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Hardwood11

Hardwood11

It is going to be a good fall!
Man, I find it difficult to concentrate on work right now. As a landowner it is very hard not to spend every hour you can hunting, checking trail cams, monitoring the habitat improvements and the food plots.

Of course, the best thing right now is to get in and out of your stands with minimal disturbance, which I have been doing. Time for all day sits this week!

It is such an addiction to be there though...

Anyone else who can relate?
 
No doubt!! I really want to go plant some trees here, put a plot there etc,in spots where/when I am on the stand. Have fence to build, trees to cut off a fenceline for the maintainer...all sorts of stuff to do as a landowner that those who only hunt a farm never have to consider.

Sure is a lot of fun tho :D

For me, I love getting out and sweating on the farm on my days off. Nice change of pace from the office work I normally do and I really enjoy myself out there.
 
RELATE?...nope.

Try living 2.5 hrs from your hunting ground, if you want some REAL "strain"...but I understand my distance helps keep me from over hunting my land too.

I'd rather live on it, and monitor the hell out of it, though:way:
 
you think thats stressful.....a buddy of mine takes care and oversees a decent piece of property for a guy that lives out on the island of Martha's Vineyard! Now talk about stressing during hunting season if you're that guy..
 
I know the feeling, I live 1.5hrs away. I would be there every weekend but my wife has other ideas.
Even worse with my job I could probally move there and be there full time, my wife has other ideas when it comes to that also.
So I just try to make it work as much as possible. I keep telling her when the kids are gone we are moving.

Bowdude
 
turtlshell said:
RELATE?...nope.

Try living 2.5 hrs from your hunting ground, if you want some REAL "strain"...but I understand my distance helps keep me from over hunting my land too.

I'd rather live on it, and monitor the hell out of it, though:way:
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I hear ya...add another hour for me.
 
zattack10 said:
you think thats stressful.....a buddy of mine takes care and oversees a decent piece of property for a guy that lives out on the island of Martha's Vineyard! Now talk about stressing during hunting season if you're that guy..
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Honestly, I could care less about some rich-guy who lives on martha's vineyard that owns property in Iowa.

Hope for your buddy's sake, he has rights to hunt the land during the years "rich-guy" doesn't draw a tag for Iowa.

Don't get me wrong...I'd love for some "rich-guy" to ask me to watch over his hunting property, but I don't think that Martha's vineyard guy is really worrying a whole lot about his Iowa land. He doesn't have to "stress" over losing his hunting grounds by some D-bag tossing money at a landowner to steal the land out from under him.
 
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turtlshell said:
Honestly, I could care less about some rich-guy who lives on martha's vineyard that owns property in Iowa.

Hope for your buddy's sake, he has rights to hunt the land during the years "rich-guy" can doesn't draw a tag for Iowa.

Don't get me wrong...I'd love for some "rich-guy" to ask me to watch over his hunting property, but I don't think that Martha's vineyard guy is really worrying a whole lot about his Iowa land. He doesn't have to "stress" over losing his hunting grounds by some D-bag tossing money at a landowner to steal the land out from under him.
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Yup I feel the same way about it honestly. I'm not a big fan of these rich guys out east that buy all this land to hunt here. Takes away hunting opportunities from the locals. Do not like it one bit.
 
long drive to your land

turtlshell said:
RELATE?...nope.

Try living 2.5 hrs from your hunting ground, if you want some REAL "strain"...but I understand my distance helps keep me from over hunting my land too.

I'd rather live on it, and monitor the hell out of it, though:way:
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I can relate to that as well, as I have a farm 4 hours away, and one in Iowa that I never get to hunt, except this year (yes)!

The one positive as you mentioned is that you don't pressure it. Kinda fun to take a trip and get away as well.
 
My father inherited my grandfather's land of about 650 acres here in SW Iowa. I have FINALLY been able to move back and talked to my dad about SERIOUSLY managing the property for whitetail, turkey, and hopefully a few pheasants.

This spring and summer I am going to be BUSY. Took out the aerial shots and have been looking at where I will be putting in food plots, cleaning out areas, etc.

