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<blockquote data-quote="kakflygun" data-source="post: 2565066" data-attributes="member: 11517"><p>I've had a lease for 22 years mostly for my sons that have grown up on it, that straddles Stephens and Shackelford Counties - a little over 4 sections, 2 hrs to the gate from home. We have six lessees (some with families, some don't dear hunt - just birds and hogs). We set our own harvest limits that follow TPWD deer census - we're usually under due to drought, etc. Only larger ranches (1,000, 2,000, 4,000, and 12,000 acres) surround us and two only allow quail hunting... except for one smaller 600 acre place is high fenced, so no game competition. My friends and I keep tabs on leases and rates. $10-12 per acre with at least electric and water, sometimes a farmhouse. Rates range from $8 to $10 per acre typically with at least electricity, small or large. If your adjacent larger lease has active hunters they probably have established feeder locations and food plots to draw and keep game. You have some water so might be a stopping point but otherwise passing through game activity. 1-3 feeders for 150 acres would help, except for placement considering safety. 150 acres sounds like room but you should check out what your actual shooting lanes could be - probably pretty limited, when considering your camp location, more than one blind (probably two if you're trying to get a hunting bud on also), and whether the direction is away from the public roads, adjacent property improvements, or visible hunter blind locations. Limitation on deer harvest also devalues the rate even further. I was looking at an additional 700 acre lease in Palo Pinto County from a friend, but the Dempsey fire ran over it so we both decided to wait a year - no where near $20/acre - less than half, and with common-sense self-imposed harvest limits due to drought, etc. TPWD's online MLD calculator gives you an idea of appropriate harvests. It may be tempting but $20/acre is still way too much even for convenience in Parker, Palo Pinto, Hood counties, etc. within an hour, and assuming for that lease context (what's around you).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kakflygun, post: 2565066, member: 11517"] I've had a lease for 22 years mostly for my sons that have grown up on it, that straddles Stephens and Shackelford Counties - a little over 4 sections, 2 hrs to the gate from home. We have six lessees (some with families, some don't dear hunt - just birds and hogs). We set our own harvest limits that follow TPWD deer census - we're usually under due to drought, etc. Only larger ranches (1,000, 2,000, 4,000, and 12,000 acres) surround us and two only allow quail hunting... except for one smaller 600 acre place is high fenced, so no game competition. My friends and I keep tabs on leases and rates. $10-12 per acre with at least electric and water, sometimes a farmhouse. Rates range from $8 to $10 per acre typically with at least electricity, small or large. If your adjacent larger lease has active hunters they probably have established feeder locations and food plots to draw and keep game. You have some water so might be a stopping point but otherwise passing through game activity. 1-3 feeders for 150 acres would help, except for placement considering safety. 150 acres sounds like room but you should check out what your actual shooting lanes could be - probably pretty limited, when considering your camp location, more than one blind (probably two if you're trying to get a hunting bud on also), and whether the direction is away from the public roads, adjacent property improvements, or visible hunter blind locations. Limitation on deer harvest also devalues the rate even further. I was looking at an additional 700 acre lease in Palo Pinto County from a friend, but the Dempsey fire ran over it so we both decided to wait a year - no where near $20/acre - less than half, and with common-sense self-imposed harvest limits due to drought, etc. TPWD's online MLD calculator gives you an idea of appropriate harvests. It may be tempting but $20/acre is still way too much even for convenience in Parker, Palo Pinto, Hood counties, etc. within an hour, and assuming for that lease context (what's around you). [/QUOTE]
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