Hunting land needed

[jlane]

Im Looking for some Hunting Land for Deer season this year and future hunts. I usually hunt public land in So IL and now some friends and I would like some private. Anyone know of any for lease?

[lacywbosu]

I gotta tell you, when you mentioned lease, it sorta turned me off to offering any assistance. I had recently lost a farm that I hunted for forty years. The new owner signed my permission slip and I hunted there for two years then some guys I know sewed it up for themselves by leasing it. The owner really does not need the money, but money talks big time in about everything. I have hunted many states and provinces and have paid guide fees and trespass fees. I realize that many are in it for the money for what ever reason. Yes some landowners really need the income and with charging money, some still get to hunt on their property. Some of the best marshes I know are leased as well as some river banks for steelhead runs. Just no end to it. I feel that people that lease are doing it for selfish reasons. My own reserve and keep everyone else out. Not saying that this is wrong because everyone has to look out for themselves. Maybe if I had alot of money, I would be leasing prime property too and keeping you out.

[Wade B AKA: Ruger2506]

I gotta tell you, when you mentioned lease, it sorta turned me off to offering any assistance. I had recently lost a farm that I hunted for forty years. The new owner signed my permission slip and I hunted there for two years then some guys I know sewed it up for themselves by leasing it. The owner really does not need the money, but money talks big time in about everything. I have hunted many states and provinces and have paid guide fees and trespass fees. I realize that many are in it for the money for what ever reason. Yes some landowners really need the income and with charging money, some still get to hunt on their property. Some of the best marshes I know are leased as well as some river banks for steelhead runs. Just no end to it. I feel that people that lease are doing it for selfish reasons. My own reserve and keep everyone else out. Not saying that this is wrong because everyone has to look out for themselves. Maybe if I had alot of money, I would be leasing prime property too and keeping you out.

Well of course they/we are doing it for selfish reasons. No different than buying land. The farm I bought in Iowa was specifically so I had a place to hunt and I have a legal right to keep you out.

[MrStarnes1]

i pay a farmer near me $200 a year to let me hunt his land.
he doesnt have the biggest deer on the planet, but its a place near my house, with a good amount of deer. i would GLADLY pay him more if he wanted because i know i am the only person out there hunting and i save a ton of time and money by hunting near my house
its not a bad thing to pay to lease ground... its kind of like owning a lund, you either want one or you own one hahah

[t kaniper]

Could hook you up in kansas but long way from illini country

[lacywbosu]

Well of course they/we are doing it for selfish reasons. No different than buying land. The farm I bought in Iowa was specifically so I had a place to hunt and I have a legal right to keep you out.

Like I said, I don't feel that it is wrong to lease land or buy it and use it for your own purposes. I am just envious and a little jealous of the boys that can tie up prime property for themselves. If I had the ability and money, I would do so also and only permit friends and family on it. There is nothing I can do about losing my hunting spots to new owners, leasers, housing developements, shopping malls, etc. It just makes me sad.

[sault eyes]

I too am looking for land to lease. I like Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio. I don't want to kill a tonne of deer. I only want to shoot some big horns. I would be willing to pay a good fee!

Jason Doyon

[Nick Kanauz]

I hunt deer for the meat. I have a deal with a local farmer. We bartered the use of one of his hundred acre wooded parcels for our 14 acres of Timothy/Alfalfa. It's a good deal for both of us. He gets enough feed for the winter for his feeder cattle, and I get to hunt. He gets somone to watch property a couple miles from his main farm too. I'm not that interested in big racks, besides, here in Michigan farm country, big deer don't always make it to the annual deer seasons with all the block permits the dnr gives out. I'd rather take a nice doe anyway...we have WAY too many of them!

[BroadwayBill]

I lease land every year I just don't get to hunt it. Every time I pay taxes and a landowner gets a check for grain subsidy, livestock subsidy, disaster subsidy, and the list goes on and on. Then they take additional money to put land into CRP and set a side acres that don't even have a grass hopper on them let alone a deer or bird. Oh and don't even get me started about the millions of acres of schools, public land and BLM land that we don't even have access to.

If you want to charge to have somebody hunt your ground then you should give up the goverment/(public) payment. I would love to have just once the opportunity to legally drive to a piece of public ground in western South Dakota that borders a private ranch and be greeted as a human being instead being treated like a piece of **** even though I had done nothing wrong.

Where did the time go that the first thing that we did when we met each other was to be civilized.:rant:

Bill