HUNTING FOR HUNTING LANDS
Finding A New Sweetheart Or A New Hunting Camp
Editor’s Note: I considered losing my first sweetheart
to that redneck and the Lake Hollalah Hunting Club to
the paper company as two of the most-tragic events of
my life. But I did go on to meet a new sweetheart and
locate a better hunting lease. And I went through a
similar process to find both. From these experiences,
I know several things for sure. If you fall in love
and lose that love, you can and will love again. If
you lose a hunting lease, you can and will find another
hunting lease. However, the difficult times come when
you don't have a sweetheart or don't have a hunting
lease. The following suggestions will help you with
your hunt for both.
To meet a new sweetheart, you must talk to people who
know numbers of girls, understand their personalities,
know what they look like and see potential for you as
a couple. When you're searching for a new hunting
club, you need to talk to people who know you, who have
acquaintances in other hunting clubs, who have checked-out
the quality of hunting at those hunting clubs and who
can determine if you'll make a good fit with that hunting
club. Or, you can partner with friends and relatives,
find land to lease and create your own hunting lease.
Let's look at how to get the information to find land
to lease. First, you must cast a big, wide net to learn
about all the available land you collectively can purchase
or lease. Use these resources to pinpoint hunting lands.
* Contact the Forest Landowners Association. This organization
matches hunters with landowners who have land to lease.
The Forest Landowner’s Association can be reached
by calling (800) 325-2954, writing to P.O. Box 450209,
Atlanta, GA 31145, or visit www.forestlandowners.com.
* Call or write Mossy Oak Properties, a company that
also tries to match up landowners who have property
to lease or sell with hunters. Mossy Oak Properties
can be reached by calling 1-866-667-2289 or visiting
www.mossyoakproperties.com.
* Subscribe to "Hunting Lease Magazine." This
web database helps hunters sell, lease and buy hunting
properties. The subscription costs $16.99 for six months.
* Contact the conservation officer in the county where
you want to hunt. He should have a working knowledge
of who owns land, who hunts those properties, whether
or not you can lease land in his county and from whom
you can lease it.
* Talk to a banker in the area where you want to lease
property. Bankers usually know landowners, especially
landowners who have agriculture and timber on their
properties and who willingly may lease the hunting rights
to their land.
* Go to the barber shops in the counties where you want
to hunt. Talk to the barbers about who has land you
can lease or buy and the hunting camps in the county
that perhaps you can join. The more rural the area,
the more the barber will
know about potential hunting lands.
* Talk to the rural mailmen and daily newspaper carriers.
These people go to the houses in the county where you
want to hunt. They usually know all the landowners and
can give you leads for leasing or purchasing hunting
land.
* Contact the veterinarians in a county. Once again,
they'll know most of the landowners and can help you
find land to hunt.
* Go prospecting close to home. Talk to your friends,
neighbors and family members to learn all you can about
hunting clubs in the area that you may want to join.
To become a member in most good hunting clubs, you'll
have to get on a waiting list. You really need to get
to become acquainted with the members of that hunting
club to make the process go by more quickly. To make
sure that you get in the hunting club, the members must
know you.
* Read the real-estate ads in the largest newspapers
or in your state or the local newspaper in the county
where you want to hunt. Look under the "Farms and
Lands" section.
* Contact a real-estate agent in the county where you
prefer to hunt for information about available lands.
TOMORROW: GET A NEW LOVE TO LOVE YOU
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