I can't wait!
 
skyleralan said:
My father inherited my grandfather's land of about 650 acres here in SW Iowa.
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You are one lucky & blessed guy. Be thankful everyday you hunt there! All my family land was sold before I was 12 years old. I knew & decided to buy land when I was 10 and it locked it solid when our family farms were sold right after that.
Since college, I have saved and bought & sold some farms & just love owning land.
Other folks in general.... I'd be a little careful on thinking through the sentiment of others who buy land. Folks have been buying & selling real estate in every fashion & use imaginable for years and for all those same years- folks have millions of reasons they resent the sale/purchase of any piece of land, cottage, house, acreage, etc.
I will admit, at 10-12 years old, as our land was sold, I was angry. I had gone out there since I could remember (4-5 years old?) & all of the sudden I couldn't anymore. I was angry at the time: angry at the people who TOOK IT FROM ME and angry at my family. At 10-12 years old, I let my family know it too. They all said to me "well why didn't you buy it?" I said, because I'm 10 years old (they knew what they were saying as harsh as that is). "why don't you work hard and buy your own land someday?" I said, well, I will. And, yes, I did. Starting from SCRATCH, NOTHING, NADA. I am so thankful I decided to buy land, I am happy & glad I made it a priority, even if I lived like a "bum" for a while, I was CONTENT, had all I needed & saved my money. To this day my now-wife likes to tell the story about how she dated what appeared to be a near-homeless guy who didn't give a rip where he lived and was content living like a broke bachelor. If someone makes it a priority, it's sure do-able and incredibly rewarding.
 
I was born and raised in Iowa, have family that farmed around Eldora area and Batavia on my dads side.
Mom's side farmed around the Brooks / Corning area in Adams County.

Some of the family we kind of lost touch with, I would have gave my right arm to have the farm in Adams County. Was sold when I was in the service.
When I bought ground in SE Iowa I felt kind of like an intruder. Now half the land is owned by people from out of state so I don't feel to bad, everyone including the guys from out of state have been great to deal with.
I have had more problems with a guy that owns ground next to me, (he lives 1.5 hrs away also) hunting on my ground when his relatives come down to hunt. We had a heart to heart all has been good since.

I also have a great neighbor who lives very close who always keeps an eye on things.

There are a lot of people who hunt and would love to have ground that can't afford it but they have gotten some good work from those guys from out of state with money.

BOWDUDE
 
BOWDUDE said:
I have had more problems with a guy
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You know.... I probably know, in some way, 300 guys through-out the state & other states that own land for hunting.
For every 300 guys I know that own land, 300 out of 300 have the major concern, stories, worries & stress with people: Trespassing, breaking the law, poaching, harassing their land, being jerks, blasting everything (and essentially ruining the hard work of management folks have done), theft, shed stealing, etc, etc. It's sad how vast the problems are- there's just no escaping it. I don't care what state you're in, what county, how many acres- big or small. It's sad how many crooks, thieves and poachers thrive in every neighborhood.
Out of all the concerns land owners have: rain fall, paying the bills, having big bucks around, managing, planting successful plots, etc- the PEOPLE element is by far, no question, the #1 problem & concern I hear ALL THE TIME.
 
Sligh1 said:
You know.... I probably know, in some way, 300 guys through-out the state & other states that own land for hunting.
For every 300 guys I know that own land, 300 out of 300 have the major concern, stories, worries & stress with people: Trespassing, breaking the law, poaching, harassing their land, being jerks, blasting everything (and essentially ruining the hard work of management folks have done), theft, shed stealing, etc, etc. It's sad how vast the problems are- there's just no escaping it. I don't care what state you're in, what county, how many acres- big or small. It's sad how many crooks, thieves and poachers thrive in every neighborhood.
Out of all the concerns land owners have: rain fall, paying the bills, having big bucks around, managing, planting successful plots, etc- the PEOPLE element is by far, no question, the #1 problem & concern I hear ALL THE TIME.
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Very true, every year it seems like I find a stand on my property. Last year, I found two ladder stands and a couple mineral licks.

I honestly, don't get how people feel comfortable doing that. I would not only feel bad, but would be nervous as hell that somebody would catch me!
 
I would love to own some timber/crp ground in Iowa that I could make my own sanctuary. If I did own ground, I would be out there ALL THE TIME! :p
 
This is why we all need to band together and work with our legistors next season to try to add some more teeth to Iowa trespassing law. We have such a problem now because the penalty is minimal -we need to change that.
 
Shot gun season around here makes you regret even having land. The crap neighbors put up is unreal. I wish the state would ban party hunting. . Its been to the point we have talked about just flatting the timbers with a cat so they will go else where.It wouldnt be fair for the next generation.Out of the area hunters they know when your back and hunt your land when your not around. In my book its just not worth owing it unless you live on it .Maybe thats just this area too.
 
gunrunr said:
This is why we all need to band together and work with our legistors next season to try to add some more teeth to Iowa trespassing law. We have such a problem now because the penalty is minimal -we need to change that.
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Agreed!
End of this hunting season & get working on this?
 
gunrunr said:
This is why we all need to band together and work with our legistors next season to try to add some more teeth to Iowa trespassing law. We have such a problem now because the penalty is minimal -we need to change that.
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It needs changed maybe like a 3 strike program 3rd time jail.
 
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