Was at the lease last weekend doing some turkey hunting and when I left drove by the new 10 acre ranchettes next to us to see what ridiculous stuff they have built. There are about 20 of then one after another. Developer bought it for $2,300 an acre few years ago and split it up to sell around $7,500 an acre. There are absolutely no trees on the places so ground is pretty bare with all the cows they each have in their little pens.

This one guy has built a 10 foot high by 15 foot wide berm along the fence on the county road. He has a feeder in front of it so he can shoot deer/hogs from his new house he just built. Hope his scope is on! The berm and feeder are uphill from his house. On the other side of the road is a mesquite pasture some guys lease an zero cover for the 2 miles west of it.

I guess that is one way to hunt now on small acreage. Ingenious or ridiculous?

Curious. We just had an adjoining land owner purchase about 50 acres. He then dozed almost the entire property and put a 6' berm around his entire property. and stuck an RV in the center of it. What in the world could he be up to?

Is his name "Gimp"?

Good lord help us

I look at rural ranch properties for sale and it is amazing the amount of properties that have been cut up into little 5-10 acre ranchettes.

Feel kind of sorry for those people that bought a good size chunk of land to get away from it all only to have their neighbors on both sides sell out to ranchette developers.
Not sure which is worse, to have a nice ranch and all of the sudden be surrounded by little Ranchettes or wind turbines?

I'd bet most of the Ranchette buyers have no clue what they are getting into
Oh that $10,000 an acre does not include electricity hookup, water well or septic, well how much will extra that cost

Thousand acres now or forget it.

Eastern Oklahoma now and prices skyrocketing

Up the road from us 98 acres (cut up into 2 to 4 acre tracts) of cedar so thick a mouse cant get through it,,,,, $15,000 per acre!!!!!!!!!

I feel sorry for people who buy a piece of property based on things NOT on the the property.

Funny thing about the people that move out to the country to get away from it all. They are usually invading territory already occupied by people who find such interlopers to be the problem.

If you don't want people living too close in either side of you, then you need to buy the land on either side of you, LOL.

Ive seen this done before. Put a high fence around the berm and raising exotics. Keeps people from shooting from the road/fenceline.

360 degree shooting range?

We have people from the Dallas area come out here and buy land. They put a travel trailer on it and start working. 6 months later the trailer is gone and there is a for sale sign. They found out the cost of electricity, septic, driveway, and water, if they can get water. Some water systems are full. Most people that buy land like that don't have a clue.

Not a bad idea. My brother had a few bucks shot from the road at his place. He heard a shot one day while near the road. He saw a white truck speeding off. By the time he got in his truck and through the gate there was no catching the shooter. He found a dead buck a few days later. He put up an interior fence to keep deer away from the road.

Simply more of those jumping on the bandwagon in the ongoing evolution of Texas deer hunting.

Instead of having a place they can afford to call their own, I guess these people should keep their asses in the city? Not everyone wants land to manage for deer.

They are going up everywhere around here. To me it defeats the whole purpose of moving out of town. Why be 7 miles from the nearest gas station only to have houses all around you with zero privacy.

First thing they do is bulldoze all the trees so they can later plant tiny ones from home depot.

Here lately everyone and their dog is building bright white modern farmhouses. Tell me you're moving from the city without telling me you're moving from the city.

Kinda sounds like some of you folks don't like freedom. Kinds sounds like whining.

My post takes place 90 miles from the city and question was about building a small berm along a public roadway so you can shoot towards it. Your only shot. Too me ridiculous and not safe. Buy better property if you want to shoot at a roadway and hopefully not beyond.

Didn't mean to hijack your thread. I just saw some similarities and was scratching my head.

It is a free country (for a little while longer). And people have property rights. I whole heartedly support and defend that. You're also free to do stupid crap.

Years ago I was hunting on a ranch and the game warden came by and visited. He told me that on the west property line a bunch of ten acre tracts had been sold on eBay and it was a nightmare for him with people not knowing which was theirs, hunting, poaching, etc. This is 20 miles west of Kermit.

Just trying to get away from the city. It’s the natural progression, more people but the same amount of land. Believe it or not I spent most of my childhood on the edge of a huge sunflower field maybe 15-20 minutes away from Dallas in the 80’s. Right off Bruton Road in Mesquite. Grandma took me in and seen like a mostly idyllic life living with grandma until they wiped out the sunflowers and built a subdivision, put some efficiency apartments in the middle of the field I walked acrosss to school. It became a dangerous place.

Even more sad deal with my mom’s house. In Balch Springs we had all the room to roam a kid could want. A nice creek, excellent pond hidden away in the woods many 5+ pound bass came out of there. Some old forgotten tank across Hickory Creek from Guy Berry Park. We used to hunt quail with pellet guns at Guy Berry Park. The park is still there but the woods across the creek have become an industrial wasteland.

So what is left to do? Buy as much land as you can afford, try to get away. I hate to see all the big places getting subdivided though. There is a whole world of big Texas ranches that are wild and beautiful places, I didn’t know anything about until the internet to be honest.

I will probably own a small piece of property soon. I am planning to buy a property adjacent to some good public ground though. Living in some type of subdivided community of 5 acres properties, I just as soon stay in the suburbs. What can you do with that? Unless it is very densely wooded, so I could at least pretend to have some seclusion and privacy out there.

But that is the problem- these folks don’t realize how small a 5 acre property is, or how boxed in they have become, until they experience it firsthand. It’s almost like fraud, trick these folks into buying 2-5 acres “out in the country” and you still have to deal with a HOA of some sort. People can be suckers.

And the last thing on their mind is how many deer their small tract will support in terms of food and habitat. They just throw up a feeder or two and consider the job done. It reminds me of the days when you would hear it said that all some folks think they need to be a cattle rancher are two cows, a pickup, and a bale of hay.

A lot of them may never have even been hunting, might not even understand how far a rifle bullet can travel. Now you got “5 acres out in the country” in the center of about 30 2-5 acre places. If your neighbors hunt and have a setup like yours you will never see a deer.

in Bastrop county, if its plated, has to at least 40acres to shoot period

Before the fire, I used to shoot in back yard on our 4 acre lot in Bastrop. Same section of dense woods as the Bastrop State Park. I called the Sheriff to let him know when I would be target shooting down in my draw - never had a problem. After the fire, forget it! All of the bullet traps (trees) were gone.