How Much do you guys pay for your hunting lease?
08-16-2011, 06:51 AM
#21
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 590
South Dakota is a little bit different story than most areas on the east coast. It is a simple matter of population density. If land owners around here let anyone hunt for free, they would be overrun and there would be virtually no game on their land after a few years.
Also, around here most people don't even know someone who owns more than 1 acre. I have to drive for 40 minutes just to get out of the suburbs.
Also, around here most people don't even know someone who owns more than 1 acre. I have to drive for 40 minutes just to get out of the suburbs.
08-16-2011, 08:37 AM
#22
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 741
I think it's different with every situation brother. It sounds like you're in a good situation. 100 acres in your backyard and another 700 5 minutes down the road? Sounds good to me. I would do it in a second, especially in MD or NOVA. I think it would be one of those things that you wouldn't know what you had (or how good you had it) until it was gone. Living extremely close to hunting property has some huge advantages that most don't realize because they don't live close. I think you're sitting pretty in comparison to most in your area. In short, that price is good for your situation.
VA
VA
I was just wondering how much everyone pays for their hunting lease and for how many acres? I live in Maryland for 6 years and NJ for 25 so I'm used to northeast hunting where its either "pay to play" or hunt shoulder to shoulder on public land. In NJ I definitely didn't have the money so made the best of public lands and actually did ok. I always dreamed of having my own land. When I moved to Maryland, I rented a farm house where the surrounds 800 acres of crop fields/woods were leased by a hunting club. They knew I loved hunting and would stop by a few weeks before the season and ask what I've been seeing in the area etc and I had no problem teliing and helping out. Things finally started getting good for me the same year they were looking for a new member. I scraped up the money and joined and loved it. I joined the following year as well at a slight increase for everyone. I just heard now that our rate will be $5750 (after insurance) for the club. We're trying to keep member numbers low of course but its getting pricey now. Of course I'm paying with not really thinking about it so im part of the problem but it seems to be getting quite high. Public land hunting is awful in maryland unless i want to travel over an hour which has a lot to do with it.
So my question is, how does that price compare with everyone else?
So my question is, how does that price compare with everyone else?
08-17-2011, 09:35 AM
#24
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 252
I think it's different with every situation brother. It sounds like you're in a good situation. 100 acres in your backyard and another 700 5 minutes down the road? Sounds good to me. I would do it in a second, especially in MD or NOVA. I think it would be one of those things that you wouldn't know what you had (or how good you had it) until it was gone. Living extremely close to hunting property has some huge advantages that most don't realize because they don't live close. I think you're sitting pretty in comparison to most in your area. In short, that price is good for your situation.
VA
VA
08-17-2011, 02:35 PM
#25
Super Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Choctaw, Oklahoma
Posts: 1,350
I leased for the first time 2 years ago and got burned so I kinda have a bad taste in my mouth still. The same year I leased I got tired of the owner runnin cows around the property in 4 wheeler while I was on stand so I tried piece of public land that I hadn't been to and have taken 6 deer off of it. 2 decent bucks plus seen 2 that would be pushin b and c. The wife took her first buck also and my buddy has taken 3 more.
Don't get me wrong I do see the hunters come rifle season but I have still seen plenty of deer and have found spots that don't get to busy with the orange. Still if the right situation came about I would lease again especially if it was in my back yard like yours is.
Oh by the way when I leased it was $1200 total for 160 acres with no more than 4 hunters.
Don't get me wrong I do see the hunters come rifle season but I have still seen plenty of deer and have found spots that don't get to busy with the orange. Still if the right situation came about I would lease again especially if it was in my back yard like yours is.
Oh by the way when I leased it was $1200 total for 160 acres with no more than 4 hunters.
08-17-2011, 03:03 PM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Audubon & Red Rock, Penna.
Posts: 4,472
I don't even know if they have hunting leases in Pennsylvania. I've never heard of anyone leasing here.
We belong to an association that owns 3500 acres. There are 66 families in the association. Only about 12 of them hunt so I rarely see other hunters. Dues are $950 a year. But that's not a hunting lease, more like a home-oweners association fee.
Our land borders 54,000 acres of SGL with the nearest access several miles away. On another side, 20,000 acres of state park border with a lot of it being no hunting. There are also a few, several thousand acre private tracts in the area. So, basically, it's very few hunters sharing about about 100,000 acres.
We belong to an association that owns 3500 acres. There are 66 families in the association. Only about 12 of them hunt so I rarely see other hunters. Dues are $950 a year. But that's not a hunting lease, more like a home-oweners association fee.
Our land borders 54,000 acres of SGL with the nearest access several miles away. On another side, 20,000 acres of state park border with a lot of it being no hunting. There are also a few, several thousand acre private tracts in the area. So, basically, it's very few hunters sharing about about 100,000 acres.
08-18-2011, 04:33 AM
#28
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: MN
Posts: 72
I hope you guys are only paying to use the land during the season but the way I look at it what you are paying is way out of line. If you have to pay for the whole year you would be better off pooling your resources and buying your own land. At that price my guns would only be used to shoot paper.
08-18-2011, 07:16 AM
#29
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,926
Nothing charges a lessee better, ...
than one of the "biggest and best antlered buck" roaming a leased section of land. Even if they have to share it with hunters, who might shoot the buck first.
If it wasn't a recession, they might have had mortgages for all those hunters.
If it wasn't a recession, they might have had mortgages for all those hunters.