doctors and lawyers ruin all duck hunting

[torch]

I will lease just about any duck land in this area for 5 to 7 it just ain't going to happen. Most fields are in the 16 to 35 dollar range. Almost all pits in a field with proven record 5000.00 to 7500.00. Rice and bean fields with skid blind are 3500.00. Duck hunting has become big big business in Mississippi and I don't look for leases to go down even if they cut the season length and or limits.

[dukdawgn]

land leasing prices went up, so i cut off my HBO and Cinemax to foot the bill....... maybe you could try the same. heheheheheheheheh

I still don't fault anyone for bidding wars. Thats their gig. I'd just move on to the next hole, and let them fight over it. If you can take a season to set up your field they way the ducks like, then you'd be in your own field with the ducks come the next season.

[dudlbugr]

On the other hand:
If that Doctor or Lawyer or Businessman or Fool that Hit It Big at the Casino buys up all of that property PURELY for hunting and recreation, he will enroll all that he can into WRP, and draw the one time paynemt. The gov't (you and me and every body else that PAYS TAXES) essentially pays the land owner to plant the acreage to trees, with a maximum of 10% left out for food plots and such. He gets somewhere around half the value of his land as farm acreage, but he can never re-plant farm crops. I think that's the general way it works, anyway.

OK:

Think of those blocks of acreage as beans, cotton, rice, corn, wheat, or milo. How much wildlife does that acreage harbor at any given point in time? Now picture that same acreage planted to trees for some rich guy's enjoyment. As private land, in both situations.

A lot of the funding comes from the tax payer, of which I am one, but I think it's good for both sides of the coin. I think we will be able to watch a steady increase in the quality of our wildlife experience for years to come.

Of course, just sitting here thinking about duck hunting, I thought of a place I used to hunt years ago, that is now owned by someone else, and I can't hunt it......

[Wingman]

10 grand for a 20 acre hole? HOLY SHNIKIES! Let's see, we have 300 acres of ponds. I could drain them all, plant in corn and rice, flood and lease for what....150,000? That's it, we're out of the fish business tomorrow.

Wingman

[dudlbugr]

Are your ponds covered in ducks? I'll be there in an hour!

[Wingman]

For 150K, I will go to Iowa and bring them back in a net!

Wingman

[quackhead11]

Hate to hear the news Skeeter, hell any holes with ducks this year is probably worth a million. I don't claim to know much on the subject, but as long as the agreement was made verbally and nothing was signed the hunting rights are only valid for one year and could be renewed or voided the next year. Therefore, the wife should return half of the money and possibly retain the rights for next year. Generally any agreement pertaining to land made over one year has to be in writing. Good luck, hope it all works out for you.