So if you could buy anywhere as a non-resident after trophy deer

Ben.MN/WI said:
It is a lot easier to work on land projects when the property is less than 30 minutes from home. Driving many hours to get to a property makes it pretty difficult to do too much work, especially if you are married with kids.

I'd cast a wide net within a reasonable driving distance from home and pick the best in that area. One other thing I would consider is what other opportunities are available on that land. The other critters (bears, turkeys, pheasants, ducks, fishing, etc.) can be quite a bonus if the deer hunting declines for one reason or another.
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Absolutely…in a perfect world. A lot of us live in places where 30 minutes from home Is still subdivisions or $20,000/acre ground. That’s my world. I need to go at least an hour and a half to get where recreational ground is even in consideration.
 
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Howboutthemdawgs said:
Absolutely…in a perfect world. A lot of us live in places where 30 minutes from home Is still subdivisions or $20,000/acre ground. That’s my world. I need to go at least an hour and a half to get where recreational ground is even in consideration.
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That's something I absolutely have going for me and where I live. It takes half an hour of driving to find subdivisions, or gas, or groceries, etc. Civilization is the rare thing, not the normal. I like it!
 
The 30 min was just a suggestion if you need look an hour away that’s fine but when you start looking at commutes much longer than that owning the land at first sounds like a great idea but that commute to enjoy it starts to really suck. The farther away it is the more it sucks. Some guys pull it off and it doesn’t seem to bother them but really they are the exception so try and look as close to home as you can afford.
 
b116757 said:
The 30 min was just a suggestion if you need look an hour away that’s fine but when you start looking at commutes much longer than that owning the land at first sounds like a great idea but that commute to enjoy it starts to really suck. The farther away it is the more it sucks. Some guys pull it off and it doesn’t seem to bother them but really they are the exception so try and look as close to home as you can afford.
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I'd love to do that, but the kind of hunting I'm looking for isn't great anywhere close to me. That's why I had to buy 10.5 hours away. Besides, my kids love the road trip. They think of it as a vacation. Don't get me wrong. I'd love to have the hunting my Kentucky property has within an hour or so from home, but that just doesn't happen here. I can't hardly drive an hour from here and even see deer. The hunting around me is successful if you saw A deer.
 
That is not a place I would care to live but we all can’t live in a rural setting I guess.
 
b116757 said:
That is not a place I would care to live but we all can’t live in a rural setting I guess.
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I'm talking about even the rural areas close to me. I grew up an hour from where I live, and it's still rural. My mom still lives there. They see deer every now and then, but mostly at night. The people down here shoot a deer just because they hardly ever see them like it's a novelty.
 
West_Fork said:
NEVADA! No one wants to live here, but the deer are freaking huge.
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I'll be out there in a few weeks with my muzzleloader. But it took me 9 years of points and I still only had 30% odds for the tag i drew.. They dont have landowner tags for "Blue Collar W2" type folks do they?

Pretty hard sell to buy land that you might be able to hunt once a decade and even then, you're probably hunting the public more!

I'll say this though, wont be staying in a hotel or airbnb since it's so unpopulated in much of the state!

PS: @West_Fork , if ya got any hot tips for muleys in the 6's, i'm all ears! Haven't been able to get there for a long weekend of scouting like i planned.
 
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Wind Gypsy said:
I'll be out there in a few weeks with my muzzleloader. But it took me 9 years of points and I still only had 30% odds for the tag i drew.. They dont have landowner tags for "Blue Collar W2" type folks do they?

Pretty hard sell to buy land that you might be able to hunt once a decade and even then, you're probably hunting the public more!

I'll say this though, wont be staying in a hotel or airbnb since it's so unpopulated in much of the state!
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Why I don't hunt in Nevada ...

The money is in selling the tags, not filling them. What unit are you hunting?
I watched the governor's elk tag sell for over $350k this year. Blue collars need not apply.

Any land that can claim depradation is worth a premium. I have seen 5 acre irrigation systems installed on crap soil just for deer tags.
 
West_Fork said:
Why I don't hunt in Nevada ...

The money is in selling the tags, not filling them. What unit are you hunting?
I watched the governor's elk tag sell for over $350k this year. Blue collars need not apply.

Any land that can claim depradation is worth a premium. I have seen 5 acre irrigation systems installed on crap soil just for deer tags.
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Seems like residents can still get out a little more frequent at least, maybe not with primo tags. I have 10 elk points and it seems im probably more likely to apply for another 20 years and never draw than I am to draw!

I just edited the post you responded to, i have the 6s muzzleloader tag. Haven't figured out where I'll start yet, thought maybe in the independence mts or maybe even closer to some of the winter range hoping for some more visible resident deer that didnt migrate higher. Need to do plenty of last minute research yet..
 
Couple tracts of land 30 minutes or less from me…just looked

100 acres…$11 million

117 acres…$6.2 million but unfortunately under contract

120 acres…$30 million but it has a house so you don’t have to worry about that which is good

150 acres…$13 million

394 acres…$18.5 million
 
Any thread where people end up going on collateral thought expeditions is a win.

Was surprised at all the KY love on the first page. Ive yet to crack the code at where the giants are there. SD, OK and NV were more surprise ones. The ME one, sarcastic or not, was another outlier.

Absolutely agree with "the right neighborhood".....just dammed on how a fella figures that out. One thing I noted but it wasnt really put out there was buy great and make amazing.

I live in western NY....and own land here. There are some plusses and minuses. I do not hunt my property here much despite being 15 min away. Like the hypothetical thread ask here......I hunt it on the right conditions and just let it assume equity. I put in a few weekends a year for deer chores and thats about it. Yup- Trophy obsessed....even in an area where there arent many shooters per my standards. This is also where the thread ask comes from.....I have a pretty good job here, my kids are a HS senior and a local college sophomore so the urge to move is near but not now. The desire for bigger deer and a more land investment out side of NY are surging with me. Hence the ask......

Great replies.... keep them coming
 
Howboutthemdawgs said:
Couple tracts of land 30 minutes or less from me…just looked

100 acres…$11 million

117 acres…$6.2 million but unfortunately under contract

120 acres…$30 million but it has a house so you don’t have to worry about that which is good

150 acres…$13 million

394 acres…$18.5 million
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100 acres for 11,000,000 equals $110,000 per acre. What kind of land is that?
 
SwampCat said:
100 acres for 11,000,000 equals $110,000 per acre. What kind of land is that?
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I’m sure development potential. I live amongst lala land though so who knows. I saw a 3 bed 3 bath 3600 sqft renovated log cabin on 40 acres for $10 mil just a minute ago.

The moral of my story, and unfortunately a fair amount of us, is 30 minutes isn’t doable. An hour isn’t doable for a lot of us too. Trust me, I’d live in the middle of nowhere in a second, but that isn’t in my cards for a long while
 
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Pushing $5000 an acre in my county in SE Kansas higher closer to KC you get. Just across the line in Mo land runs a bit higher per acre typically.
 
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