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Tn...A Trophy Destination State?
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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 4233134" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>You guys just need to keep in mind the "law of supply & demand" works with just about everything.</p><p></p><p>I suspect KY lease prices are now generally on a downward trend (although some will go higher); same in TN, although in TN may be more a case of plateauing out and just being kinda "stable".</p><p></p><p>Now I'm talking deer, not waterfowl, not turkey.</p><p>The "supply" side is generally much less with waterfowl, and great turkey woods may be less in supply than great deer lands.</p><p></p><p>Even if the number of hunters were not shrinking, the average hunter seems to be hunting progressively less, and less willing to pay high lease prices. For many hunters, pursuing a top-end buck was a bit of a fad or a stage in their life. Many will then hunt less, fish more, or hunt more other things while deer hunting less.</p><p></p><p>If you want to see deer lease prices in TN go out the roof, just go back to the 11-buck limit and watch half of Pennsylvania move to Tennessee for the virtually "unlimited" deer hunting (not to mention, a diverse world-class freshwater fishery).</p><p></p><p>But you need not worry about hunters in surrounding states viewing TN as a "trophy" destination over several of the states bordering TN. And if someone is going to travel to another state, many will just go where the odds are dramatically better for a top-end buck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 4233134, member: 1409"] You guys just need to keep in mind the "law of supply & demand" works with just about everything. I suspect KY lease prices are now generally on a downward trend (although some will go higher); same in TN, although in TN may be more a case of plateauing out and just being kinda "stable". Now I'm talking deer, not waterfowl, not turkey. The "supply" side is generally much less with waterfowl, and great turkey woods may be less in supply than great deer lands. Even if the number of hunters were not shrinking, the average hunter seems to be hunting progressively less, and less willing to pay high lease prices. For many hunters, pursuing a top-end buck was a bit of a fad or a stage in their life. Many will then hunt less, fish more, or hunt more other things while deer hunting less. If you want to see deer lease prices in TN go out the roof, just go back to the 11-buck limit and watch half of Pennsylvania move to Tennessee for the virtually "unlimited" deer hunting (not to mention, a diverse world-class freshwater fishery). But you need not worry about hunters in surrounding states viewing TN as a "trophy" destination over several of the states bordering TN. And if someone is going to travel to another state, many will just go where the odds are dramatically better for a top-end buck. [/QUOTE]
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