alyeskan
Spike
Dang, thats getting close to a Yukon moose trip or a trip to the Mescalaro fully guided for trophy bull elk. Makes me feel like I'm just a poor country boy
What is the Current Price Range on Deer Lease in Central Kentucky?
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Dark Cloud
12 pointer
I sure consider myself fortunate,except for the last four or five years ,not hunting ,I’ve never had to pay to hunt.
carnivore
12 pointer
Guides that are paying 18k for 600 acres are putting 10-25 hunters on a property per season at 3-5k a piece for a 3-7 day hunt.
Its hard for a hunter to compete for a lease with people who can pay $30 an acre because they are making money off that investment.
Is it worth it? Thats going to depend on your situation. I personally would spend that money on my own property, an Alaska Moose hunt, or find a different property thats a better value. Im sure the property owners has all sorts of bs trail cam pics but unless they are during daylight hours and confirmed to be spots you can tell are actually on that property I wouldn’t trust them.
I might know a guy with ~200 acres for 4-5k that might suit you better. @bigbonner
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Junglekat
12 pointer
there better be a booner behind every other tree,the prices have read,u can kill deer anywhere,and the rut makes more ground equal,if I was truly loaded ,I would pay big prices ,but u would have to have proof monsters lived there during season
Yep and I have counted about several of theses 1/28/2023 They should be bruisers next fall.
This one will not be around but there are several others there.
Seeing more and more leases asking $4500-$5k per hunter, no thanks. You could buy an acre of land a year for that. Price is getting so high you need too many people to keep costs down it’s about as good an exp as hunting public land.
$15-20 an acre is about as good as you can hope for. Our lease went up this year, land broker has been trying to lease it out from under us, loggers the same. They let us keep it but we had to pay for it. Having good relationships and being good to landowners helps….a lot! Haven’t had my lease in NC go up on 15 years.
$15-20 an acre is about as good as you can hope for. Our lease went up this year, land broker has been trying to lease it out from under us, loggers the same. They let us keep it but we had to pay for it. Having good relationships and being good to landowners helps….a lot! Haven’t had my lease in NC go up on 15 years.
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cedar creek
12 pointer
- Sep 7, 2014
- 2,084
I rented 62 acres for $1000, for deer hunting only to a father and son, knob ground,
ManofManyStangs
8 pointer
- May 4, 2009
- 914
I won't pay over $10 an acre but you can't blame the property owner trying to get more. I have a feeling Whitetail Outfitters may default on a bunch of leases in the near future.
cedar creek
12 pointer
- Sep 7, 2014
- 2,084
We got ran off a WTH lease rabbit hunting because they didn’t pay landowners, after a brief talk we got to hunt ,but it didn’t feel right so we left….
cedar creek
12 pointer
- Sep 7, 2014
- 2,084
The economy will bring lease money down, I was hunting beside a 20k lease, watched bucks in rut come on my side then run back to other side, talked to the guys hunting it and gave them some advice on the place because I used to hunt it, they appreciate me passing on the smaller bucks and they were trophy minded, told them I never saw anything over 140inch on that place in my life, they were shown some pics but I kind of held my tounge because I knew deer that caliber were not there.
ManofManyStangs
8 pointer
- May 4, 2009
- 914
Kentucky business accused of not paying out money
Kentucky business accused of not paying out money to raffle winners The Jessamine County Sheriff’s Office says they’re investigating White Heaven Outfitters in Nicholasville for illegal raffling.(WKYT) By Samantha Valentino Published: Mar. 10, 2023 at 11:38 AM EST|Updated: 19 minutes ago...
kentuckyhunting.net
Redlined
12 pointer
Back in my younger days, when I thought I had something to prove, we had several leases with some extraordinary bucks on them. Fast forward to today and I have zero. Outfitters, antler envy, commercialization of hunting etc have driven lease prices to the point of insanity. If someone can get thay kind of money for their land, I'm all for it; but as for myself I'll hang it up before I'd pay those prices to hunt each season.
Capttrae
12 pointer
- Apr 2, 2012
- 4,693
This is western Ky so it may be different in central Ky. But we are paying right at $23/acer
1wildcatfan
12 pointer
Curious, you going through a broker or dealing directly with the landowner? Wondering how much brokers bump the price up so they make money.