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Lease prices

Went and looked at a property to possibly lease yesterday, its 130 acres about half woods and one big field the owner cuts hay off. He has no idea what to tell me as far as a price goes and I dont want to insult him. He did throw out a number of 2500 which I though was a little steep. Its in deer lodge and he also requested no hunting on sunday. What kinda price would you be willing to pay. Its nice flat land.
Well, you know, sunday is the only day deer show up right? :)
 
We paid $14/ac for prime pine plantation in SW AL in the blackbelt (high deer density) about 10 min to town. We thought we were being raped.
Shoooot
How long ago was that ? Around here the lease prices have sky rocketed up into the mid $20/acre. Like stated before the rich folks are driving the good ol boys out of the game . I sure am glad to my little slice 80 acres 🙏
I can't step foot off my place . It's all leased and they ain't lettin go either 😡
 
Went and looked at a property to possibly lease yesterday, its 130 acres about half woods and one big field the owner cuts hay off. He has no idea what to tell me as far as a price goes and I dont want to insult him. He did throw out a number of 2500 which I though was a little steep. Its in deer lodge and he also requested no hunting on sunday. What kinda price would you be willing to pay. Its nice flat land.
I think its done per acre. if true, his price is cheap for 130 acres lol
 
I got you beat !!!! $13 for my 80 acres!!!
Disabled in Alabama
Dang. Wish mine was that cheap. Mine's still not bad just not that cheap. It's $250 or so for 87 acres. Bought an acre that joins it last year and it's $32 a year I think. Where I live at my property splits 2 counties. $62 for 13 acres of woods that's in a different county then my houses and other 13 acres.
 
I'll start the bidding at $50/acre. #sfmafia
The price of admission is standing still while my wife kicks you in the nuts for wanting to kill her "sweet handsome boy"... oh, and bring a sixer of Miller Lite so I can catch a buzz while I watch the live SeekOne episode from my bedroom window
 
Shoooot
How long ago was that ? Around here the lease prices have sky rocketed up into the mid $20/acre. Like stated before the rich folks are driving the good ol boys out of the game . I sure am glad to my little slice 80 acres 🙏
I can't step foot off my place . It's all leased and they ain't lettin go either 😡

And they're all going to keep skyrocketing as long as people keep paying it. Not to be argumentative, but I have to ask the question - is continuing to pay for private land hunting access good or bad for the future of accessible hunting? We've all seen public land access disappear in certain areas and not too long ago most of Yanahli was in danger of this.

As states do inevitably lose some amount of access to public hunting land for various reasons, now private land will be less accessible because it's either leased up or too expensive for many who would like to lease it.

Not even that long ago most of these leased up tracts could be accessed by a handshake, polite conversation, and maybe offering to put in a bit of sweat equity for permission. Now it's all about writing checks and those checks aren't getting smaller.

For the price some people pay to lease land to hunt I would rather spend that on buying an entire processed cow from a local farmer and just go fishing more. Just my opinion. I worry the next generation won't have much left to hunt. Either a dwindling amount of public land or lease prices out of reach for most.
 
And they're all going to keep skyrocketing as long as people keep paying it. Not to be argumentative, but I have to ask the question - is continuing to pay for private land hunting access good or bad for the future of accessible hunting?
Is it good for hunting? No. But it is reality in a capitalist system. You have something people desperately want, then they have to pay for it. As I landowner, if I didn't hunt my land, would I lease it? You bet, and I would charge whatever people would pay.
 
. . . . and I would charge whatever people would pay.
It's the law of supply & demand.
That said, those "willing" (and able) to pay for expensive private land leases
appear to be dying out faster than they can be replaced (by younger hunters).

The older hunters with the money are currently "carrying the weight" of the younger (and much less avid) hunters. As we older ones die out, many of the replacing younger hunters are more into just "meat" hunting than "trophy" buck hunting. They can get what they want from hunting without ever needing to lease anything.

This will make more private lands available at more reasonable prices in the future, for those more avid hunters?

The dynamics are constantly shifting, and in some areas, lease prices will keep going up, while they go down in others. One real "wild card" in Tennessee in particular is the spread of CWD and just how TWRA reacts to it. Another "wild card" is the economy in general.

In the meantime, many TN hunters are weighing the merits of non-resident hunting in other states where most public lands offer greater opportunities at 150-plus-class bucks than even the really good private land leases in TN. This further reduces the demand (and price potential) for private land leases in TN.

Add to this, many avid deer hunters are finding out, rather than spend high amounts of money on leasing deer hunting land in TN, there are are other things besides deer to hunt. Why not apply your former lease money to a caribou or moose hunt in Alaska?
 
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