would you be willing to do this to hunt land?

[singlestacksig]

I have an acquaintance who has a wooded tract of land in an urban archery zone.. and he would like some archery hunters to hunt it for him to reduce the deer load..
But he might be on the property during the weekends, and wants the hunter / hunters to fill out a schedule of when who gets to hunt when..So that he knows who is going to be hunting when...

He has shown the property to several people and no one wants to do that... For all the people who claim to want to hunt private land I am surprised..
what do you guys think? also , any bow hunters interested in hunting near Lafayette ?

 

[snapping turtle]

Sounds fair. Heck i book/make plans on hunting adventures a few years in advance at times.

Maybe a simple siign in and sign out list. Mainly i just get asked to park in a centian spot. Or not to cross into a certian area.

He may also just be making sure that his area gets hunted, I have seen good areas go unhunted all year because permission was granted and no one ever showed up to hunt.

 

[Mike H]

I would do that. It does not sound unreasonable to me.

 

[1911Shooter]

I have had to do things like this before. One place that I have hunted for the last 5 or 6 years, the owner makes the hunters have a meeting with him and also meet his family. He always makes you give him a copy of your drivers license and hunting license and he also gets drivers plate numbers. All he it doing is making sure that the people he allows on his land are good honest people.

 

[IncendiaryGunner]

I see no reason why that is not reasonable...

Access to private land to hunt, without paying for a lease... all you have to do is plan/schedule in advance?

Too bad I am not close Sounds like a good deal.

 

[singlestacksig]

yeah, We can't figure out why folks would not want to do this.. I forwared the contact info of those who sent me PMs ...

 

[DThurston]

Seems completely reasonable. Maybe most folks don't ask that of hunters, but that seems reasonable to me. And if I'm going on someone's land with a lethal weapon, I don't mind letting them know who I am and such. Again, perfectly reasonable.

If he ends up needing more folks, let me know. I'm not comfortable with my bow yet, but will be before the end of the season and would be interested.

 

[mertbl]

I'd be all over a deal like that. His land, his rules.

 

[jmiller676]

I'd be in. Seems like a reasonable man.

 

[JDubb]

I live close to laf and always wanted to hunt in a urban zone. That is a heck of deal and it could have the benefits of holding some big deer!!!! THe place I have to go I park at the barn and walk 500yards one way to go hunting. Good thing is I have to call the owner and he uses his tractor to get my deer. He just don't want ruts from trucks getting stuck, which understandable.

 

[dawg1981]

I would be very interested!


Dawg

 

[MRP2003]

Sounds like a great deal. I would love to be able to hunt just for does. It is meat in the freezer for me and anyone else that likes the meat.

I just saw a small pie-bald buck being checked in this afternoon that was taken in an urban area. The rack was just starting to shed it's velvet. Pretty cool looking hide.

 

[Zoub]

I have done a lot more then fill out a schedule to gain land access, most of it hard labor and you still always let the owner know when you will be on his land and ask if it will be OK the day you plan to go.

A schedule will also reduce conflict or having too many people running around at the same time and being an urban area he won;t have to call the Cops since he knows who is there and when. If his land is near the Wabash or one of the major creeks, it will be covered in deer. I use to live upstream from Lafayette.

They blew it.

 

[CindyE]

i think it would be a good thing, especially if he limited the number of people that could hunt at a time. that is one thing that concerns me about hunting- other hunters.

 

[shooter1054]

The land owner sounds like a smart man. He just wants to know who what when where why and how. His land his rules. If you don't like it, GTFO. I'd be willing to do this as well as share venison and help out taking care of the land through out the year. Just showing up in the fall to hunt someone's land and nothing else is in poor form.

 

[! twitty]

Sounds good to me. Besides, I would rather know when I could have the place to myself versus driving down there and finding out someone is hunting your spot.

 

[ShootinDave]

As crowded as public land is getting and as hard as private land is getting ,you would be nuts not to--and kudos to the land owner for caring what goes on

 

[H.T.]

For the life of me I can't see why any hunter would have a problem with this.

 

[singlestacksig]

well i passed info along, and he contacted 5 of you guys.. and all did not want to hunt it..
any reason why?

He is putting an ad on Craig's list...

 

[Chefcook]

When I read the title to this thread I thought he was going to ask hunters to split him a cord of wood or something, this sounds like a very reasonable request to me...