Camp and/or Lease Expenses

[LampLighter]

What is your yearly cost to have a deer camp and a place to hunt ? NOT everyday expenses, such as gasoline, food, equip. etc. , BUT do include lease fees, electric bills, hunting club dues, etc.


Me- $500 to keep camp on farmer's land

average $ 200 electric bill

that's about it. I need to do like Altjaeger and buy me an acre up there. I bet property taxes is less than $500/yr ?

[Bob S]

My property is paid for.

No utilities, other than a little propane, less than $80 a year.

Taxes, winter $720 and summer $311.

[LampLighter]

Quality Deer Management, the future of deer hunting.


Respectfully, that quote is a crying shame.

[Sabre]

Respectfully, that quote is a crying shame.

I'm right with ya there ! These days I do all of my deer hunting right out my back door, on state forest land and on my neighbors land. No lease fee's, trespass fee's, taxes or gas expense at all. Just grab the rifle and walk out the door.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

Electricity $1400/yr
Property tax $4000
Lease payment $7200 (yes we lease our own land from ourselves)

So much for free meat.

Alan

[LampLighter]

Lease from ourselves


That is A tactic usually deployed in a corporation or S corporation.

It is also the way wifey and I moved up in life. Way back when she was 18 and me not to far above that :D we had a note that we had to pay regardless every month. It was called "us." We set a goal and steady worked toward it. I don't know if that is the reason yall lease from yourselves ?

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

It's not but it should be.

Alan

[purple heart]

I hunt on about 300 acres of private posted property. I have a tag-a-long
camper that I leave there year round. I also keep my atv there, spring through
hunting season. The land owner is a very good friend and doesn't charge me
anything. I also have a key to their house and can use the facilities if needed
when they are not there.
I've been hunting there for about 25 years, and was hunting the neighbors
ajoining property for about 10 years before that. Hunting the area is almost like
going to a second home.:)

[LampLighter]

Purple Heart

Those are the kind of places that, once you lose them, you are never comfortable hunting anywhere else. Many usually quit when they lose a place like that. We had a free place in Ms but I was too young and hadn't been there long enough to get attached. My dad and his firemen friends ( all fire dept. people) pretty much quit hunting when the place sold. The new owner's kicked us out and had their own people.

Really, I heard later that the place may not have sold. It got out of control. Too many friends of friends, we didn't even know each other toward the end. One dude kept riding up on me on his atv while I was bowhunting. He would make Indian war noises and take that last swig of Budweiser, then throw the can on the property. There was a trail of Budweiser cans everywhere. I gues we did get booted. Good suffer for the bad.

[Sabre]

LampLighter;6798]Purple Heart

Those are the kind of places that, once you lose them, you are never comfortable hunting anywhere else. Many usually quit when they lose a place like that.

I've lost several places like that over the years. The dedicated don't quit and can always find new places to hunt.

[LampLighter]

The dedicated yes that is the key. Most people around here ( NOT ME) are recreational hunters. The comaradrie and traditions are what are important to them. They all hunt the same. Box stands, food plots, etc.
THESE are the type people who give up because "the old place" just had too many memories and it wouldn't be the same anywhere else.

Now people like me, who are loners in the woods anyway, hunt sign and move with the sign, try to think like deer, etc. No it wouldn't phase me too much. I assume you are like this too Sabre.

Just two types of people who seek deer. Recreational vs. Serious