probably see one of NE best games tonight too. If were able to go in there and beat them, that will convince me we have came a very long way.

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COLTS WIN!!!!!!!!! Complete domination of the defending champs. I need to kill a monster buck this weekend to top this off.

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VERY nice game!

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I wan't close to the tornado, had high winds and mondo thunderboomers, but no tornadoes... My heart goes out to all of those who have endured horrendous natural disasters this year, mother nature must be having a bad PMS year.... [:'(]

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I have a friend in Newburgh. Did not realize that that storm went thru there. going to have to Email them and find out if they are okay.

As for leases the only place and way that I heard about to get them is thru base camp. Maybe because of the cost thru them and what I see when I have looked at some of the leases has a lot to do with how I feel about them. They seem to be asking a lot for what appears to me to be nothing more than tree/fence row and for a decent wooded area. Wow. I can not afford 3-8 k per year to hunt. Heck if I could afford that I would look for 20 - 50 acres to buy and have for my own.

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indiana.. i live in newburg.. do u know where ur friend lives like the street i would be able to tell you if they were ok.

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Indianahick, this is why i do not like BaseCamp. They are a rip off. They are a middleman who raise prices in order to make a profit. I also think you have to pay like 45 bucks just in order to be a member with them and have the right to lease thier land. I have looked at some of their leases and about the minimal price i came across was 1 grand and that was for roughly 40 acres. I seen some leases in Miami county that were 300-400 acres and almost all of it looked like crop fields. No thanks. There are farmers who lease their land directly to hunters, no middleman and no lawyers involved. Only problem with that is they usually dont advertise it and so you really have no way of knowing who has leases and who doesnt. The farmers usually are much more reasonable on their prices as well.

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Like I have said for a long time. It will get to the point that if you dont own land you will not be able to hunt. It may not be in our life time, but it will eventually come to that.

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Got an email from Jack today. They got their power back around 4:30 P.M. Monday. Missed his sister in law by two blocks, his mother in law by 1/2 mile. They did not even get any limbs down at their house. Darn lucky.

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I am going to be buying a new house pretty soon and i thought about just going in debt up to my eyeballs and buying a farm, for one, to hunt on and two, when they build sub-divisions on the rest of the farms and run out of places to grow food, the government will pay big money for my hoosier corn, ha ha stick it to the man.

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I know we have another thread but....I'm pumped about Saturday!