When WMA opened up just doen the road it gave access to roughly 1, 000, 000 acres for $ 40.00, it went up some, $ 48.00... Plus had Free range access behind the house...

That's pretty cheap^^^ My lease is a little over 5k acres. 2 guns at $1k each. In reality it's one gun at $2k. My dad is the other hunter but he doesn't hunt much these days. Gets a little lonely out there sometimes but I'm not complaining. It's also a very good piece of property with quality animals. Landowner is a really good guy. Had never been hunted until we came along.

Only downside is no electricity or well water and it's really difficult to access when it's wet.

What's hard to believe about that??

Oh nothing. Places like that are just growing on trees.....

about a million acres of it here in Texas, although it's not really growing at the Fed level but technically is at state

What are you talking about?

not sure if its your post or the post ^^^ above yours... Look like BoBo refered ta mine...
Leases i was on were ruffly $5.00 an acer... Every lease is different, each have own rules, work days... The big differance is affordability of each individual hunter...
Edit: Have found, more primative camp site on lease cheaper, & the more avalible game, 1deer vs 2 or hogs turkey, quail, dove & such, price goes up...

What am I talking about? He paid 48 bucks to hunt a million acres. You can to

Ok. Thanks for the info. Guess we should start a how much do you pay to hunt public land thread.

It was $ 48.00 permit, starts Sept. 1 ends last day August, if not mistaken... Draw hunts very, small fee ta apply, if drawn extra $100.00 + depending on type hunt...
My bad for putting in the public hunt, then it kinda leaseing...

It's $48 dollar yearly lease

How many lease members?

I didn't see a cap. Access is some what restricted to your hiking ability

+ 1

Can't shake a stick at .40 cents an acre so enjoy it while you can. I know some landowners don't care about the money, but maybe he doesn't realize there could be another group ready to pounce on acreage like that for $10-$15 an acre if it does have quality whitetail.

Depending on area I bet it would still go for at least $10 an acre with no exotics, electric, or water.

Keep your place on the down low and make sure your landowner never leaves the house or gets on a computer

Up until a couple years ago, I never paid over $1K (up to 1800 acres, 2 people) per year for a single lease in Texas.
NOTE: These places aren't advertised. You have to get to know some folks/landowners. Some of the biggest and best places didn't cost a dime to hunt.

So true, maybe not the biggest or best but free to hunt. I got my drivers license at 15. I would head out to the country in August, not dressed all in camo, but nicely and knock on farm house doors. I would say, "excuse me, but would it be possible for me to dove hunt at that tank in your field." 90% of the time the answer was yes. Sometimes it was yes, but not opening weekend. I always breasted half of the birds I got, (very clean) picked out all the bb's I could, and took them to the farmer/rancher. We did not have sandwich bags back then, so I wrapped them in aluminum foil. 1/2 the time he said, "thanks", and the other half he said "keep them yourself." At the end of dove season I would ask, "any chance of me hunting deer?" 50% of the time, "No, got it leased, 50% of time, yes." However, I don't think there is a patch of ground in texas that you could do that nowadays. Everything is leased or family hunting it. Of at least, it would take a bunch more knocking on doors.

We paid $2K a gun ($5.71 an acre) for our 3500 acre place last year where I took a mature 144 inch buck deer. It's a damn good price having seen many 150+ inch deer, but it's still not worth it to me with the amount of feed that has to be put out (not included in the price per acre)

Low priced options are still out there as Mark said, but it's def not the norm nowadays.

Just don't let it out where your leasing.Some ranchers don't like the hassle of leasing out to a big group of so called hunters and happy just to help pay his taxes.

I let some people hunt my ranch free each year. But no, my ranches didn't grow on trees either.

owning land, like hunting, is a privileged, wether it be town or country, all pay taxes...
As pappy once said: on me tombstone on boot hill it reads: only land i ever owned, tis this here dirt they used ta bury me with ...
& i can't even afford the taxes on that...

Privilege is a relative term. You can afford internet access, I think you will be alright.

Colt was probably at the public library with free internet while brushing up on his English

The access to internet comes with the cell phone... It doesn't pay bills or put on the ....
my above post did get my humor not worth
all though it is about hunting land ta buy or lease... was checking the land & lease section here on HF smaller the acreage the price goes up...
like others on here have mentioned, most land owners lease ta help with land taxes, yet some see it as a source of income...
The 24-7-365 hog hunt was reason got on first lease, already had a place ta hunt...
Edit: just read post bout proper use of English... Been honest bout my D- in grammar, & been working on it, some get touchy & have lost privilege over it... At first used humor like did in school days...

Roughly 10 people on lease, average 350 acres per hunter... Biggest lease i was on was 1,100 acres $ 200.00-$ 250.00 a gun... It had the 24-7-365 hog hunts, were did my night hunts, flash light off, pistol on me hip...
Opening week of deer season, each hunted their own stand, after that, it was more relaxed... On two different occasions, seen hunters, on lease, not members... First time, confronted two hunters, they said, they had permission from a member, politely told them rules, they not allowed with-out member present... The other time, seen hunter in stand, but they left & hustled ta their get-a-way parked little over 150 yrds on side of road...