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Damn that sucks but I feel your pain. My sons and I lost our lease year before last and haven’t been able to find another one. Good Luck to you.

The guys have some great ones on camera…… at night!

Man I hate to hear things like that. If I was the property owner and I had the same people year in and year out and could trust them and not really have to worry about anything, you really can't put a price on that in my opinion. I'd stay with the same lessees and leave it at that. Hope you find a better property and a landowner with a little better morals.

Don’t they have lights in TX?

The other difference is on a lease you hunt all season on the lease fee not just one trip. Not apples to apples.

Sorry about your lease Hanco. In places were leasing is way it is , thats the way it goes. I have hunted all my adult life in places were leases were the norm so I know the feeling when you get that call.

Currently we lease 4000 acres from a timber company in AL. 10 guys $3000 per guy. Not everyone is up there at the same time as its 9 hrs away from where we all live. I enjoy being up there for about 4 weeks or more a year and to me its well worth it. Its a good deer lease. Some hogs are moving in and the guys are all shooting them on sight.

When I hunted in FLA we were constantly getting developed out or moved around on a ranch. Moving around on a ranch wasn't bad as we were able to keep our camp in the same spot but had hunting rights to different areas. I was ok with getting a new area to hunt every three to five years. Not too much hassle but moving leases and camps both was a big task.

Sorry to hear it Hanco.
Has happened to me several times over the years.

Thank you. It happens sooner or later

It sucks for sure,

Had it happen about 4 years ago, after hunting a place for over 10 years.

Kids decided it was time to divide the place up and sell it.

Always knew it woukd happen though.

No hard feelings, not everyone hunts now days or interested in land. Theyd rather trade it for a house in the mountains or condo on the beach.

Hate to here this Hanco. Hope the new place works out for you.

That sucks Hanco. Our lease went up over $5k last year.

Sorry to hear about your bad luck hanco. That sucks. My lease goes up 5% every year. There are no deals to be found. everything is going up in my State. Developers are buying up everything they can. They are starting to build houses that I can see from one of my stands. maybe 300 yards away. On the other side of the lease I have a house that was just built about 250 yards from another stand. Dont know how much longer I will be able to hunt on this lease.

Pretty much what happened to me over the last 30 years in FLA. First a college , then housing and commercial developement. Theres even a Bass Pro Shop on a part of one of my old leases. We finally packed it in on FL hunting and got a lease in Alabama. I miss the old days of being 30 minutes from our lease. But do to technology and our ages we can get away enough to really enjoy our lease 9hrs away enough to make it worth it. Much cooler and better weather for deer hunting up there as well.

We went through something similar but less traumatic this past season. The people whose land we had been on for years were thinking of not leasing it to us anymore so we were without a place. But right at the start of the season, they changed their mind (I assume their alternate plans fell through) so we got the lease back but had zero opportunity to do any of the pre-season prep work we would have normally done. We still put some deer in the freezer but it was stressful & disappointing before the season started & less than optimal once we finally got out there since we had removed a lot of our stuff already.

I'm fortunate to also have a childhood friend who lets me hunt on his property in Mississippi whenever I want so it's always nice having a backup plan in a nearby state since not everyone does. I let him know I appreciate it by showing up for work days throughout the year & buying stands to help develop the land as nice place for our old crew to rendezvous at during the fall & winter. It's a lot of socializing with a bit of hunting thrown in. Having to buy an out-of-state license is insignificant when the "lease" cost is $0.

Sorry to hear this happened to you because I know how bad it can make you feel.

Yep it a sign of the times & will get worse. More people ,less huntable land. Can't blame the landowner for wanting more money. Everything is going up on him too. At least he gave yall a chance to keep it 1st. We got tired of things happening to leases, bad members drama etc. & finally bought our own place. I know everyone can't do that though.
Good Luck on finding another place.

2500.00 per gun. How many deer do you get to shoot per year for that and how much does that come to per pound of venison ?

Don't start.

It's no wonder there are so many hunters that say venison is expensive meat these days. It isn't necessarily so.

Depends on the locale. Pay to play is the nature of the beast in states with minimal public acreage.

Less than 2% of the state is public hunting ground here, and your odds of drawing a tag on most of those public tracts are about the same as getting hit by lightning while a shark is eating you.

You're either gonna own a block of land big enough to hunt, which sells for ~$10k/per acre these days, be lucky enough to have a family member with land that'll let you hunt it, or pay for a lease. Your odds of deer hunting here are slim to none otherwise.

I haven't put pen to paper & actually calculated this out but my guess is that if I was making this decision for financial reasons based on common sense, then giving up hunting & just eating Wagyu beef every day would be the more affordable option.