Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Brought first load of crap back from lease

Sorry to hear this Hanco. We've had the same property leased for 32 years.

Our little honey hole is going through the same thing. Headed to arbitration and delays keep coming by attorneys for a truly unique individual who has opposed every effort at settlement. Meanwhile a “church friend” may snatch 1/4 of it from us and some Long Island transplants are doing some serious brownnosing for another 1/4. The unique individual hates everybody involved and most likely will just give his 1/4 to friends. The last 1/4 belongs to a nice lady who has a benign brain tumor. Not looking good for the home team, us. Most beautiful land I’ve ever had to blessing of traversing.

That's why I am happy as a clam owning both of the small properties I own. My stand at the Alabama house is less than a 200 yard walk from my back door. Not the best place in the world but I will improve it and even if not there are already enough deer here to make do on .

East Texas? Not me. You could never be sure your stuff would be there when you return.

My previous lease turned over four times in the decades we were on it. Finally, the fourth owner gave us the pink slip. We had great times there and it had plenty of deer including big bucks. Been on a new lease now for three years and have yet to kill a buck. Been some good ones taken but I just haven't seen the one I want yet. Lots of hogs and turkey to be hunted.

That's a rough deal Hanco. Been there and had hunting land access removed from me due to change of ownership and mostly urban sprawl. Not knowing one year to the next if I had a place, I bought my own farm. I'd love a much larger tract. However, money only goes so far.

Been there done that. It’s crazy how you accumulate at the lease. I’m going on my third season on my lease now. It’s not the greatest but it will do until something better comes along.

Hopefully you'll find another one.

Well it is nice to have so many animals to take pictures of. Nice also to help maintain the deer population, reduce the feral hog population and hunt coyotes whenever. It's very nice to have a place on site to sleep in a bed too. It's not just about hunting but the experiences one can set up on a nice lease. My favorite lease of all time ended when the owner died and his kids wanted to sell the property. Killed my biggest buck the last day I was able to hunt on that place. It was one tough piece of property.

It can be as bad at the places I've hunted around
Pecos, Sweetwater, San Angelo, Freer, etc. etc.
A lot of people never notice that there's been
trespassing at their lease unless something is
missing they're looking for.
The one I hunted in Coke county had the oilfield
gaugers helping themselves to whatever game
they wanted since they had a gate key and knew
the place from one fence to another.
If you don't live on a place daily, I can guarantee
the neighbors all know when you come and go.
Many that hunt will trespass during the middle of
the week when you're not there. Many times it's
not the neighbors that pillage your goods, it's
their dopehead kids, or somebody that hunted
with them as their "guest "
One place I hunted, the lease "manager" that
handled the dealings with the land owner
had brought his brother-in-law for a Christmas
trip as a guest, and the brother-in-law just took
it upon hisself to come hunt whenever he
decided that he wanted to, and eventually
started bringing guests of his own even
though he wasn't a lease member.
Stuff happens everywhere, sometimes you
just don't see it happening

There's places in E Texas I've hunted where
you're not going to walk and stalk whitetail deer.
They're wary enough to keep a hundred yards of
trees and brush and briars between you and them.
If you want to hunt those places, you'll have
to park in a treestand or a blind of some sort.
It's not like the classic field&stream red plaid
wool coat and ll bean boots in the snow doing
a whitetail tracking Benoit brothers hunt, or
clambering up a sheer rockface at 9000 feet
type thing.

Sorry to hear of an era ending this. Keep us posted on the new place.


Okie John

I been there. It sucked but I always enjoyed learning to hunt a new place.

Never fun losing your old stomping grounds. Seems the more a family has the more dysfunctional they become when the head of the family pushes up the daisy's

My landowner is 95, old school 3 rd grade education millionaire who made his money making moonshine, had his own saw mill and used his money to buy land.
His sons are taking over now and it's so iffy , it's all about who will pay the most money for the lease.
When he dies ill be in the same boat...uncertain times for sure.

It is heartbreaker to lose a good hunting spot. I feel your pain.

Exactly, very dense brush, have to hunt roads, pipelines etc

Going Thursday for another load

Went through that about 4 years ago….

Hunted a buddies place for about 10 years.. family land.

We split the land taxes, wasnt a free ride.

2 of his siblings wanted money more than land..


Got some stands, feeders.. left some.

Good / bad of it was we treated it like it was our own…

Need to make improvements, we did it. Need to fix a road or culvert, we did it.

I enjoyed it. Only deer ive mounted came off that place.

I feel your pain, bud. I hauled all my stuff out of the hunting club 2 weeks ago save for 2 cameras on solar. One of the landowners has 240 acres up for sale that would be part of my favorite areas and would block out several great parcels that I hunt. He’s asking way too much money for it but a new owner would not have to allow access after our lease is up in June. I dang sure don’t want to take a chance on it staying leased and having to retrieve my stuff and dance with rattlers and copperheads in the heat of summer. If we lose that part of the lease I’ll put my stands elsewhere.
Good luck!