Casey Cutshall has spent a lifetime chasing whitetails and wild turkeys through the woods and fields of Frederick County, Maryland, and built HuntLease after years of watching ground that was once open on a handshake disappear behind No Trespassing signs. Writes here on lease pricing, landowner liability and the practical side of getting access to private land.
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Rural land almost never cash-flows like a rental house. Anyone who tells you a hunting lease will make the mortgage payment on a freshly bought 200-acre tract is selling you …
A deer rifle at the muzzle runs 140 to 165 decibels, and a single shot can cause permanent hearing loss. Here are six hunting ear protection setups, from budget plugs …
Here is a small piece of gear that changes how you hunt a lease more than its $30 price tag suggests: a binocular harness. Not the flimsy neck strap your …
The text came in on a Tuesday in August, three weeks before the archery opener: nine words that ended three seasons on the best 240 acres I ever hunted…
Here is a hard truth about hunting a lease: the single piece of gear that most often ends your sit early is not your bow, your optics, or your boots. …
Ask most people what a hunting lease should cost and they reach for one number: acreage. It's the wrong first question — what's growing on the ground drives the price …
Most hunters don't lose a season on opening morning. They lose it in July — when the lease is still unsigned, the trail cameras are still in the box, and …
Here is an uncomfortable truth about lease hunting: you can spend a thousand dollars on ground, sit forty hours for one clean shot, and still lose the whole animal because …
Ask ten hunters to name the best whitetail state in America and Missouri will be on nearly every list — usually right after Iowa, and usually with a caveat about …
More deer walk off because a hunter fidgeted, dropped a call, or climbed down early than because a buck ever winded a bare hand — cold, numb hands quietly end …
