This is what it has come down too.
02-21-2005, 05:45 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southeast Central Illinois USA
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This is what it has come down too.
On another site a guy is advertising for bids on leasing 420 acres in Illinois. It went for $10,000 last year and now he expects to get more. If this is the future of hunting.........guess I am out.
02-21-2005, 05:59 PM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fulton county IL USA
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RE: This is what it has come down too.
As you know, I know of the post on the site that you speak but it is a very realistic price for the folks that have more than enough $$$ on their hands!! [&:] All kidding aside, All-Star MLB player Jim Thome has been doing this with hundreds and hundreds of acres all around here in Fulton county. One of my buddies lost out on a farm he has hunted for 15 years this past season because Thome paid the farmer $10,000 just to keep them OUT of the 100 acre woodlot! [:@]
It truly is becoming a rich mans game!
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It truly is becoming a rich mans game!
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02-21-2005, 07:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Adirondacks, New York
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RE: This is what it has come down too.
ORIGINAL: IL-Cornfed
As you know, I know of the post on the site that you speak but it is a very realistic price for the folks that have more than enough $$$ on their hands!! [&:] All kidding aside, All-Star MLB player Jim Thome has been doing this with hundreds and hundreds of acres all around here in Fulton county. One of my buddies lost out on a farm he has hunted for 15 years this past season because Thome paid the farmer $10,000 just to keep them OUT of the 100 acre woodlot! [:@]
It truly is becoming a rich mans game![:'(]
As you know, I know of the post on the site that you speak but it is a very realistic price for the folks that have more than enough $$$ on their hands!! [&:] All kidding aside, All-Star MLB player Jim Thome has been doing this with hundreds and hundreds of acres all around here in Fulton county. One of my buddies lost out on a farm he has hunted for 15 years this past season because Thome paid the farmer $10,000 just to keep them OUT of the 100 acre woodlot! [:@]
It truly is becoming a rich mans game!
[:'(]
And to think that I have had Jim Thome on my fantasy Baseball team. I won't be drafting him ever again
02-21-2005, 08:59 PM
#5
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wall SD USA & Jamestown ND
Posts: 11,474
RE: This is what it has come down too.
There are getting to be a lot more Have people than Have not people. The gap between rich and poor is growing fast. Hunting will soon be a rich man or land owner deal only. Property taxes are way to high as well. Landowners are trying to pay the taxes. The property tax on most farms and ranches are more now EVERY YEAR than what the land cost to buy in the first place.
02-21-2005, 09:44 PM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: a van down by the river
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RE: This is what it has come down too.
$10K for 420 acres?[:-] And I thought we were getting a lot for our hunting leases.[&:] May have to go up next season.
It has reached the point where it takes the hunting or the cattle to pay the taxes, and the other is left to pay the rest of the bills. Not so long ago, we didn't need the extra money and I could hunt all I wanted. I could hunt anywhere I wanted any time I wanted. Now, I'm even playing second fiddle when it comes to hunting. The ranch needs the $$$. With all the "Have people" buying small acreage around here for large dinero, things don't look like they'll get a lot better, either.
Landowners are trying to pay the taxes.
Bobby
02-22-2005, 06:58 AM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Darien, IL
Posts: 6,744
RE: This is what it has come down too.
James, I think you got that backward. You mean there's starting to be more have nots than haves, right? $10,000 for 420 acres - I'll take it.
Uncle Matt (in IL w/$10K)
Uncle Matt (in IL w/$10K)