Hunting access

[Nomad]

5 minutes ago, crappyice said:

getting all the neighbors on board is the challenge and often the end of any potential.

Where I hunt and own land neighbors can be a half mile or more away . Not always of course we have houses along the road where family has sold off acre lots in days gone by .but where I hunt I can  go a mile north or more south and not cross a yard or house ,east or west maybe a half mile .

[Larry]

I hunted with a friend on about 40 acres since the eighties he stopped hunting about 8 years ago so I was the only one hunting it I would do work the place. Last year he decided to sell it it has a old tailor on it water and septic I wouldn't drink the water. So I looked up the assessment.  The full assessment was 32k I was going to offer 64 in cash. He put it up for 157 and said I don't need the money so he wouldn't take less than a 100. So I didn't even make a offer he got 127 for it. I told him I would of sold it for that price to

[Big Paul]

When I was in my twenties a local farmer was desperate for help getting hay in the barn with rain coming. I dropped everything and unloaded square bales for the rest of the day. Still great friends today and I still hunt that farm, mainly for turkeys. Round bales kind of eliminated squares but some farmers still produce some. I still help my friend every year.

[lucky118]

I don't  even bother asking anymore. Just hunt state land. Sit within a few hundred yrds of there lines and shoot  the deer when they come over. 😆 

[2BuckBizCT]

1 hour ago, lucky118 said:

I don't  even bother asking anymore. Just hunt state land. Sit within a few hundred yrds of there lines and shoot  the deer when they come over. 😆 

It's not a bad a strategy. I'm not sure I've ever technically killed a deer on private land. Recently, I have a few private access spots that gets me into hard to get to stateland spots. With cliffs, and terrain change, I'll see hunters in the distance but rarely run into them in the dark. 

[Upstate Nerdneck]

2 hours ago, Big Paul said:

When I was in my twenties a local farmer was desperate for help getting hay in the barn with rain coming. I dropped everything and unloaded square bales for the rest of the day. Still great friends today and I still hunt that farm, mainly for turkeys. Round bales kind of eliminated squares but some farmers still produce some. I still help my friend every year.

You're spoiled, they have a kicker!  20+ years of hooking them off the chute with a 70 to 90 year old 90% deaf WW2 vet driving the tractor.  I got the scars to prove it!  RIP gramp.

[Bucksnbows]

Loss of access to private lands is the # 1 reason hunters in NJ claim they left the sport.  We are seeing leases taking over the few good lands left.  And as a direct result, our public access lands get absolutely hammered by deer hunters and deer numbers remain very low on public lands.     

[2BuckBizCT]

3 minutes ago, Bucksnbows said:

Loss of access to private lands is the # 1 reason hunters in NJ claim they left the sport.  We are seeing leases taking over the few good lands left.  And as a direct result, our public access lands get absolutely hammered by deer hunters and deer numbers remain very low on public lands.     

I wish CT had leases. There is zero from what I can tell. So much woods in the state, it would be a great way to try hunting some of it without committing more than a year.

[Bucksnbows]

2 minutes ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

I wish CT had leases. There is zero from what I can tell. So much woods in the state, it would be a great way to try hunting some of it without committing more than a year.

I can't imagine CT not having leases.  There are certainly no laws against it.  

[2BuckBizCT]

Just now, Bucksnbows said:

I can't imagine CT not having leases.  There are certainly no laws against it.  

I know, but I've googled around and asked around (bowsite too). There's nothing formally out there. I'm sure some side deals made, but no companies offering leases 

[Bucksnbows]

1 minute ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

I know, but I've googled around and asked around (bowsite too). There's nothing formally out there. I'm sure some side deals made, but no companies offering leases 

Not sure what companies would offer leases.  Here in NJ, it is farmers and other private landowners.  Lots of gun clubs pay leases here, and often to a farmer.

[2BuckBizCT]

2 minutes ago, Bucksnbows said:

Not sure what companies would offer leases.  Here in NJ, it is farmers and other private landowners.  Lots of gun clubs pay leases here, and often to a farmer.

I meant like in NY and other states where a leasing company or logging company is the middle man and has a website with leases listed, etc.

Like this > https://www.basecampleasing.com/land/newyork-hunting-leases.htm

Edited September 26, 2023 by 2BuckBizCT

[blackbeltbill]

5 hours ago, lucky118 said:

I don't  even bother asking anymore. Just hunt state land. Sit within a few hundred yrds of there lines and shoot  the deer when they come over. 😆 

  There are some areas near New Jersey  where,I can sit back 50 yards from Private Land and hunt there.

 

[Nomad]

6 hours ago, Big Paul said:

Round bales kind of eliminated squares but some farmers still produce some.

Horse tracks buy the squares .

[Bucksnbows]

2 hours ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

I meant like in NY and other states where a leasing company or logging company is the middle man and has a website with leases listed, etc.

Like this > https://www.basecampleasing.com/land/newyork-hunting-leases.htm

Here in NJ, paper companies hold exactly 0 acres of land.  I'm guessing CT is a lot the same.  I did hunt on a private club by invite in the 'daks a bunch of years ago that has a paper company lease of something like 9,000 acres.  But that was in NY and the club has been around a long, long time and keeps that lease up on an annual basis as I recall.  The single largest landowner in NJ after the state or a county is Peter Kellogg of Hudson Farm Club fame, and he owns a touch under 4,000 acres and has a hunting and fishing and shooting club on that land.