Some of you guys that are hunting super small property, how to enter/exit without spooking every deer around? I often have that problem hunting much larger property. I couldn't imagine sneaking into a 5 acre spot without alerting everything.
Buying it to hunt for a few days of the year and it has zero other purpose? I don't care how productive it could be, I don't find that sane. How often do you think this spot will produce? Every year? 3 years? 5 years? God doesn't bless anyone with deep pocket books, they bless themselves. But, that's another topic.
The definition of hunting is at best an enigma when one attempts to truly define it. I stated I would question it in that I've never been wired to have to have new stands or new settings throughout the season to look forward to hunting. Do I love hunting, YES. Do I desire more ground or properties to hunt, YES. But if tomorrow all I had was one tree on one property...I'd still be there on the journey to hopefully releasing an arrow. The drive to hunt is driven by far too many things for anyone to remove any aspect that is applicable for another. To some it is survival (rare these days), others the chase, others an escape. For me personally it's the pursuit of the elusive creature of a mature buck and at times meat for the freezer (doe hunting)...for that I don't need a specific amount stands or land size. I have many different small acre properties I hunt ranging from a 2 acre wood chunk behind a house, to a 70 acre farm with maybe 20 acres of woods...the drive and anticipation of the season has never lessoned, if anything it has increased.
Honestly if done right small properties can have the shortest and quickest access trails imagineable and I attribute alot of my success to that very thing!
It may be buildable in the future but highly doubtful unless dries up.....I find it truly sad you have such a "look down on the world" mentality and cannot acknowledge any kind of validity in anyone's thoughts outside your own. Props for being confident in your own thoughts but...
I think the biggest problem I would have is not feeling "alone" out there. I like big woods hunting for the sake of being relatively far away from anyone. No human noise unless a plane flies over. I would not give that up for more deer or better hunting. I do have a 20 acre lease this year down by my house that I will be hunting. There is a train track about 1/2 mile away that is very busy so I get to listen to the train horn every 20 min. I'll hunt it but it won't be the same. .
The 5acres that I hunted in years past (which I longer do) and my Father In Laws 10 are all behind their houses.... So we just slide in early from behind the house and also his neighbors all have at least 10acres as well if not more so deer are plentiful in his area of Front Royal <>< + ><>
It truly is a separate world inside the hunting world when you compare big tracts to small ones. I'll be honest someday I hope to own land up in the big woods of Wisconsin, but even then it'll never be to the size I'd desire but still will be less "noise" than I currently have on my hunts .
Oh Ty, you don't know me very well. I don't look down on the world at all. What I have a hard time comprehending is how people don't want to see more of this wonderful world we live in. For a God fearing man, such as yourself, I'm amazed you don't have the desire to see more of this wonderful world we live in. To take limited funds and put them into a small piece of property for the sole purpose of deer hunting a few days a year is truly insane to me. Again, "to me." I am probably slightly bitter though. Bitter at the fact I don't have more time to see as much of this world as I used to.
Bud the drive is there, hence the trip to Kansas this year and hopefully every 2 to 4 years more elsewhere but my dream is to simply own some close to the family I hope to have soon. Oh and I'll admit the price for the 5 acres is INSANELY low, only reason I am willing to buy it
I bet you could afford a 40 acre parcel in Wisconsin right now that either isn't buildable or has very little buildable land. There are guys driving around with 1/2 ton pick ups that cost more. Get a long term loan and I bet you could do it.
90% of the country doesn't have the option of hunting "big woods". Where I'm at, a 100 acre timber is big. We have lots of ag and lots of livestock, so timber is basically limited to areas that can't be farmed and wasn't good to graze cattle. Lots of ditches, creeks, rivers and bluffs, but not a lot of large blocks of timber. There's a 60 acre tract just to the south of mine and it's the largest block of timer in a 4 mile radius.
Brad....you don't even realize how close this is to happening honestly Already have an area and spot I have information land is coming up for sale. Even discussed it over with the wife...it sucks cuz it is a drive but well long term well worth it I think. *side question...if you own land does Wisconsin offer landowner tags? I know some states have non-res, landowner and res tags.
To compare and contrast. My land is in a solid 3,000 acre block of woods without one farm field. If you take out the farm field that is mixed it it would be many square miles of continuous woods. There are 320 acres of land for sale adjacent to me right now from a paper company that is somewhat landlocked. If only I had the money to pick that up.
That is a newly changed item here in Wisconsin. LOL. What part of the state? It is too complicated to explain it for statewide.
Oh got ya....only been there once will attempt to find out area for you and take it to PM's if I do. (not to hi-jack thread more than we have )
Here, I found this. This explains it pretty well. The anterless tags are the only thing that is different for landowners. Buck tags would be the same if you are hunting public or private. http://dnr.wi.gov/permits/documents/2014AntlerlessPermitPamphlet.pdf
I am really surprised by all the small acreage answers. Maybe I a spoiled but I could not picture myself hunting the same wood lot(less the 10 acres) enough times in season to own for that sole purpose. I would be bored to tears.
