looking for land to hunt

[Beau Martin]

I am looking for some land to hunt within at least 11/2 hours from sidney, willing to go as far as 2 hours, Will do work or even a tresspassing fee if need be. email or pm me, please

[Ðe§perado™]

WOW drive two hours...You could be anywhere in the state in two hours. I got some friends with property, I'll get back to you.

[george tinkham]

knock on some doors.people will let you hunt for nothin

[Beau Martin]

hey george i have tryed that but it gets old when you hear 20 different ways of saying no every year after year. They say persitance counts but not for me in shelby county or area.that is why i started to hunt a lot more public land, but even that is getting crowded. So im looking to expand my area of hunting.

[george tinkham]

listen,go tose ohio...you git one farm,which is all you need and many will come to you from the owner of that farm...just find a country road and go...another thing is talk about it to emplyees in walmart sporting or gun shops or restraunts,etc....many people hunt and might just give you a good lead to a relative or freind...you gotta try and like i say ,just one farm is all you need and i have not seen a deerless farm yet even near cities and towns in se ohio an you always got nat. for. nearby too thats as good huntin as any of the farms

[ShoreBoundOne]

Try looking into COOP Hunting land. I did but i didnt find out about the program until late in the season. I was amazed at the amount of private land real close to me that will allow hunting. PM me for more info.

Mitch

[10Gauge]

We started a hunt club a couple of years ago because we found land owners especially in the SE and SW parts of Ohio were not allowing people to hunt like they used to. Always the same story, family already hunts, already have too many hunters, etc. but when he started talking to them about leasing their land to our club and giving us exclusive rights they had a different tune! Like the first guy I ever worked for always said "Money Talks" and it's true.

Our club has 10 active members and most of us have kids who hunt as well, this puts our group in the 25 to 30 hunters range. Of course all of us don't hunt all the time and most of our members only deer hunt (gun) so for guys like me who bow hunt, turkey hunt, varmint hunt, waterflowl hunt, etc. it's a great deal! Our members pay anywhere from $250 to $500 for a membership depending on the amount of land we have available and their membership status (guys who only gun hunt 1 week per year pay less than guys like myself).

Landowners aren't getting rich doing this but when you offer a guy $500 for exclusive hunting rights it sure opens some doors and split between 10 guys that's only $50 each! We have several farm leases now customize each one to the farmers needs. If he has family members who still want to deer hunt on opening day we will accomidate that and put it into the lease.

[george tinkham]

the rule in texas was 1 hunter per 100 acres...any more than that was concidered too many...my rule is 1 hunter per 1000 acres min. if you want biggies(bucks)

[Aimrite]

Good Luck, I have been regulated to public land myself and wont be bow hunting very much anymore. Cherish your free private land because you are few $$$$ away from losing it.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Hay ShoreBoundOne contacted the division on that coop program and got my listing for land in my area,Guess what i have called and stopped by about 20 of these property and guess what not a one would allow any more hunters on there land,Was told all ready have to many hunters,not allowing hunting anymore,And was told well i let some guys in last year and they brought every buddy and there buddies now i am letting two guys in and that it,i'm talking 1147 acres on this one property these two lucky guys have it made.but i'm still looking still have some moreo nthe list to contacted.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

I hate to say it and i hope it never happens but i looks like this leasing crap is taking ahold in Ohio so if you are wanting a good piece of land to hunt you might want to lock up some piece of property by leasing or you just never know you private property that you think you have locked up will either be sold under you or you will be told no more hunting,or it will turn into a private but public land were every brother and his brother will be hunting.You will be best to buy you a good piece of property if your fundinf allow you to but i know how that is.Goos luck in all your searches.

[george tinkham]

right now i have too many farms to hunt.i do not pay now or will i be ever in that predicument and i am talkin premo. huntin too.

[ShoreBoundOne]

Carabou,
I would report back to the DNR and have those folks removed from the list.

Mitch

[george tinkham]

columbus dispatch has a very good article on we as hunters should be very interested in...opening up wetlands for those money grubber developers...

[10Gauge]

I tried the coop deal several years ago, went to the local DNR section got a list of farmers with deer crop damage and started knocking on doors. After 50plus "No I don't allow hunting on my land" responses I found one property owner who said sure you can hunt. He also told me I was the 1st person to ask permission and assured me if I was bowhunting I'd be the only person on the 200 plus acres. I scouted it in August put up a tree stand and waited for opening day. First Saturday in October I was headed for his farm and when I pulled into the edge of the hay field 11 other trucks were parked next to the barn! This wouldn't normally be too bad on 200 plus acres but there was less than 10 acres of good fence row and wooded area to hunt. Most of it was crop fields. Needless to say I didn't hunt that day but went back on Monday to retrieve my stand.

I've been hunting since I was old enough to walk and asking permission to hunt since I was old enough to talk! Until just recently (2 years) I've mostly hunted public land because landowners are not allowing deer hunting most of those I've approached say they have family who hunts or have already got too many people hunting. Funny thing is these farms usually don't get any bow hunting and one day of gun hunting is the norm! I travel all over the country and hear the same thing in other states too so for you guys who say it's easy to find land to hunt deer on your the lucky ones! For the most part farmers are willing to let you hunt ground hogs, sometimes doves but thet get weird on ya when you start talking deer hunting and this happens from W.VA. to IN. all over southern Ohio.

That's why we started a hunt club and are leasing land to hunt on from the coal companies and timber companies as well as private land owners. Personally, I think it's developers & "Land Companies" screwing up the hunting by purchasing large farms or large tracts and subdividing them into 10-20 acre and sometimes 5 acre lots and calling them "recreational property" give me a break! These same developers are suckering "hunters" into buying these properties because they are bordered by "state land" but along comes a hunt club who leases the hunting rights to the so called "state land" that was really owned by a timber company! Now the suckered "hunters/recreation land owners" are mad at the hunt club for leasing all the land in their backyard.

My advice to anyone having problems finding a place to hunt or dis-satisfied with public hunting lands is to lease, lease, lease, lease it's been going on for a hundred years in states like Georgia and it works! Besides it's only a matter of time before the timber and coal companies own the entire state of Ohio.

10gauge

[shrivl]

I am in club that leases land here in GA. The price is reasonable, $350 a year and there are 15 of us on 600 acres. I hunt the weekends and except for opening day of gun season there is usually only 4 of us hunting. Its nice in that we plant food plots and know who is hunting and don't have to worry about asking permission. The bad thing is the land is still subject to timbering and down here they do it about every 10 to 12 years (pine grows fast).