D2Cat
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Ask him first then. Tell him why you suggest it. You're the one that has to deal with the BS!
BRYANT":12grk86w said:Sounds like your hands are kind of tied in this issue. I don't know about Georgia but in Okla. the land owner is the one who has to file charges, even if you have the hunting rights leased and catch someone trespassing land owner has to be willing to press charges. That is the way it was just a few years ago. I don't lease out or lease in so law may have changed but I don't think it has.
john250":o09k834f said:This guy might be willing to sell (to you)? He certainly doesn't act like an owner. Oh, and you have a lovely tolerant wife. So leave his wife to suffer. Explain to him that you'll plant the place in pines, which will suck up tons of carbon. Then plant peanuts. I love my salted peanuts.
Jogeephus":1ny7h02o said:D2Cat":1ny7h02o said:Do like bball said, tell him he's too late, it's already leased.
You pay the lease fee the landowner wants. Then you can lease it to who you want at what ever fee you choose. Then you're in control.
That wouldn't be ethical on my part. Good idea though but my job is to represent the landowner and not myself. Just think what he might think if he learned I subleased his property. He'd be pizzed. I know I would.
callmefence":3lkeea59 said:Jogeephus":3lkeea59 said:D2Cat":3lkeea59 said:Do like bball said, tell him he's too late, it's already leased.
You pay the lease fee the landowner wants. Then you can lease it to who you want at what ever fee you choose. Then you're in control.
That wouldn't be ethical on my part. Good idea though but my job is to represent the landowner and not myself. Just think what he might think if he learned I subleased his property. He'd be pizzed. I know I would.
This is very common practice here. I have two grazing leases that I also have hunting leased.
I sublease the hunting. It's completely transparent and I mark up the hunting to cover the time spent checking and managing hunters..
Since most conflicts occur between the cattleman and the hunters it works very well.
A little tip to anyone leasing a place to hunters. Try to find a group that's not to local.
It solves the problem of them running the pasture every weekend
True Grit Farms":2itmx7v9 said:I look forward to hunting season every year, then I get to thinking about the poachers and people problems. And it kinda takes the wind out of my sails.
Jogeephus":29c54ffl said:True Grit Farms":29c54ffl said:I look forward to hunting season every year, then I get to thinking about the poachers and people problems. And it kinda takes the wind out of my sails.
Same here. I'm convinced that some hunters are kept in a box all year then come hunting season someone shakes the box up and turns them loose. Some of the complaints I hear are just mind boggling. Like a bunch of children. I had one poacher harrow up about a half acre of one of my hayfields then build a tree house in a tree in the hayfield. I took an escavator with a finger and plucked the tree out of the field and toted it to the property line and dumped it on the property he was supposed to be hunting on. He then erected a tower stand on the edge of my hayfield. A bale of hay somehow crushed this thing. Haven't had any more problems with this guy.
SJB":2evhmark said:Jo - did you tell the boss you thought it was a bad idea?
JWBrahman":372vjxjd said:Jogephus, it seems like you asked yourself the question? Is dealing with the BS worth the money you are getting to manage the land for a guy who has shown no interest in backing you up as his manager?
Illegal hunters cost farmers a fortune here every year. City kids drop each other off in the cane fields where they tear up the rows leave mountains of beer cans. You can spot them a mile away. Brand new shiny four wheelers, hunting outfits that cost more than my whole wardrobe, and they are scared to go more than 1/4 mile from the road.
We have the local winos and drunks roaming the woods during pecan season. They will steal just enough pecans to go buy another bottle of booze. You can put a bullet between my eyes if I ever hire one of them to work my pecan harvest. Your boss leases that land to that person and the stealing will only consume more and more of your time.