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boarmaster
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Posted: Fri Sep 7th, 2007 07:01 am |
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I grew up in Leesville. About 4 miles down alex hwy across from the parish barn. I know vernon parish like the back of my hand. The hogs are scattered. Fort Polk and Peason have a lot, but no trapping! Where is your lease? Vernon Parish is full of Deer; the last pictures I posted of the deer were from leesville. A friend of mine has a lease bordering Fort Polk. The hogs are really thick in hornbeck towards Toledo Bend. Most are Piney wood rooters cross breed with farm stock from the farmers that would free range the hogs and use catch dogs to round them up. I used to hunt the old tank trails from my house all the way from simpson to hawthorne. That was before the leases, when you could hunt anywhere. I wish My son could have experienced what I did. It's a different world now. The leases are good in some ways, but bad in others. Temple Inland is selling thier leases around here and the price went up so high that it was not worth getting. I was fortunate enough to spend a whole lot of time following several hog herds over the last several years and researching thier habbits. Might sound stupid to a few people, but I spent a whole lot of time with them. It got to the point that the younger ones would come to the feeders when I called them. On a positive note. There were vary few deer there. It was not the hogs that drove them off; just not good deer habbitat. on 5000 acres there was an average of 9 deer killed per year!!!!!!!!!!! Most were spikes and does. In vernon Parish, I would kill several deer per year; my first was an 8 point at 10 years old.
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wyohunter
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Posted: Fri Sep 7th, 2007 07:21 am |
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| I have never been around leases. So I have a lot of questions? Are they hard to find? I'm guessing that leases come in different sizes. If you were to break it down in acres, what would the average lease go per acre? How long do you normally lease for? Can you lease for specific animals?
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Quality Built
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Posted: Fri Sep 7th, 2007 07:24 am |
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My property is located in Slagle between HWY 8 and Hwy 28 the Calcasieu river runs through it. I grew up between Baton Rouge and Leesville/Simpson also most all of my hunting has been done in vernon parish it wasnt til I started hunting/trapping around where I now live that I even had a chance at a hog. We have the perfect swamp/piney/hard woods to have hogs but they are not there. I am currently leasing from Roy O martin and Meriwether La land and timber I havent had any problems renewing the lease each year so far. If you want to go deer hunting let me know I have a camp built on my property and plenty of deer and every other critter you can think of but no hogs!!
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Quality Built
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Posted: Fri Sep 7th, 2007 07:44 am |
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wyohunter wrote: I have never been around leases. So I have a lot of questions? Are they hard to find? I'm guessing that leases come in different sizes. If you were to break it down in acres, what would the average lease go per acre? How long do you normally lease for? Can you lease for specific animals?
You can find Timber companies with hunting land available online. The companies that I lease from do a 5 yr contract(you can keep the land as long as you want as long as you keep paying) price per acre varies with each company I have land from $3.00 - $6.00 per acre with insurance I have seen land for $15.00 and up. The way I do it is I have 8-10 members each year we all pay $550.00 each and the remaining balance is what we lease out the turkey rights for turkey hunters. You would have to lease it all meaning the whole tract it could be a few hundred - thousands of acres you can always get a small tract but most companies have a minimum as for animal specific some companies contract trappers to remove beaver and they pay a bounty per tail usually $25.00, as for hunting use you lease the land to hunt what ever you want but they may have rules on what size deer you can take and some require harvest data each year. It is the only way we down here can hunt besides the over crowded public land/ WMA's so to me its worth the small amount to manage my deer herd and use the land as if it were mine.
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wyohunter
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Posted: Fri Sep 7th, 2007 10:25 am |
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| Thank you, that was very interesting. If you wanted could you act as a guide and charge people to hunt on your lease to help recoup the cost?
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