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Post by huhwhatdeer on Oct 5, 2017 0:12:33 GMT -5
about 80 acres partially woods 20 acres and the rest is hay field. 11/2 drive. asked permission from an older lady and visit her everytime. always has tea and snacks. surrounded by hnf
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Post by chewbacca on Oct 5, 2017 7:36:29 GMT -5
To get back on topic...I hunt 280 acres, 75 which are wooded. My former hunting buddies family owns the ground I hunt. I believe this will be the 20th season I've hunted it. My hunting buddy lost his battle with cancer almost nine years ago. After he died, his wife and family gave all hunting rights to me. I also did some door knocking on the neighboring properties to lock them up once I knew they weren't being hunted. I just used the owners of my main property as references and it was a done deal. The most helpful thing I've found at getting permission is to have a reference list.
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Post by 76chevy on Oct 5, 2017 8:35:57 GMT -5
Permission: 138 ac. about 25 acres of woods 25 ac. 100% wooded 45 acres, about 90% wooded 80 Acres, about 10% wooded 80 acres 117 acres
thousands of acres of public property!
working to pay off my home, then buy my own land
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Post by 76chevy on Oct 5, 2017 9:05:10 GMT -5
I lease 140 acres that is 40 minutes from the house. It still bothers me that I had to resort to leasing, but it was either that or give it up. I have enjoyed and benefited from hunting public land for over 25 years. However, I just can't handle driving 90 minutes to find two other hunters within 100 yards of my stand. That happened last year on opening morning of firearms season. Don't let it bother you. You do what you have to do. I find it amazing the biggest leasing site in indiana charges $200 to even VIEW the leases a week before the public and most seem to lease before the general public (like me) even see them available. Tells me demand is HIGH and supply is low
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Post by throbak on Oct 5, 2017 9:16:37 GMT -5
I own 125 acres , Paid for by working my A off and staying focused on my goal having a farm bought and paid for by the day I retired I retired in 99 and goal was reached NO inheritance nothing but my labor
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Post by squirrelhunter on Oct 5, 2017 11:02:12 GMT -5
It's about 80 acres but only 15-20 acres is wooded. It belongs to my next door neighbor I've known my whole life. It's only 2 miles south of me. Also have permission for the field and ditch right behind the house that he use to own but when he sold it and then a year later that guy sold it,I asked the new owners for permission which they gave me. There's really not many deer back here but whenever my neighbor dies (he's almost 79 years old) and I loose the woods,it would be better than nothing I guess. Mainly hunt it for coyotes now though.
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Post by laughery11 on Oct 6, 2017 18:50:23 GMT -5
My family has 72 acres in Dearborn County that I only get to hunt one or two weeks a year. This year I am hunting a 1400 acre lease in SC. I get to hunt it in exchange for managing the property not quite free but well worth the hard work.
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Post by popcornridgevevay on Oct 6, 2017 19:21:37 GMT -5
I own 46 acres in Switzerland county. I bought it three years ago from the family who had owned for 70 years. We have hunted the property for over 20 years and had a good relationship with the former owner. Best hunting spot ever since we put food plots out (corn, turnips and oats) the deer are all my beans before they could get s foot high.
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Post by htownhunter on Oct 8, 2017 8:29:29 GMT -5
My wife and I just bought our 1st house that sits on just over 19 acres. It's an old farm house that sits right on the road. I'm guessing that we have about 10 acres of woods and about 5 acres of field that is grass and blackberries. I'm very blessed in what we have and thank God for it.
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Post by thebellcompany on Oct 8, 2017 15:41:37 GMT -5
My wife and I just bought our 1st house that sits on just over 19 acres. It's an old farm house that sits right on the road. I'm guessing that we have about 10 acres of woods and about 5 acres of field that is grass and blackberries. I'm very blessed in what we have and thank God for it. Congrats. That’s my dream some day. Same scenario
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Post by foamyflyer on Oct 10, 2017 9:42:26 GMT -5
I have access to a portion (40-50 acres) of private land during weekends of firearms season only 10 minutes from home. Nearest public land is 1 hour away. Thankful for what I have! Just got permission to hunt the 40 acres (23 acres of bottom land) I have hunted the last several years. Owner is not planning on hunting it at all.
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Post by jackryan on Oct 23, 2017 14:51:59 GMT -5
Note: A house is considered a house and a blind is considered a blind. A blind is not a house and a house is not a blind. I believe that in at least one Law Enforcement Officials opinion that is not accurate. It was posted elsewhere on this site that a CO was asked and responded that if you were hunting from your house you needed the orange on it. If I sit in that do I need an orange flag on top or just my orange hat on?
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Post by subzero350 on Oct 23, 2017 15:07:39 GMT -5
5 acres of swap and woods my dad has owned for 40 years in Steuben Co. 7.5 acres of fields and woods on land I just bought with my "new" house in DeKalb Co. Taking my time working the new neighbors for permission to hunt their woods and fields. So far I've been granted permission to retrieve any deer that I shoot on my property that fall onto theirs. 22 acres of woods and fields by permission from family friend in Huntington Co. Working on getting permission from another family friend to hunt 30 acres of fields/woods near Fremont (Steuben Co.) I too used to hunt public land, but got tired of other hunters walking right past me during legal hunting hours.
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Post by firstwd on Oct 23, 2017 17:52:45 GMT -5
I believe that in at least one Law Enforcement Officials opinion that is not accurate. It was posted elsewhere on this site that a CO was asked and responded that if you were hunting from your house you needed the orange on it. If I sit in that do I need an orange flag on top or just my orange hat on? Depends on what you cover it with and it that covering conceals your orange hat from one or more direction.
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Post by swilk on Oct 23, 2017 18:56:05 GMT -5
I see rope... man-made. Crappy blind as is though...deer will probably see you.
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Post by gumbootbill on Oct 23, 2017 19:26:57 GMT -5
300 acres family farm.
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Post by jackryan on Oct 23, 2017 22:51:57 GMT -5
If I sit in that do I need an orange flag on top or just my orange hat on? Depends on what you cover it with and it that covering conceals your orange hat from one or more direction. I been kind of playing around with it few days again now after just saving the poles about a year. I'm thinking about double the number of poles, then weave in some grape vines in and out around the poles working my way up a little. Just that right there seemed like a huge job trying to do it by my self but then with an extra guy it was about 10 minute effort max to get those poles up like that. I'd bet you could set half those poles 6" in the ground and then work in the vines and that would make a decent blind for 2 or 3 years at least.
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Post by esshup on Oct 23, 2017 23:30:48 GMT -5
I bought 10 acres with the house that I'm living in, and I can also hunt a few clients properties. One that is 80 acres and another that is only 1/2 acre but is in an urban zone.
I trade some of my services for the opportunity to hunt the properties. Nothing in life is free.......
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Post by beermaker on Oct 24, 2017 4:59:43 GMT -5
Those of you that have "family" land to hunt should be thankful and feel fortunate. If not for shady dealings by uncles on both sides of my family, I would have well over 200 (combines) acres to hunt. Losing the land p@#$%s me off way more than the fact that no one but said uncles know where the money went.
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Post by featherduster on Oct 24, 2017 5:35:36 GMT -5
Unless you own your hunting property your never guaranteed anything when it comes to permission. There were 4 times in my life that I thought I would be hunting a certain property forever only to loose them all. If hunting is in your genes then I can't stress to you enough start now finding and securing a good piece of property.
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