How isolated is too isolated

[bwoods11]

That’s an interesting purchase ? Good for them if they make some $$. I’m a little skeptical of buying WRP, but at the right price it can work out. I bet he makes money.

 

[Double Creek]

$1,283 an acre is very cheap, even for WRE land, especially if a duck flys over it. He probably took a gamble thinking with the right marketing he could make a quick profit.

I’m from the Mississippi delta area and very familiar with these island type tracks. I never was a fan of them. Nothing keeps the farmer from planting a food plot and killing everything.

 

[Bill]

But he might dump it for 50. Even so, it would have stimulated some!

Big 3 parcel auction happened a ways away here recently. Think the parcels went in 8K range (hunting land with a little income). Pretty sure another realtor office bought it.

Maybe he looses his butt. Which would suck for him. But the guy had the balls to try. I hope he wins.

And if he wins someone will cry fowl where is my fair share.

 

[bigboreblr]

Don't look at properties much, but never seen game camera pics on a listing before.

Wonder if they're really from that parcel. Good marketing ploy

 

[BenA]

Don't look at properties much, but never seen game camera pics on a listing before.

Wonder if they're really from that parcel. Good marketing ploy

It's pretty common now for listings, especially ones targeted for hunting to include those.

It looks like the place I walked; I remember that stand in the background. It would be pretty easy for a potential buyer to verify though. The pics are very recent and the rice bran piles should be easy to locate.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I think 99% of properties listed these days that are bigger than 5 acres have trail cam pics

 

[Native Hunter]

I think 99% of properties listed these days that are bigger than 5 acres have trail cam pics

Yes, and a lot of them don't seem all that impressive to me....

 

[Brian662]

Yes, and a lot of them don't seem all that impressive to me..

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[KY wild]

I think 99% of properties listed these days that are bigger than 5 acres have trail cam pics

I also wonder if the pics are actually from the advertised property, it is one way a property can be misrepresented like a used car.

 

[BenA]

I also wonder if the pics are actually from the advertised property, it is one way a property can be misrepresented like a used car.

I recognize the stand in one of the photos. It would be pretty easy to verify if a potential buyer went out there soon. One of the photos was from yesterday when it was listed, and the rice bran piles should be left.

 

[SwampCat]

Yes, and a lot of them don't seem all that impressive to me....

Could that be because most of us are working our asses off to have bucks like you have?

 

[SwampCat]

I recognize the stand in one of the photos. It would be pretty easy to verify if a potential buyer went out there soon. One of the photos was from yesterday when it was listed, and the rice bran piles should be left.

Saying the buck pics are legitimate. Deer season in LA already been open for a couple months and those bucks are still alive. Do you have equivalent sized bucks on your ground in KY?

It would worry me being an island of woods in an ocean of fields.

 

[Native Hunter]

Could that be because most of us are working our asses off to have bucks like you have?

And I’m right there laboring with you all the way to keep it going.

 

[BenA]

Saying the buck pics are legitimate. Deer season in LA already been open for a couple months and those bucks are still alive. Do you have equivalent sized bucks on your ground in KY?

It would worry me being an island of woods in an ocean of fields.

Yeah, that had me second guessing my decision not to buy it last year. I didn't really think bucks could get the age on them like that on that parcel the way Louisiana is and the way it's surrounded by fields and a road. I had one or two equivalent in Kentucky this year, but it was sporadic except for season opening and a couple days during peak seeking. I have a plan to combat that this year though.

 

[bigboreblr]

The properties I look at are condos in topsail nc and st Petersburg Florida.

Wife wants me to buy some land near work, but I think I'm going to need the cash more for her dream.

I put away the trail cameras labor day. Just use them for fun really. Mostly use pics to drum up interest to family and members at camp. Seeing moose is very nice, but seeing them too much at camp for my liking. Scares deer away and we got too many idiots. Someone gonna whack one with a transmitter. Hopefully not my camp.

 

[Telemark]

There is virtually no cover cropping in this area and the equipment used in this scale of operations leaves essentially no waste. It's pretty much a parking lot after the beans come off, and they're coming off pretty early. Season doesn't start until October, and farmers have to get the beans off before rains start.

Could you plant cover crops? If they are so concerned about profit margin, you might be able to get permission to plant something along the edges of the fields.

 

[BenA]

Could you plant cover crops? If they are so concerned about profit margin, you might be able to get permission to plant something along the edges of the fields.

Possibly, but I wouldn't want to in this case. The property edges are highly visible from a road that is easy to shoot from. I wouldn't want the deer close to the fields in the daytime. Even at night, down here, it's risky for deer to be in fields. From what I've experienced, deer down here don't act the same as in many areas. You don't really see deer out in fields like you do further north. It's kind of a shock to see deer out in fields as we make the drive north from Louisiana to Kentucky. It's a whole new world.

 

[SwampCat]

Possibly, but I wouldn't want to in this case. The property edges are highly visible from a road that is easy to shoot from. I wouldn't want the deer close to the fields in the daytime. Even at night, down here, it's risky for deer to be in fields. From what I've experienced, deer down here don't act the same as in many areas. You don't really see deer out in fields like you do further north. It's kind of a shock to see deer out in fields as we make the drive north from Louisiana to Kentucky. It's a whole new world.

Kind of a shock to me to see mature buck eating at a giant protein feeder in the middle of the day in the wide open like a milk cow at Dawgs place. If deer were that tame here, there wouldnt be a one left.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Wow, those are some pretty good bucks on cam. Heck of a deal for that. I would have to go into something like that full of pessimism and just happy if a buck squeaks through occasionally or i'd be a stress monster. Aint much out there for suitable hunting properties for $77k.

Really the pictures on the listing probably dont help the odds of future bad actors being jackwagons.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Don't look at properties much, but never seen game camera pics on a listing before.

If I see such a listing without deer pictures I assume one or multiple of the following are true:
1. Owner doesnt hunt or use cameras
2. No decent bucks are using the property
3. Realtor absolutely sucks at their job