Please read the whole post before responding. I have 1 spot out of 4 open on a +/- 180 acre West Kimble County Axis lease with a little over 1 mile of North Llano River frontage. I know that’s a lot of hunters for the acreage but we’re looking at this as more than just a hunting lease, because it is. Having the river adds a lot of perks. Good swimming and fishing. There are a few strange little things that we’re willing to accept for such a cool place but I’d rather there be no surprises to any potential members. We’ve known the landowner for years but this is our 1st year leasing the property. Please see below.
1. Price is $3500. ½ due now and ½ in August. This includes 2 axis bucks, 2 axis doe, turkey, hogs, dove, varmints and any other exotics. They prefer no whitetail to be shot for now because they feel like the axis have displaced most of them and they want to see more. Full disclosure myself and 1 other guy won’t be paying full price. I want to be upfront about this. We are paying some and not making a profit. We locked the place down and I will be dealing with most of the logistics with the landowner. I manage a larger lease nearby and if I knew what I know now about how much work that is I’d have set that place up the same from the start. If that upsets you I understand but its what it is.
2. There is a very nice camp area along a spring fed live creek covered by huge pecan trees. It has electricity, well, septic, grill and a skinning rack. No cabin so you’d have to bring a camper. I’d prefer someone who has a lease nearby (we’re going to put a spot along that creek) but I know that’s a long shot. You’d mostly have the camp to yourself because we have an established camp 20 minutes away. You’d be responsible for most if not all of the electricity bill since we won’t use the camp much if at all.
3. Guests are family (wife and kids) only and if they hunt they shoot off of your tags. The landowners used to allow people to pay $10 a day to come swim and fish but they have pretty much stopped that completely. She still allows a couple of locals and our group from the other lease to come down to swim. We have a good group of guys that like to bring their kids down swimming. The river is the whole Northern border of the place so most of the acreage is unaffected by this activity.
4. We’re going to set up/move 4 spots that will all be community. There are already 4 feeders and 2 decent rifle blinds on the place. The pens need to be rebuilt because they’re small. They will all be set up for bow hunting. Work and cost of maintaining these areas will be split evenly. We’re just going to sling some corn so anything extra like alfalfa will be on you. I’m sure we will all do a little of that.
5. We have a much larger lease nearby that we manage and keep the pressure low. We are going to do this one a little more casual. We will be enjoying the river and the property year-round but won’t be around the spots when people are hunting. I’d expect you to do the same. We also won’t be up there all of the time (one guy lives out of state) and during deer season we’ll be concentrating more efforts on the other lease.
6. The landowner does allow someone to trap axis on the edge of the property. I heard they got about 6 last year. This shouldn’t affect the hunting too much because those axis move up and down the river all the time. We’ve seen 20+ just about every time we’ve gone out there. They will also shoot a couple a year for meat. I know this can be a dealbreaker for some but we can look past it to have year round access to such a cool little property.
I think that about sums it up. If you’re interested in a Hill Country getaway spot that you can slide in to the blind before or after swimming and or fishing shoot me a message. We drink some beer in the river but I don’t want to deal with drunks. I’ve had enough of that in the past. Please don’t PM me if you need to figure out how to come up with the money, need to talk to the wife 1st or want to change anything we’re trying to do with the place. This won’t be 1st come 1st serve. I want a like minded member looking for the same things we are. Please include some things about yourself in a PM if you’re interested.
Where you live, age, kids or anything else you feel might be important.
1. Price is $3500. ½ due now and ½ in August. This includes 2 axis bucks, 2 axis doe, turkey, hogs, dove, varmints and any other exotics. They prefer no whitetail to be shot for now because they feel like the axis have displaced most of them and they want to see more. Full disclosure myself and 1 other guy won’t be paying full price. I want to be upfront about this. We are paying some and not making a profit. We locked the place down and I will be dealing with most of the logistics with the landowner. I manage a larger lease nearby and if I knew what I know now about how much work that is I’d have set that place up the same from the start. If that upsets you I understand but its what it is.
2. There is a very nice camp area along a spring fed live creek covered by huge pecan trees. It has electricity, well, septic, grill and a skinning rack. No cabin so you’d have to bring a camper. I’d prefer someone who has a lease nearby (we’re going to put a spot along that creek) but I know that’s a long shot. You’d mostly have the camp to yourself because we have an established camp 20 minutes away. You’d be responsible for most if not all of the electricity bill since we won’t use the camp much if at all.
3. Guests are family (wife and kids) only and if they hunt they shoot off of your tags. The landowners used to allow people to pay $10 a day to come swim and fish but they have pretty much stopped that completely. She still allows a couple of locals and our group from the other lease to come down to swim. We have a good group of guys that like to bring their kids down swimming. The river is the whole Northern border of the place so most of the acreage is unaffected by this activity.
4. We’re going to set up/move 4 spots that will all be community. There are already 4 feeders and 2 decent rifle blinds on the place. The pens need to be rebuilt because they’re small. They will all be set up for bow hunting. Work and cost of maintaining these areas will be split evenly. We’re just going to sling some corn so anything extra like alfalfa will be on you. I’m sure we will all do a little of that.
5. We have a much larger lease nearby that we manage and keep the pressure low. We are going to do this one a little more casual. We will be enjoying the river and the property year-round but won’t be around the spots when people are hunting. I’d expect you to do the same. We also won’t be up there all of the time (one guy lives out of state) and during deer season we’ll be concentrating more efforts on the other lease.
6. The landowner does allow someone to trap axis on the edge of the property. I heard they got about 6 last year. This shouldn’t affect the hunting too much because those axis move up and down the river all the time. We’ve seen 20+ just about every time we’ve gone out there. They will also shoot a couple a year for meat. I know this can be a dealbreaker for some but we can look past it to have year round access to such a cool little property.
I think that about sums it up. If you’re interested in a Hill Country getaway spot that you can slide in to the blind before or after swimming and or fishing shoot me a message. We drink some beer in the river but I don’t want to deal with drunks. I’ve had enough of that in the past. Please don’t PM me if you need to figure out how to come up with the money, need to talk to the wife 1st or want to change anything we’re trying to do with the place. This won’t be 1st come 1st serve. I want a like minded member looking for the same things we are. Please include some things about yourself in a PM if you’re interested.
Where you live, age, kids or anything else you feel might be important.
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