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50 cents an acre
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08/10/16 12:32 PM
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Texas Dan
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That's what we paid for a hunting lease back in Mississippi when I first started deer hunting in the 70's. I can also remember paying $2.50 an acre for a Champion Paper Company lease in East Texas back in the late 80's. Now it seems Weyerhaeuser is asking $10 an acre for leases in that same area of Mississippi that I hunted as a kid. And I suspect they will have no problem finding customers. Some good leases available for those with ties in Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and other states. Weyerhaeuser Hunting Leases
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: Texas Dan]
#6402461
08/10/16 08:29 PM
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Stompy
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When I was a kid in the early 70's my Dad paid $50 for a season lease in Mason county. Fond memories of that place, it was Sterling Jordan's place.
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Re: 50 cents an acre
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08/10/16 08:55 PM
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txtrophy85
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My grandpa paid $2500 for a new ford truck back in 76'
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: Texas Dan]
#6402575
08/10/16 09:31 PM
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majekman
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In early and mid 60s my gramps would trade some whiskey and couple gallons of homemade wild mustang grape wine to a LO in Frio county for hunting on a couple thousand acres. Was some dayum good hunting too. We were only ones that hunted it.
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: Texas Dan]
#6402612
08/10/16 09:54 PM
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redchevy
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Leased a place in Kendal Co for $2.25 per acre from 1990-2012. Gave up the lease to hunt our property and turned it over to a couple of my family members that now pay abpit $3.00 per acre on it.
780 acres low fence and they have killed a deer in the 140's I think every year they have been on it.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: Texas Dan]
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08/10/16 09:57 PM
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PMK
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I still remember my dad and his hunting buddies (9 total on lease) gripping when their 900 acre Llano county lease went up to $450 (split 9 ways, or $50/paid hunter) in the late 60s and that was for all hunting rights, could put 1 or 50 hunters on it, LO didn't care, just ridding the land of deer. Each of the paid hunters (9x) could bring their wife & kids to hunt (off own license, not the paid hunter's license) which was their group's rules, not LO rules. My first lease I had to pay for out of my own pocket was roughly 1979 was 240 acres northwestern Williamson county for 2 hunters (of 1050 acre ranch), $200 per hunter and we could bring our wife to deer hunt with us. We had access to the entire 1050 acre ranch year around for fishing (about a dozen well stocked dirt stock tanks) and dove plus could bring friends for dove hunting. The second year, the old landowner went up to $240 & built us a 16x16 3.5 sided pole barn to use as a cabin like he had done with the other hunters at the main hunting camp (the other 910 acres) 25 plus years earlier that they converted into a very nice camphouse, they had electricity run to theirs too and added on another 10x16 extension for bunks. I hunted there 4-5 years without another price increase and then went to hunt with my dad since there was an opening on his lease ... still kicking myself for letting that one go! ... 30-35 minutes from my house, year around access, hunt anything except varmints (the old man and his brother still headlighted) and armadillos (that's another story).
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
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Re: 50 cents an acre
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#6402853
08/11/16 12:31 AM
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Slow Drifter
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My dad and I pulled up to a farmhouse in about '77. Dad asked the man if we could hunt his back acres that evening. Man says, "Yeah, but do you want to hunt or kill a deer? If you want to hunt, have at it. If you want a deer, just sit down by the feedlot about 5:30."
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Re: 50 cents an acre
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#6402858
08/11/16 12:33 AM
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kweber
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I've seen enough urban deer hunters to never allow another here again.
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: Texas Dan]
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08/11/16 02:35 AM
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HS2
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In 30 years, they'll be sitting around saying "I remember way back in the 2010's we could get a lease for less than $15 an acre. I sure wish I could get that again."
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: Texas Dan]
#6403264
08/11/16 11:39 AM
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HWY_MAN
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I've only leased a place one time in my life and it was 12 sections and paid 50 cents an acre, when we hunted down on the Pecos, Pop and 5 friends leased 8,000 acres for 100 dollars apiece.
Yes! A Weatherby does kill them deader.
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: Texas Dan]
#6403294
08/11/16 12:16 PM
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titan2232
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Our current place in Val Verde is only $6 an acre. Water, electric, and cabin
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Re: 50 cents an acre
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08/11/16 12:21 PM
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stxranchman
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8 of us pay .37 an acre for our West Texas Mule Deer lease nowadays.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: stxranchman]
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08/11/16 02:20 PM
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titan2232
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8 of us pay .37 an acre for our West Texas Mule Deer lease nowadays. How many acres STX? My over/under bet is at 20K acres
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: stxranchman]
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08/11/16 04:59 PM
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txtrophy85
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8 of us pay .37 an acre for our West Texas Mule Deer lease nowadays. Never thought of it like that but your right!
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: Texas Dan]
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08/11/16 05:35 PM
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I hunt 10,000 acres in Yuma County, Colorado for free.
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Re: 50 cents an acre
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#6403708
08/11/16 05:50 PM
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therancher
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I hunt 10,000 acres in Yuma County, Colorado for free. Cool. How do you get there and back for free?
Crotchety old bastidge
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: therancher]
#6403725
08/11/16 06:01 PM
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kdkane1971
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I hunt 10,000 acres in Yuma County, Colorado for free. Cool. How do you get there and back for free?
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: Texas Dan]
#6403812
08/11/16 07:06 PM
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Chunky Monkey
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I just got 4 years of exclusive hunting rights on 100 acres for doing some labor for a woman.
It appears to be in a primo spot too. Next to (or close to) the Brazos Bend State Park
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: Texas Dan]
#6404366
08/12/16 01:40 AM
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poisonivie
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Uhoh. Just what kind of work did you do for this woman ?
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: poisonivie]
#6404605
08/12/16 09:11 AM
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kweber
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Uhoh. Just what kind of work did you do for this woman ? leave him alone.... he found a honey-hole....
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: therancher]
#6404679
08/12/16 12:14 PM
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redchevy
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I hunt 10,000 acres in Yuma County, Colorado for free. Cool. How do you get there and back for free? Take a buddy and make him drive
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: 50 cents an acre
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08/12/16 12:42 PM
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Chunky Monkey
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Uhoh. Just what kind of work did you do for this woman ? It was back breaking work and really hard too.
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Re: 50 cents an acre
[Re: therancher]
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08/12/16 04:24 PM
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I hunt 10,000 acres in Yuma County, Colorado for free. Cool. How do you get there and back for free? I don't consider driving expenses the same as paying $X amount per acre to hunt. I was born in CO and go back every year to see family and friends at that time of year anyways. So the extra driving to the place I hunt from my family's place is about 80 miles round trip. I'll take that expense any day over shelling out a big lease fee in TX but I do have a couple of places in TX that let me shoot does for free as well but they aren't 10,000 acres.
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Re: 50 cents an acre
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#6407064
08/14/16 01:05 AM
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papa45
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Ah, the good old days, when a new car was $2500 and a five-figure income was everybody's dream!
I paid $5 for all day or $25 for the whole season to hunt doves in the mid 70's.
First deer lease I got on in Texas was 1976. Year-round lease was $1/acre. When I contacted the land owner to renew for the next year, he wanted $2/acre. I told him he was crazy and moved elsewhere.
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Re: 50 cents an acre
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08/14/16 02:30 AM
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I've seen enough urban deer hunters to never allow another here again. Just cause one lives in the city doesn't mean one was always from the city.
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