$10.00 an acre is actually cheap in my opinion. If you can't afford to buy your own place, or afford to hunt on a nice place, then try knocking on doors. You'd be surprised what a friendly 10 minute conversation can accomplish.

Yup.

But for the OP, I'm sorry it's going down this way and I do hope everything works out. But if I may add a little perspective, it's not the worst call ever.

I can think of several phone calls I've received over the last few years that were absolute heart-breakers. Possibly losing a deer lease isn't anywhere near that bad. Good luck with getting another year out of the place and/or finding a new lease, though.

.. Saw one piece for 10 dollars an acre, WOW! You would have to have 20 people to make it affordable and then deal with 19 yahoos all around you. Yuck!

Just received a phone call from land owner he is selling the property and not guaranteeing deer hunting this year.
Was a small family 4 of us. Almost September and now What? Anyone have any ideas or help on what we can do.
Lesson learned no contract. What happened to a mans word.

If you think 10/acre is outrageous, I hope you don't ever have to look for a new place to hunt! You may become a former hunter.

I can find a lot of them $5-8/ac.

What happened to 100 dollars a gun? greed that's what That's what we paid for a 1200 acre lease in Llano in the late 80s early 90s. There was only 5 of us on it. Hunting got famous thanks to 24 hour round the clock hunting shows. Used to have to rent them or order them. That 10 dollar deal was 17,300 dollars a year for a crappy county and you can have it.

Greed? Buy your own place and pay the bills. Land cost, taxes, maintenance (roads, fences, habitat management), livestock, drought, flooding, insurance,......list goes on. Then you have every friend who wants to come out to hunt for "free". Nothing is free or low cost, someone paid for your privilege of low cost or free hunting...you didn't. Today's hunting prices came from 15-20 yrs of serious drought that have left ranchers struggling to pay bills. Higher fuel costs, less livestock to no livestock due to drought, no water, wells going dry, higher insurance costs, habitat management, fence repairs, road repairs(sometimes due to those "free" hunters tearing them up)...the list goes on. Go back to that 1200 acres in Llano and ask to lease it today. Hunting is not any more famous today than it was 50 yrs ago. Costs of everything are way more today than 50 yrs ago and even 20 yrs ago.

You know the saddest thing about hunting to me is that how hard is to find a good hunting spot and then loosing it. Ive delt with it too, whether a land owner dies off, politics, or just some old spooky wife of a land owner that has been watching way way too much 700 club. You know like when she asks him why does that guy come out here so much, and the old man says he is just hunting. Then the wife says I don't feel good about it, and that's the end of that. I got online the other day to look at hunting property, man hunting has become so over commercialized and over priced. Saw one piece for 10 dollars an acre, WOW! You would have to have 20 people to make it affordable and then deal with 19 yahoos all around you. Yuck!

I don't disagree with stx, costs are going to rise. But one cannot ignore the impact hunting shows and outdoor channels have had on land availability. My buddy in Kansas used to have unfettered access to thousands of acres of farmland owned by his farmer friends. Little by little, year by year, that access dwindled as the farmers "leased" their land to outfitters and hunt clubs as they could double their income per year. Those that could buy, did.

Whitetail Properties doesn't exist because farmers costs went up.

It is greed. You cant blame mother nature on the hunters and take it out on them. Buy some cows or declare it a tree farm. The taxes would be dirt cheap. Greed got my friends kicked off that lease in Llano. They were on it for 14 years and someone do a deal under the table for more money and they lost it. Ya 100 dollars a gun is cheap, but its just hunting and not gold mining. At 10 dollars an acre that place would be 12,000 dollars now days, so that's 11,500 dollars more. See what Im talking about. 30 to 40 years and people see the dollar signs. Hey its all about the biz and not about the freedom to affordably hunt. If all your friends want to come out and hunt, just be thankful you have friends that like to hunt and let them come out in moderation. Bird hunts usually make for some good comraderie. Some of my best huntin buddies are dead and I can promise you when there gone youll wish they were out there hunting on your place with you. I used to try to hunt strictly by myself for big bucks and still do sometimes, but the enjoyment you get hanging out BSin out in the woods is priceless. Trust me high dollar hunting leases put big bucks in peoples pockets and Im talking about the paper kind.

I think it is simply and purely supply and demand.

It would be fool hearty for a LO to not try and get what the market will bear. Some will even keep a lower price just to keep a good group of folks, but most will go with the trend. Just another "commodity" for a LO to add to his income.

If there was no demand, there wouldn't be a market for it. I don't see where anyone can be made to blame.

My wifes fathers family has 19000 acres in New Mexico, that's 19 thousand ! and Ive never been able to hunt it, because they sale there tags to a guide service out of Houston ? The wife and I have been together for over 16 years. NO LOVE there just money. Its a cattle ranch and they do make money on the cows too. They are a bunch of non hunters and don't have a clue bout what a hunter loves to do. NOT A CLUE look at you like who cares. And so Im guessing that housing and land have gone up 24xs in value since the 1990s. 1200 acres for 5 hunters at 100 ollars each is 500 dollars. 10 dollars an acre for 1200 acres is 12,000 dollars and that's 24 times the 100 dollar a hunter price.