It kind of shocks me as well, but its their money.......usually those high dollar leases also include a cabin/house, barn, satellite tv, power/water, maybe a buggy, etc, etc...
I don't know how they do it either . But if I had the money I would be in like flies on chit on those leases . Citislicker the leases down here ain't poor believe me . Lot's of 120 and 130 inch bucks on them . But you ain't gonna see them pics on forums . I can't complain with my WMA stat's and nowhere 8-10K a year to hunt .
Yeah, I always hear about all these 120 class bucks, and bigger on these leases down south. I just don't buy all the crap. Most guys where ever they hunt will post a pic, or 2 of a quailty kill. There is no need to tell people where they killed it. All I know is I pay $ 26.50 for my stamp, and put in for a few special op hunts every year. I have put 5 bucks on the Florida registry since 1998. Only 1 was from a Spec. op hunt. The other 4 have come from a regular old quota hunt areas. If you ask me many quota hunts are better than the majority of leases in this state due to the lack of hunting days allowed. A lot of the guys paying the big jack for these places just have to much money burning a hole in there pocket, and probably do not have the skill to play the WMA game, or leases the up here in north central where there are far more members per acre. They just want to increase there odds by buying the poor hunter out, or pricing them out of these leases.
Oh yeah you are coming along nicely on those south Florida WMAs. I have never been down there for a deer hunt. Driving around spotting, and stalking is just not my thing. I am a swamp hunter by heart, and like a little cool weather when I am in the woods. Plus as far as the lease goes I get my bucks every year, and at 8k I just saved $7973.50 thats alot of beer, bourbon, and bushel of oysters for the grill.
It kind of shocks me as well, but its their money.......usually those high dollar leases also include a cabin/house, barn, satellite tv, power/water, maybe a buggy, etc, etc...
Not sure about S Florida but one of the guys at my new office is a President of a hunting/club lease on one of the Mormon tracts. Its like a small city down there and they are taking some large deer off the place but it is $8k/year. They like the convenience of being 30 minutes away, all the lease work is contracted out and they make more than enough to pay for the privilege.
It kind of shocks me as well, but its their money.......usually those high dollar leases also include a cabin/house, barn, satellite tv, power/water, maybe a buggy, etc, etc...
Not sure about S Florida but one of the guys at my new office is a President of a hunting/club lease on one of the Mormon tracts. Its like a small city down there and they are taking some large deer off the place but it is $8k/year. They like the convenience of being 30 minutes away, all the lease work is contracted out and they make more than enough to pay for the privilege.
The portion of the mormon lease I was invited to join back in 2007 was exactly like that, around $8K a year but you had to buy out the last guys cabin/trailer/house on the property and it had about another $3-4K a year in upkeep expenses, seed, fertilizer, stand maintenance, etc. You could literally live there year around it was so nice. I was out there 3-4 times. It's nice but damm, $1K a month.... I have a friend on there and he paid $5K for the trailer/cabin w/porch from the guy he was replacing and then dropped another $3K fixing it back up before he paid his first $12K a year. All high platform enclosed shooting houses over foodplots and feeders. Some huge deer.
