SC Hunter
Senior Member
I have about 100 dollars in the 180 acres so far for next year. 2 ribeye steaks and a bottle of bourbon for the land owner. He just wants to see the kids get after it.
It is unfortunate. I just hung out with the guys who have the club next to my private property after they invited me over for a cookout a couple of weekends ago. They lease about 1400 acres from our cousins who do not hunt. There are 10 of them and I can tell how much they love the land and enjoy being there. Some of them are more serious hunters and the others in the group just want a place to get away from the real world it seems. I feel for them because it could be taken from them in a heartbeat considering they don't own the property but the odds are in their favor. I believe my wife and I will likely have first right of refusal to purchase any of the property that comes up for sale next to me (if it ever does) and I intend to let them keep hunting it as long as they like. I already let them turkey hunt our own land considering my boys are into travel baseball nearly every weekend through the spring and into the summer. They are respectable and help keep a watch on our property when they are there. They are definitely a benefit to have around.Last 10 years seems like the blink of an eye. Just imagine what lease prices will be 10 years from today...More urban sprawl...fewer acres to lease...more folks hunting. Ain't a good outlook.
Not to mention all of the private land that is owned by older folks that won't even be here 10 years from now, which in many cases, will mean new subdivision or sold for personal use.
What was it before.Our new agreement came yesterday at $16.60 an ac not including electricity or camp area
Sad, Parents work their lives to save something for their kids, And all they want is the money they can get for selling it.Not to mention all of the private land that is owned by older folks that won't even be here 10 years from now, which in many cases, will mean new subdivision or sold for personal use.
What was it before.
It is unfortunate. I just hung out with the guys who have the club next to my private property after they invited me over for a cookout a couple of weekends ago. They lease about 1400 acres from our cousins who do not hunt. There are 10 of them and I can tell how much they love the land and enjoy being there. Some of them are more serious hunters and the others in the group just want a place to get away from the real world it seems. I feel for them because it could be taken from them in a heartbeat considering they don't own the property but the odds are in their favor. I believe my wife and I will likely have first right of refusal to purchase any of the property that comes up for sale next to me (if it ever does) and I intend to let them keep hunting it as long as they like. I already let them turkey hunt our own land considering my boys are into travel baseball nearly every weekend through the spring and into the summer. They are respectable and help keep a watch on our property when they are there. They are definitely a benefit to have around.
Are you talking about different tracts?I'm just the opposite as you milk man, our property has decreased in value I was in the club for 28 years, we had 700 acres of agg field. Now we have 1800 acres of pine trees and continual tree harvest, when I first got in the club it was $900 and now I got out when the rate hit 3200. Hated to leave it but the price of lacing has gone through the roof
Last 10 years seems like the blink of an eye. Just imagine what lease prices will be 10 years from today...More urban sprawl...fewer acres to lease...more folks hunting. Ain't a good outlook.
Not to mention all of the private land that is owned by older folks that won't even be here 10 years from now, which in many cases, will mean new subdivision or sold for personal use.
IMO, realistically lease prices have not inflated at the rate of most other things.
I have one lease that is costing 3x what it did in 1988. But the value of the land has gone up exponentially.
Compare home prices from then to now.
As others have said a lot of it is supply and demand.
I’d pay more for a clear cut than pine plantationThe deer hunting lease where I pig hunt had probably 1/2 of the land clear cut.
Then the paper company raised the price due to the land being "More Diverse "now. Craziest thing I ever heard of.
I’d pay more for a clear cut than pine plantation