Beer cans laying outside the blinds, all kinds of debris, he finally had enough. Guy had kicked his previous hunters off due to them being trashy. I leased a small place outside of Bandera about 7 years ago. Re: Who's Going To Be Looking For A Lease Next Year I plan to stay on this lease until I can no longer hunt or they decide to go a different direction. I go out west every year hunting as well and the hunting budget is only so big. I know I could find a lease either closer to the metroplex or where I would have a better chance of killing a big deer every year but it would be a lot more money. I basically try to stay invisible during the season and for the most part the only interaction I have with them is when I pay my lease dues each May. I have never asked why they allowed me to stay on but I have to believe it is because I treat the place as if it was my own and do not kill every buck I see. I pay way below market average and they have never raised their price on me so I know they would make way more money from the outfitter than they do from me. The father and son landowners own many acres up that way and used to have multiple lease hunters but have since signed up with an outfitter for all of their spots except the 150 acres I am on. I feel very fortunate to be starting my 12th year leasing a small pasture (150 acres) from a landowner in the southeast corner of the panhandle. Many lament the loss of a lease, while at the same time others ( friends of the landowners, guests, family, etc,) will now have an opportunity to hunt now that the leasing of hunting rights are over.Īgain, there is two sides to the landowner/leasing coin. Some landowners are absentee or not interested in hunting but as places sell to end users this tends to change. It was a lot more fun when we didn’t have lease hunters, as having hunters on our property meant we couldn’t hunt ourselves. Some will lease out in the future as cost of ownership increases or sometimes out of a desire to give back, but usually it’s on a limited basis thru outfitted package hunts.īeen on both sides of the leasing coin, have leased land for hunting and we leased our land for hunting. As properties change hands, new owners in most instances don’t need this income to own the property. Landowners were leasing land in many cases out of necessity, not out of goodwill. The traditional season lease was in many ways structured so a leasee could enjoy benefits of ownership at a fraction of the cost to purchase the land, but had no vested interest. Were they out there all the time, Brown it's down, acting as if they owned the place, what? Weekend hunters from the Metroplex ruined it for them.

Hardly any of the other landowners here lease hunting rights anymore.

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