Lease Prices over a decade.

[slicktricker]

For 5K, I could pay for 2 or 3 over the counter, public hunts for elk... that’s bang for your buck. I’ll take public land deer hunting over 5K for 212acres per hunter any day.


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I couldn't agree with you more. Plus you're not limited to the same ground.

[cj7zrcool]

My first lease in 1986 was $250/ea X 2 for 400 acres with a cattle shed in Hamilton Co.
My new lease is $2250/ea X 2 for 240 acres with a very nice house & large barn in Throckmorton Co.

[Throwin Darts]

If you think leasing is expensive once you saw the numbers on buying and owning a place your head would explode. Now that I own my place I realize what a ridiculously good deal I had leasing and having access to land for a few thousand a year. The yearly lease fee I was paying wouldn’t cover one monthly payment on a land note.

[Hockley]

If you think leasing is expensive once you saw the numbers on buying and owning a place your head would explode. Now that I own my place I realize what a ridiculously good deal I had leasing and having access to land for a few thousand a year. The yearly lease fee I was paying wouldn’t cover one monthly payment on a land note.

This. We bought a place to hunt on (32 acres), but we are also on a lease to have the lease experience. The 2000 plus acres in the hill country is like haveing a state park to yourself.

[Big pig]

This. We bought a place to hunt on (32 acres), but we are also on a lease to have the lease experience. The 2000 plus acres in the hill country is like haveing a state park to yourself.

I’m have been hunting Texas leases for the past 55 years. First lease was $1/ acre. 100 acres per man. Renting a ranch with a good population of deer is a great deal. I also have some private land, but love the ability to hunt different terrain and a variety of animals with 4 good friends.

[Muddman]

I quit leasing about 10 years ago and now just hunt public land. I go to Colorado elk hunting every year now which I didn't do when I had a deer lease. I like hunting new country, so Arkansas might be the next place to hunt.

[cuttingedge]

Ya.....all of Texas! It's becoming a rich mans sport.

This. It is a money making business. Someone has the money to pay the high prices and the rest of us can pound sand.

[kruppa24]

Some expensive venison that's for sure. But most hobbies are expensive.

[TXhoghunter94]

This. It is a money making business. Someone has the money to pay the high prices and the rest of us can pound sand.

I don't think it's exactly a money making business. Most leases are anywhere from $10-$25 an acre and if I were to buy that land it would probably cost me $3000-$10000 an acre not including all of the taxes and maintenance. I would still love to own my own place one day but like many others have said I think it's a cheap price to pay to be able to enjoy that much land and basically treat it as your own.

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[Mule Skinner]

Owning your one small place has lots of pros and cons. That being said, your own place is just that and you don’t have to worry about dumping a bunch of money for improvements and then having the rug pulled out from under you.

Our own little place is fun to hunt deer, pigs and the occasional exotic but I still lease a place close to home for dove and another for ducks.

[RiverRat1]

You see these complaints regularly on here. However I own and lease land to hunt. The $3200 I spend on the lease is about a third of what I spent on property improvements last year. I'm over 5K on the property this year. That's after the 60K initial investment. I like having a good lease. I work extra jobs to be sure I can afford it.

Yep. People need to understand the landowner is not making money leasing to deer hunters. He's just losing less.

[ReydonPete]

Yep. People need to understand the landowner is not making money leasing to deer hunters. He's just losing less.

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[Throwin Darts]

Yep. People need to understand the landowner is not making money leasing to deer hunters. He's just losing less.

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[Radar]

I own 145 acres of pasture and woods, all low fence. Most places around me are 40 acres or bigger. I have not been on a lease in 5 years. I would like to get on another lease, but have not found nothing within an hour of me yet.

I dont think any land owner is getting rich off of leasing his place out either.

[Eric Pence]

Our Family hunts (Wife and 2 College kids 18,20) we don't spend 3500-5000 grand for 1 week to lay on the beach because we have a pool and the boys never wanted to go the Disneyland Vacation route so 5000 (Feed Included) to have a mini-Vacation for 10-12 weeks a year is a bargain.
I have been in the lease game since 1987 and compared to other things Hunting has not gone up that much. It all about Priorities and what you like I will still pay 7000-10,000 a year if it gets there before I am gone.