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.
Not my cup of tea. I enjoy the sweat and fruits of my labor. Just need a young whipper snapper to help
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.
Not my cup of tea. I enjoy the sweat and fruits of my labor. Just need a young whipper snapper to help
I am right there with ya. Hunt camp is about the only place I get an opportunity to work with my hands anymore. Being tied to a desk 5 days a week, I look forward to the drive up to camp and working on the place ourselves.
Reading this part of our forum has stirred up a few old memories I would like to share. Our 1st child was delivered by a doctor who was on one of the Mormon leases. He was paying around $5000 back in 1973. Contrast that with the lease I was on, only 5 miles from the house on the east side of Orlando, for $300. But it sure wasn't the Mormon ranch! Used to ride the Nova Road and Hiway 192 just to see the herds of deer in the late afternoon. Finally found out why there were buckets of paint spilled on the road ever so often! Also found out why some of our "friends" had kill switches on their brake light circuits and had red lenses on their truck's hand-held lights. Also knew of a "bounty" that was placed on a young man who was a professional meat hunter back in the day. That's a whole 'nother story. Would love to have hunted one of those units but it was and still is way out of my league. But to the folks that are able to hunt there "more power to you". All goes back to why some of us drive Fords or Chevvys and other drive Linclons or Cadillacs.
Treefarmer
I've cut back the last couple years to about 10 trips to my lease a year but also hit some wma's in Florida to make up for it. I spend somewhere between $350 and $400 in fuel each trip to the lease. Add about $40 in tolls each trip. Add in $300 for a Ga. hunting license. Add in another $1200 per year for the lease payment. Another $200 for the camp payment. Now add 17-18 hrs drive time at 80 mph each trip. How much is that time worth? I've long contemplated getting on a lease down south but my buddies can't spend that kind of money otherwise I'd have done it a long time ago. The money some people spend on a lease is all relative to their income and desire to be close to home. $8000 to them could be the same as $1000 to someone else. I can completely understand spending $8000 per year and wish my buddies could spend that much. Now that I've read this I'm getting depressed. :censored
I could not nor would I pay that much for a lease.Although I would pay 1-2k on leases and burn 3k on gas and dogs to possiblt kill a few scrap rack bucks. Rational, huh..
