School me On Texas Whitetail Leases

[SUD1988]

I know nothing about these. Do you pay an annual fee and get the chance to shoot a few deer?

What would it usually cost to shoot a mediocre buck and some does every year?

Also can multiple people go in on the lease? Like me and some buddies?

 

[257WM]

Lease or paid hunt? You mentioned lease but your comments kinda lead to a paid hunt.

 

[LostArra]

Corn
Cameras
Cash

Past that, rules vary

 

[SUD1988]

Just trying to figure out how to hunt more. Maybe just a paid hunt would be a better option than a lease agreement.

 

[yfarm]

Cost is based on acreage, number of hunters and quality of the deer population for season leases, be careful with day leases. My current lease restricts hunters from shooting bucks under age 4-5, violations result in lease termination. Allowed one trophy and two cull bucks/year, for the first 4 years no trophy bucks were allowed to be taken and the previous lease holder shot everything male off the ranch. After time we now have nice 8-10 pt bucks taken every year.
Owners, managers or leasees may be responsible for blinds, feeders and feed
Generally there will be a lease holder or manager that selects and deals with hunters
My experience is that conflicts are minimized when the hunters know each other personally before getting on the lease. Depending on the lease holder/ manager it can be a great experience or a free for all cluster. All it takes is one or two that do what they want to ruin it for all if management doesn’t rein them in or throw them off the lease. Example- quiet time is 3pm- dusk, you are in the blind hunting, one individual drives around in his truck “road hunting,drives right by blinds with hunters. The deer know what engine noise, headlights mean. Your evening hunt is done with the actions of one person. We have a group text and every hunter posts what blind they are in so no excuses.

 

[Mike D Texas]

I’ve been out of the lease game for 8 years now, but expect $15/acre for a mediocre lease that probably has too many people on it and a chance at a 130 class buck. It may or may not have a camp house or utilities f or campers. To get into a quality lease you are looking at $22-$25/acre and up.

There are some stupidly expensive l,eases but they are usually game rich, with whitetail, exotics, turkeys, dove and pigs. And you will likely have a respectable chance at a 150+ whitetail. They usually have nice accommodations like a ranch house or cabin plus hookups for campers.

Bag limits vary by county and whether or not the ranch is under a state regulated management program.

Feeding is mandatory (except maybe in east Texas) so make sure you are ok with that and figure that cost in.

It’s becoming ridiculously expensive to hunt in Texas. Figuring travel, blinds, feed and other expenses we used to spend on average $6k per year to be on a lease where the largest buck I ever shot there in 8 years was 131”.


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[SUD1988]

I’ve been out of the lease game for 8 years now, but expect $15/acre for a mediocre lease that probably has too many people on it and a chance at a 130 class buck. It may or may not have a camp house or utilities f or campers. To get into a quality lease you are looking at $22-$25/acre and up.

There are some stupidly expensive l,eases but they are usually game rich, with whitetail, exotics, turkeys, dove and pigs. And you will likely have a respectable chance at a 150+ whitetail. They usually have nice accommodations like a ranch house or cabin plus hookups for campers.

Bag limits vary by county and whether or not the ranch is under a state regulated management program.

Feeding is mandatory (except maybe in east Texas) so make sure you are ok with that and figure that cost in.

It’s becoming ridiculously expensive to hunt in Texas. Figuring travel, blinds, feed and other expenses we used to spend on average $6k per year to be on a lease where the largest buck I ever shot there in 8 years was 131”.


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I actually found out my brother in law used to have a lease. They got out of it because the time, money, and outcomes weren’t worth it. It sounds like I just need to go the route of doing paid hunts if I want to go down there.

 

[PopNFresh]

it's tough here, not as much public hunting land as you'd expect for a state as large as ours. anything near major cities is tough during the big seasons.
the lack of public options really puts lots of demand for leasing property.