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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You signed the lease in April and haven't set foot on the property since. If that sounds familiar, you're already behind — because the best stretch for learning new ground …
Here's a truth most gear roundups skip: on a private lease, the backpack matters more than on public land. From a sub-$40 daypack to a meat-hauler frame, here are 7 …
Mississippi isn't just a deer-hunting state — it's a deer-hunting machine. With a herd of roughly 1.75 million white-tailed deer on a land base smaller than Missouri or Iowa, the …
Here is an uncomfortable truth about hunting leases: the asking price is whatever the landowner thinks they can get. There is no sticker price — so here are six quick …
Here is the uncomfortable truth most hunters and most landowners share: almost nobody negotiates a hunting lease well. The hunter either pays the sticker price out of politeness or walks …
Right now, in the first week of July, there is a mature buck on your lease living the most predictable life he will live all year. He wakes up in …
Here is the uncomfortable truth about late-season whitetail hunting: the guy who climbs down at 9 a.m. shivering almost never killed the buck. The buck moved at 10:40, after he …
Tennessee hunters took roughly 168,000 whitetails last season out of a herd near 900,000 — with legal Sunday hunting and lease prices that still undercut the Midwest. Here's what a …
Two landowners, two nearly identical 150-acre tracts. One signs a hunting lease for $1,200 a year; the other, three states away, signs for $6,000 — and has a waiting list…
Ask ten landowners what their hunting ground is worth and you will get ten different numbers — most of them pulled out of thin air. One neighbor swears he gets …
