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<blockquote data-quote="baldhunter" data-source="post: 2564944" data-attributes="member: 11853"><p>I think deer hunting in Texas has gone a bit too expensive.I guess it really depends on how much you want to pay for recreation.Years ago I was on a lease with my family and friends.We paid a $150 each for a year round lease on 750acres,6 hunters.It was a fun get away.It had a nice 7acre lake so it fun to just go camping and fishing in the off season.It had a lot of deer on the place but they were small bodied and small racked.We lost that lease because the owners decided to high fence all their property and do game management with protein feeding to grow bigger bucks.We leased several other properties after that.None were as good and the areas were way over hunted for the amount of acres per hunter.After that I just started hunting does and cull bucks on managed lands.I got to hunt on some great hunting ranches,killed more deer and had a lot of fun for a lot less money than what a lease would have cost me.I got a part-time job as a guide on one of the ranches I was hunting on.That was fun,I got to guide for a bunch of kids killing their first deer which is a real rewarding thing and I made enough that paid for my hunting expenses too.I had to give that up the last few years because my wife has been ill and I have to stay close to home these days because I have to take care of her.I was lucky to find a ranch near by that has exotics,mainly red deer.It's a 1000 acres of brushy land and we hunt from blinds just like deer hunting.I can shoot a cull red stag for less than what it would cost me to shoot a 100" whitetail buck and take home bigger antlers and I get 140-185lbs of boned out meat for the freezer that's a lot better eating than a whitetail.It would have to have an oppurtunity to kill some really big bucks on the place before I'd pay 3k,but that just me.You can easily double that cost when you add in feeding and travel.I'd also look at other hunting options and don't overlook doing hunts for exotics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baldhunter, post: 2564944, member: 11853"] I think deer hunting in Texas has gone a bit too expensive.I guess it really depends on how much you want to pay for recreation.Years ago I was on a lease with my family and friends.We paid a $150 each for a year round lease on 750acres,6 hunters.It was a fun get away.It had a nice 7acre lake so it fun to just go camping and fishing in the off season.It had a lot of deer on the place but they were small bodied and small racked.We lost that lease because the owners decided to high fence all their property and do game management with protein feeding to grow bigger bucks.We leased several other properties after that.None were as good and the areas were way over hunted for the amount of acres per hunter.After that I just started hunting does and cull bucks on managed lands.I got to hunt on some great hunting ranches,killed more deer and had a lot of fun for a lot less money than what a lease would have cost me.I got a part-time job as a guide on one of the ranches I was hunting on.That was fun,I got to guide for a bunch of kids killing their first deer which is a real rewarding thing and I made enough that paid for my hunting expenses too.I had to give that up the last few years because my wife has been ill and I have to stay close to home these days because I have to take care of her.I was lucky to find a ranch near by that has exotics,mainly red deer.It's a 1000 acres of brushy land and we hunt from blinds just like deer hunting.I can shoot a cull red stag for less than what it would cost me to shoot a 100" whitetail buck and take home bigger antlers and I get 140-185lbs of boned out meat for the freezer that's a lot better eating than a whitetail.It would have to have an oppurtunity to kill some really big bucks on the place before I'd pay 3k,but that just me.You can easily double that cost when you add in feeding and travel.I'd also look at other hunting options and don't overlook doing hunts for exotics. [/QUOTE]
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