Anyone had any experience in Fannin just talked to a guy about a lease and it sounds real good exept for the antler restriction.
Thanks

Where in Fannin County.... unless it's way north and east, there are not huntable numbers of deer, although there are some selling leases in other parts of the county now...

Its near honeygrove

I've heard mixed reactions about that area...like you said...antler restrictions (like them or not) will play a major role in the deer hunting in that area.

I used to hunt public north of Honey Grove back in the eighties.
Never saw a Buck, alive or dead, that would have satisfied the AR rule.

Well it's a good thing we have ARs now in Fannin County to let those poor young bucks grow!

The old Coffee Mill Lake bunch used to have a sayin' "if it's got bone, it's goin' home." I hunted there for 8 years. Never saw a Buck on the hoof. It was nothin' to see 50 or more Does in a day. For the life of me, I will never understand why U couldn't take Does.

Well im only going to pay about $600 so I think its going to be worth it... hopefully

I've come a long way as a hunter since then. Heck, now I won't shoot anything that aint 2 1/2 years old or older.



LOL

Yea out there I could only kill does I think from november 26-29th since the owner isnt going to get any permits.

Curly,
Not sure I understand your comment. Based on the comments here there are little or no bucks due to the "shoot anything with horns" menality. The AR's were wanted (by a majority) to correct this problem.

My lease last season was North of Honey Grove and just south of the public land. I thought it was the WORST lease I've been on EVER! You can only shoot a doe on Thanksgiving weekend( didn't see any that weekend and probably only 5-6 all season) and the only buck I seen was a 4 1/2 year old FREAK! Looked like a unicorn on one side with a bunch of stickers. We had three 25 acre wheat fields that should have brought in deer and hogs, but it didn't. Don't even think about setting up a feeder, the deer and hogs don't like em. It might be cheap, but there's a reason.

Thanks for the input droptine I am going to take a look at it tomorrow we shall see how it goes

I'm from telephone Whig is in fannin county and I have killed deer in nebraska south Texas and Oklahoma o and hagermans. Anyway don't get a lease their. Not worth a crap. I've never killed a deer in fannin county. Theirs some places that are worth gettin out their and tryin but not many. Don't get the lease man trust me on this. I'm grown up here and was born here.

I hunted telephone, bonham and the government land this year and didn't see a thing.

Well the guy swears up and down he took two ten points off the place last year and saw a huge one last year as well that he couldnt get a shot at do you guys think it would even be worth my time to go look at it????

Nope!!!!!!!!!!!
And Fannin County has AR's and he should be turned into to the Game Warden if he DID take two ten pointers. Doubt he even seen two 10's though.

Well he said they were outside the ears but heck if I no oh and he said he new the Warden personally but idk

well hes a liar then because its illegal to take two ten point bucks in Fannin Co.....just walk away from this one.

Yea I think I am he said that he got one and one of his buddies got another but im just going to say screw it back to the drawing board

IMO I would look hard for a lease in Montague, Jack or Clay County. Those wouldnt be a far drive for you and you will usually see lots of deer.

Yea I would like to but my funds arent as good as most people lol

I hear ya on that brother. I still think you could find something around $600 a gun if you looked hard. Might not be big acreage but there are some out that way for that price.

Tony I'd hate to see you spend money to deer hunt in Fannin County. In the 80's when the government land was by drawing, it was poor at best. Now that anyone can pay and hunt, there's more hunters than deer in there.

Dillon u know any leases I could get on