The price of a lease...

[mechanic]

I've been looking at leases lately.  There are more than ever on the market, as more and more people have trouble paying taxes, etc. and are looking for ways to make the land pay.  The problem is, a really nice cut of land is $15.00 or more an acre!  Not too many years ago, I could buy land for $250.00 an acre...and I guess I should have.

Now a 100 acre tract, plus insurance, food plots, and maintenance, and a guy can quickly shell out well over 2 bills.  And he would have enough land for one or two hunters at best.

I vote that we make some more land, so the price will go down, so I can afford to hunt.

What  yall think?

Ben

[BBF]

Well it is OK with me if you can find a cheap swamp and figure how to drain it.

[mechanic]

Now there's an idea I hadn't thought of....except some of the land for lease is already swamp.....

[CannonKrazy]

A man I worked for on a farm wanted me to buy a few acres of land (1980). This was the year I got out of high school. Being young and dumb with girls on my mind, land didn't seem important at the time. He drove me through a track of land that he wanted to sell. At the time it was $285 an acre with scattered pines and hard wood. I drive past that track of land about every couple months and wish I had of listened to the man.
Good hunting land around home is hard to get without joining a club. Most clubs here are in the range of 500 to 1200 dollars a year to hunt. If it wasn't for a few good friends that let me hunt their property I couldn't afford it.

[PowPow]

$8-10 per acre seems to be the norm in Alabama.
That is based on 600-1000 acre tracts. Expect to pay more for swamp.

[BBF]

................................... Expect to pay more for swamp.

Are you serious

[PowPow]

................................... Expect to pay more for swamp.

Are you serious

if it has ducks.

[BUGEYE]

If you try to drain a swamp today you'll get a visit from the feds.
the days of doing as you please on your own land is over.

[mechanic]

A couple of us are looking at a large lease in Alabama.  It would mean driving 60 miles, and buying out of state license, but the lease is 1/2 the price, and we have the use of tractor and equipment for plots.  There is also a camper already there.  We're going to make one more walk over before we commit.

There are large wooded tracts, a good bit of bottom land, and some great open pastures.  Just have to shoot around the cows.....

The lease we had in Ga. went up to $18.00 acre.  I'm about ready to buy a beef for the freezer and go crow hunting for fun.......can't afford too much more of this high priced hunting with everything else going up....

Ben

[CannonKrazy]

Yep 12 to 18 bucks an acre will add up real quick. Throw in the time and work involved for up keep plus fuel for a tractor. The price of hunting is mighty steep.
I figure the cost of dues and expences during a season beef seems to be a bargin.

[pastorp]

Deer meat is healthier for you to eat........ With bypass surgery aproching $250,000 a hunting lease is a bargin.     Just a thought........

Regards,

[PowPow]

I figure the cost of dues and expences during a season beef seems to be a bargin.

Seems to be a bargain?

Omaha Steaks in a gift basket is much cheaper than the venison in my freezer.
Lease cost, gas to drive to the club, (time away where I snuck off from work)... caviar is cheaper.
I'm hunting for memories and fellowship. Eating the deer is a way to prolong the memory.

It would be an interesting thread to ask how folks what the price per pound of the venison in their freezer is.
I think I will start one in the next day or so. Got to do the figurin first.

[mechanic]

Caviar IN Russia is about the same price...LOL.

Ben

[BUGEYE]

mechanic,  the georgia DNR is pushing to get hikers  bikers and other riffraff on to our WMAs and those people will start complaining about the people with guns, so hunters will be pushed from public land on to private land and lease prices will be out of reach for most people.
pushing hunters from public land won't be protected by our right to hunt and fish per our constitution. 
the only public hunting land will be national forest, and of course the liberals will try to take that away too.

[mechanic]

Your right Bugeye.  When I was a boy, we had no deer in this part of Ga.  I would often go hunting with an old 20 ga. riding down the road with it across the handle bars until I got to my favorite swamp.  The land belonged to the county, part of the prison camp.  No one ever bothered or questioned me.  Along the way, folks would ask me to stop by their place and thin out some rabbit or squirril.  There were plenty of fields with quail.  I just waited till all crops were in and away I went.  It seemed I was welcome where ever I go.

We had a generation of "hunters" however who began to abuse the priviledge, damage property, and use no judgement.  Then land got posted.  Taxes escalated dramatically.  Then land was for lease.

My first lease was a tract of timber co. land, I got 150 acres for $75.00, and they cut me a road halfway in and cleared a parking / camping area.

The good old days....

Ben

[gstewart44]

Durn, boys,   I be feelin quite lucky down here in my South Jawja piece o land!.       We got dem piggies year round, deers, turkeys (right now  ), rabbits, coyotes, and too many pesky Black Bears that have destroyed 22 feeders in the past year!
We gots us one big lease but dey be chargin us only $3 per acre.     I's feelin might good bouts now.    If'n anyone likes Piney woods and swamp down 'round Waycross way let me know.   We's may have a few openin's dis year. 

[PowPow]

...piggies year round, deers, turkeys (right now  ), rabbits, coyotes, and too many pesky Black Bears...
...$3 per acre...
...We's may have a few openin's dis year...

awful tempting... too bad its 400 miles (6 hours) one way from B'ham thru Hotlanta on a Friday evening.

[mechanic]

Durn, boys,   I be feelin quite lucky down here in my South Jawja piece o land!.       We got dem piggies year round, deers, turkeys (right now  ), rabbits, coyotes, and too many pesky Black Bears that have destroyed 22 feeders in the past year!
We gots us one big lease but dey be chargin us only $3 per acre.     I's feelin might good bouts now.    If'n anyone likes Piney woods and swamp down 'round Waycross way let me know.   We's may have a few openin's dis year. 

I'm gettin pretty interested. 

[AtlLaw]

I'm gettin pretty interested.

Me to Ben!  Think them Florida boys would like some smooooth Jawja corn?  Might lower the membership fee some!