This is as good a place to start as any.Anyone have suggestions on where to find hunting leases? I know we probably should've got started months ago but my father-in-law and I are looking for a lease for this upcoming deer season. Looking to stay around Brown/Morgan/Johnson/Putnam/Monroe/Bartholomew/Owen counties. Thanks!
This is as good a place to start as any.
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I'm surprised they had that many.I checked them out and I think they had one property in Putnam and that was it.
I checked them out and I think they had one property in Putnam and that was it.
They are typically scooped up pretty quick. I have a buddy who works there. If it were me I would give them a call, tell them what your looking for, and mabye you could get on some kind of list. 1 in the county your after is pretty good, they only have 2 in the state right now.
This is good advice to an extent , but it also depends on how it's taxed . I have several hundred acres set aside in classified forest and taxes are under $200 for the year . No way I'm letting someone loose for $100 , let alone 4 hunters . I would suggest finding out roughly what some of the leasing companies get per acre and be in that ballpark .I have been a big advocate of hunting the thousands of acres I am part owner in. I hit the out of the way spots at the optimum time, and usually on weekdays. Never to the same spot more than 2 or 3 times a season.
I have also lost private spots that went to a lease. I've never much liked the idea of a brokered lease, because it puts money in the hands of the middle man instead of the landowner. I'm sure brokers do their part as a real estate agent/broker does their part to sell a property, but the money goes to the wrong person.
The "permission" properties I lost, I had it coming to me. Why should I benefit from the hard work of the landowner. I've had a change of mind on how I approach private land owners to use their spot for my benefit. It is easy to find the cost of the tax bill on the land I want to hunt. Usually, I want to use the land year round also. I like to approach the landowner with enough money to cover someplace in the neighborhood of 1/2 to full tax liability on the acreage. I like to have permission for about 4 hunters so I can split the cost. I also don't want to do this on more than one or two spots. My pockets are shallow, and my arms don't reach the pockets very well.
You can do homework on OnX and Google Earth, as well as county harvest records, and approach the landowner/landowners yourself. Good or bad, we all have lost permission properties to leases. Maybe even consider paying your permission property owners before someone else does.
You might have to drive a bit, but there are places that take deer to process for food pantries. Unfortunately none in Howard county that I can find. But to keep the farmer happy I'd take a couple and am willing to drive, and I'm sure I can find a few others that will take 1 or 2. Heck I'd be willing to drive and pay for the ice to take a pickup truck load to a processor to keep the farmer happy. And yes I'm serious.I still tell them I'm not interested in deer hunting, but one has gone as far as asking me to fill depredation tags for him while I'm coyote hunting. They're all over his property. A few weeks ago, we counted 30 in one of his fields. BTW, this owner told me he was getting ready to throw me off his property because he thought I was going to ask to hunt deer. I haven't decided yet because I'm still not sure what I'd do with the meat.