How to Have All the Hunting Land You Want to Hunt
Find Land to Hunt
 Editor’s
Note: Do you want to have all the land you need to hunt
and even more? Instead of you looking for land to hunt,
how about if farmers and ranchers call you to come hunt
their properties? Predator hunters often enjoy these
kinds of perks. When coyotes, raccoons, bobcats, foxes
and/or feral hogs create problems for landowners, deer
hunters and turkey hunters, anyone who can remove these
predators generally has an open-ended invitation and
a warm welcome awaiting him to hunt new property.  Predators
kill and eat newborn livestock, including calves, lambs,
goats, deer fawns, occasionally adult deer, poultry,
domestic pets at times and turkey poults. They also
destroy turkey nests and the nests of songbirds. In
years past, trappers have kept predator numbers down.
However, with the decrease in fur prices for many years,
the predator hunter has replaced the trapper in many
areas as the way to keep predator populations in check.
Therefore, to have all the hunting land you want to
hunt, become a predator hunter.
 To
discover new land to hunt deer and turkeys on, become
a predator hunter in the off-season. To find that property:
* knock on doors of landowners, and ask if they mind
if you hunt the coyotes, foxes, hogs and bobcats there.
Very few landowners will refuse you, especially during
the off-season from hunting deer and turkeys.
* call the conservation officer in the area you want
to hunt. Tell him you enjoy hunting predators, and ask
him if he has the names of landowners having problems
with predators. Then you can call them and offer to
remove some of these animals.
* talk to your county agent, and inquire whether or
not he’s had any reports of crop damage due  to
predators from the farmers in his area. Let him know
that you’re more than happy to go in and help
remove some of those predators. The landowner may get
a crop depredation permit from the state to hunt predators
year-round, if the predators have damaged or destroyed
crops.
While the availability of land to hunt on has shrunk,
the amount of land that predator hunters can hunt now
seems endless. Most of the predator hunters I know have
more land to hunt than they ever possibly can hunt.
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