The LEASING OPTION
Wouldn’t you love to hunt thousands of acres of high-quality, limited-access deer habitat for $300 to $500 a year?
In many states, hunters who don’t own land or hunt public land can only hope for an invitation from a friend or relative to hunt prime private property. Hunters in the Deep South have a fourth option. Many belong to clubs that lease hunting land, or in some cases, they lease it individually.
While unheard of in many parts of the United States, deer hunting leases are a vital part of the hunting landscape in the Deep South. Even in states where public land is plentiful, it’s still only a small fraction of what’s privately owned. South of the Mason-Dixon Line, big timber companies and paper producers like Potlatch, Plum Creek Timber Corp., Weyerhaeuser and others own forestland
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