Check out http://www.huntinglease.com/ . Also consider leasing to outfitters only. They should then be able to control they hunters without your direct involvement.
Jack
Jack
Risks & rewards from allowing hunters on property
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Check out http://www.huntinglease.com/ . Also consider leasing to outfitters only. They should then be able to control they hunters without your direct involvement.
Jack
Jack
Unclebuck257
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Happy,
How many acres do you have to lease? That will make a difference too. I've done it both ways, been the leasor and the leasee. It all boils down to the quality of people you lease it to. Like all things, some people are responsible and some aren't and honestly, money is NOT the divider between the two. Sometimes the more money they have, the bigger aces they are!! Guys who ordinarilly couldn't get a place to hunt like yours, where yours is, will usually protect it and guard it better than many others. Let them know that you want them to post it for you after you do the deal, and make it a one year deal to begin with to see if it fits good for all concerned. Yeah, I'm for the average guy getting to lease it for a lot of reasons! My experience has taught me that.
How many acres do you have to lease? That will make a difference too. I've done it both ways, been the leasor and the leasee. It all boils down to the quality of people you lease it to. Like all things, some people are responsible and some aren't and honestly, money is NOT the divider between the two. Sometimes the more money they have, the bigger aces they are!! Guys who ordinarilly couldn't get a place to hunt like yours, where yours is, will usually protect it and guard it better than many others. Let them know that you want them to post it for you after you do the deal, and make it a one year deal to begin with to see if it fits good for all concerned. Yeah, I'm for the average guy getting to lease it for a lot of reasons! My experience has taught me that.
Unclebuck257
Platinum Member
Happy,
How many acres do you have to lease? That will make a difference too. I've done it both ways, been the leasor and the leasee. It all boils down to the quality of people you lease it to. Like all things, some people are responsible and some aren't and honestly, money is NOT the divider between the two. Sometimes the more money they have, the bigger aces they are!! Guys who ordinarilly couldn't get a place to hunt like yours, where yours is, will usually protect it and guard it better than many others. Let them know that you want them to post it for you after you do the deal, and make it a one year deal to begin with to see if it fits good for all concerned. Yeah, I'm for the average guy getting to lease it for a lot of reasons! My experience has taught me that.
How many acres do you have to lease? That will make a difference too. I've done it both ways, been the leasor and the leasee. It all boils down to the quality of people you lease it to. Like all things, some people are responsible and some aren't and honestly, money is NOT the divider between the two. Sometimes the more money they have, the bigger aces they are!! Guys who ordinarilly couldn't get a place to hunt like yours, where yours is, will usually protect it and guard it better than many others. Let them know that you want them to post it for you after you do the deal, and make it a one year deal to begin with to see if it fits good for all concerned. Yeah, I'm for the average guy getting to lease it for a lot of reasons! My experience has taught me that.
stevenf
Platinum Member
HappyCPE, I looked up your acreage if the 13.4 acres you list on your member page is the size your right one hunter with a bow should be fine but you better talk to your neighbors before you let a hunter on your place because even if they shoot it square in the middle of your place there is an excellent chance almost a certainty that at some point they'll have to encroach on your neighbors to retrieve their deer and even put another arrow in it. We do commercially lease our ranch to a group of 5 hunters the ranch is 347 acres in Southcentral Texas. In Texas unlike the East coast hunting leases are big business, I made more money last year on hunters then I did at our print shop, course I spent more time and money working on hunting improvements like planting food plots then I spent at the print shop to albeit a lot more fun can be had in a tractor seat then in an office chair. There are numerous web sites that have sample leases and such its a good idea to have a very well spelled out lease contract and a release of liability signed by all parties if your collecting money its a whole different set of rules that effect you then if you let your buddies hunt for free. Our lease contract contains all the do's and dont's, allotments per paid hunter etc and our release of liability waves essentially all their rights to sue including gross negligence since one guys predug holes for fence post are another guys leg breaker and gross negligence law suit.
Steve
Steve
stevenf
Platinum Member
HappyCPE, I looked up your acreage if the 13.4 acres you list on your member page is the size your right one hunter with a bow should be fine but you better talk to your neighbors before you let a hunter on your place because even if they shoot it square in the middle of your place there is an excellent chance almost a certainty that at some point they'll have to encroach on your neighbors to retrieve their deer and even put another arrow in it. We do commercially lease our ranch to a group of 5 hunters the ranch is 347 acres in Southcentral Texas. In Texas unlike the East coast hunting leases are big business, I made more money last year on hunters then I did at our print shop, course I spent more time and money working on hunting improvements like planting food plots then I spent at the print shop to albeit a lot more fun can be had in a tractor seat then in an office chair. There are numerous web sites that have sample leases and such its a good idea to have a very well spelled out lease contract and a release of liability signed by all parties if your collecting money its a whole different set of rules that effect you then if you let your buddies hunt for free. Our lease contract contains all the do's and dont's, allotments per paid hunter etc and our release of liability waves essentially all their rights to sue including gross negligence since one guys predug holes for fence post are another guys leg breaker and gross negligence law suit.
Steve
Steve
Steve, I'm going to show my ignorance here - with a bow and arrow isn't the point to get a kill right away? The adjacent properties are posted and there isn't going to be any chasing of half-impaled deer. There is really only one corner of the property that the deer spend the night in. I am adjoining about 1 square mile of privately owned, unpopulated land. Very rare in NJ.
Y'know, I'm going to have to get out more. I can't hardly imagine the spaces that you and some other folks are dealing with. I've seen some pictures of some "spreads" and the scale is awesome. Not that my little patch is ugly, it isn't like the stereotype NJ or on the opening credits of the Sopranos, but I'm afraid if I see the rest of the USA I won't want to come back.
[sorry for the digression]
Thanks for your help.
Y'know, I'm going to have to get out more. I can't hardly imagine the spaces that you and some other folks are dealing with. I've seen some pictures of some "spreads" and the scale is awesome. Not that my little patch is ugly, it isn't like the stereotype NJ or on the opening credits of the Sopranos, but I'm afraid if I see the rest of the USA I won't want to come back.
[sorry for the digression]
Thanks for your help.
Steve, I'm going to show my ignorance here - with a bow and arrow isn't the point to get a kill right away? The adjacent properties are posted and there isn't going to be any chasing of half-impaled deer. There is really only one corner of the property that the deer spend the night in. I am adjoining about 1 square mile of privately owned, unpopulated land. Very rare in NJ.
Y'know, I'm going to have to get out more. I can't hardly imagine the spaces that you and some other folks are dealing with. I've seen some pictures of some "spreads" and the scale is awesome. Not that my little patch is ugly, it isn't like the stereotype NJ or on the opening credits of the Sopranos, but I'm afraid if I see the rest of the USA I won't want to come back.
[sorry for the digression]
Thanks for your help.
Y'know, I'm going to have to get out more. I can't hardly imagine the spaces that you and some other folks are dealing with. I've seen some pictures of some "spreads" and the scale is awesome. Not that my little patch is ugly, it isn't like the stereotype NJ or on the opening credits of the Sopranos, but I'm afraid if I see the rest of the USA I won't want to come back.
[sorry for the digression]
Thanks for your help.