Hunting lease

[maplemas]

Has anyone had success leasing land for deer season? Curious about the process and potential income.

[bigschuss]

Has anyone had success leasing land for deer season? Curious about the process and potential income.

No. But I'd be interested if you decide to pursue a lease depending on where you are in NY.

[buckeye gold]

Leasing can provide some additional income off your land, but be sure that you have proof of insurance from those leasing. In Ohio, law protects the landowner from any legal or civil actions for simply granting permission for recreational activities. If you lease your land it becomes a business and you are liable, so either the leaser or the landowner needs additional coverage. I personally do not like leasing and my family has all agreed that family lands (around 1200 acres) will not be leased. I feel like I am screwing my friends and neighbors for a little extra income. When I grew up you could hunt any land around you and neighbors would just wave and say good luck. Now all the land adjoining our farms is leased to out of state hunters and it's all posted and they get angry if you make one step close to the line. Yet time after time they are on your land. I will be honest I very much resent my neighbors leasing the ground adjoining me, I'm tired of dealing with the arseholes jumping the lines and informing me to stay off their lease ( I do not trespass their lease, they just assume I do). This is the pro and cons of hunting leases. More income, but hard feelings among the locals. Choose which you want, peace or money. The other con is the leasers can come and go as they please, define vehicle use in your lease.

[maple flats]

I allow hunting on my land, but only my grandson, so no charge. He usually gets 2 or 3 deer each season and he's only 16 today. When he first started hunting the age in NYS had just changed to 12, to hunt with an experienced hunter 18+. Since then he's gotten 2 or 3 each season. So far this year he has 1 bow kill, a doe. He saw and got pictures of an 8 pointer but no shot.

[Pdiamond]

Buckeye - I feel your pain. Here in Michigan unless you own property or know somebody that does, and will let you hunt, you are stuck with hunting public land. Don't get me wrong hunting public land can be good if you are young. I say that because you need to go in about 3/4 to a mile to get away from the fringe hunters. Most land around here we used to hunt is now all leased out, and like you said you can't walk anywhere.