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I got off lease in central Texas. The four brothers are fighting over that place. We don’t know from one day to the next if we have a place or not. I didn’t want to be going up there in July to get my things. I’m gonna miss that place, but don’t to be in the middle of that. I have a piney woods lease, so I’ll have a place to go.
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Sorry to hear of that
BTDT Always a sh** show when the family starts trying to get a piece of daddy's or pawpaw's lifetime work You're wise to bow out early in the game and still have your goods.
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Smart move on many levels.
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I am glad we don't have to deal with that style of hunting up here.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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I am glad we don't have to deal with that style of hunting up here. My dad and brother lease a farm in Missouri. Drive down from WI to hunt occasionally. It's becoming more prevalent but "owning the land" is still the #1 way in WI/MI - IMO.
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I am glad we don't have to deal with that style of hunting up here. I wish we didn’t either.
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I'll stop hunting the day I can't get it done with boots on the ground. I can't imagine need all that crap to hunt.
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I'll stop hunting the day I can't get it done with boots on the ground. I can't imagine need all that crap to hunt. I felt that way until I got older
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I'll stop hunting the day I can't get it done with boots on the ground. I can't imagine need all that crap to hunt. Thinking it's a regional thing. Hard to stomp around something that half ass resembles the thickness of the African bush but near as much roaming room. Just sucks there isn't low pressured public ground or more opportunity to hunt private just by knocking on doors.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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I'll stop hunting the day I can't get it done with boots on the ground. I can't imagine need all that crap to hunt. To each is own!
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I feel yo' pain.
Have done that three times previously in the last 25 years.
Good luck in east Texas!
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I feel your pain too. Its no fun packing up all your stuff and bringing it home. I did it 3 years ago. I left a couple of ladder stands there. I couldn't get it all in one trip. Not worth driving 6 hours one way to go back for two leaners.
Good Luck on your piney woods lease.
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I feel yo' pain.
Have done that three times previously in the last 25 years.
Good luck in east Texas!
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GWB This is about the sixth time for me. Cshit happens
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Sorry to hear it. At least you're getting it done before summer sets in.
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Sorry to hear it. At least you're getting it done before summer sets in. That is what I worried about most
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I'll stop hunting the day I can't get it done with boots on the ground. I can't imagine need all that crap to hunt. I’ve given up on “permission” hunting after some disappointment with a fickle and fussy landowner. Leasing isn’t common around here, lots of farms are now held in family trusts or otherwise complicated with multiple players. There’s 1400 acres of public land 20 minutes from my home, and a lot more within an hour or two. I don’t have much trouble making meat during our long seasons, and often have no one else around to contend with, especially if I stay off the places the dog-walkers frequent. My stands were removed during a recent “renovation” by the DNR, but they had already earned their keep, and it saved me the work of hauling them out. Trees are out for me now ‘cause I don’t bounce so good, replaced by a 21” tripod stool and a $3 kneeling cushion. Saw more deer last year than ever, maybe because I wasn’t tied to fixed locations and was able to adjust to the wind.
What fresh Hell is this?
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I'll stop hunting the day I can't get it done with boots on the ground. I can't imagine need all that crap to hunt. I’ve given up on “permission” hunting after some disappointment with a fickle and fussy landowner. Leasing isn’t common around here, lots of farms are now held in family trusts or otherwise complicated with multiple players. There’s 1400 acres of public land 20 minutes from my home, and a lot more within an hour or two. I don’t have much trouble making meat during our long seasons, and often have no one else around to contend with, especially if I stay off the places the dog-walkers frequent. My stands were removed during a recent “renovation” by the DNR, but they had already earned their keep, and it saved me the work of hauling them out. Trees are out for me now ‘cause I don’t bounce so good, replaced by a 21” tripod stool and a $3 kneeling cushion. Saw more deer last year than ever, maybe because I wasn’t tied to fixed locations and was able to adjust to the wind. I have 4 tripods I’ll have to bring back next week
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Reading these leasing stories makes me very grateful for the 40 acres of remote, undevelopable, jeep accessible land that I own here in NH. It is surrounded by 100's of acres of unposted private and public land. Certainly not the best deer population in the country but very light hunting pressure. I would hate to deal with the uncertainties of leasing which is, thankfully, uncommon here in New England.
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I have it both ways. Here in New England, it's private friends land, mine and public land. In Mississippi, my brother and I are on a 550 acre lease.
Simply a case of working with what you've got.
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