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

OK, Hanco, since you are showing all the stuff from your lease, I have a question. What is all the fencing for? Were you trapping hogs? We don't have any problems yet in Michigan, but I know you do in certain parts of Texas. Sorry about your lease and good luck with your piney woods lease

Sorry about your lease. Seems to be more common, both having to lease and then things getting screwed up when the family patriarch or matriarch passes on. Glad we own our property

Sorry to hear about your lease, a good friend had the same thing happen just a few days ago and is about to start retrieving stands and feeders. He’d been on the lease for over 30 years. I had it happen about 8 years ago but we only lost half of it.

Good luck and take care

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

When I get time I’m going to repair one feeder pen, some of fence has some bullet issues. Then sell fence and a pig gate. Maybe 2 pens and pig gates. I wouldn’t know what to ask for one. I have two pens and gates in East Texas now. I don’t need six pens and pig gates. I have 8 damn feeders I need to do something with.

IIRC I've got about $150 per panel(not counting my labor) in square tubing and hog panel @16' each. Saloon Gates @ Academy are +/ $200.

IIRC you have jack up feeders with winches, bails, barrels, timer units. I'd imagine you could get $300 each.

ya!


GWB

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.

Most people don’t like others on their property

Can you blame them?