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powerstroke73L

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Anybody ever get involved with one of these deals? Their ads run in every fish and wildlife digest it seems. $40K gets you 15 acres with lake frontage, etc... I'd be interested in a little more land if I had people to go in with. Hell if you could get 5 guys it'd be $8K a person and 3 acres of ground per man. You wouldn't really need to improve the land right away either-just put up a cheap pole barn as a bunkhouse with a woodstove and use battery powered lights and camp toilets. It sounds good in theory anyway-anyone own a piece like this?
 
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Wow-even better. I wouldn't really care about the distance as long as it was within 8-10 hours of Northwestern NJ.
 
I have been looking at this site

Land and Farm


I have a good friend who now has two young sons, and then there are my two young son, I figure in the long run we would save a ton of $ if we were to invest in some upstate acrage with a cabin.
 
I've been looking for the last 11/2. Dollar for dollar you are best off in Maine. Almost half the price of NY (Central area) and you could buy alot of land and also hunt the paper copany land (close to 3million arces). Plenty of room to hunt. The downfall is the drive, from central NJ to the Moosehead lake area its about 8-9hr drive. Also the winters play a HUGE outcome on the deer. In the past if they had 2 or 3 easy winters the deer hunting was good, if it was a bad winter or back to back bad or late snow the outcome was horrible. i think last years late snow was bad up there, I think the outcome of this season is estimated to be 40% of last years total.
For NY, look at the western part of the state, I read that 60% of big bucks are taken in that part of the state. I looked into the Tug Hill part of NY, and the only problem I see is that it gets hammered with ALOT of snow, that will take it's toll on deer
 
Tug hill area gets hammered by hunters and snow.. Western Ny has more deer for sure. Maine is great but too far for me to take alot of weekend trips. Actually my house is for sale and we are moving to NYS Just North of Watkins Glenn so it won't matter for me soon I hope..
 
Land in Steuben county, NY (Buffalostink is right on the money), went for $1K/acre two years ago. Probably going for $800/acre now with the slump. ;) Property taxes are also pretty minimal. Steuben is 5-6 hours from South Jersey (2.5 hours from Scranton).

Land in Northern NY is even cheaper, but the hunting is not as good.
 
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Never really thought about Maine-always figured it was way too far. 10 hours is a long way but I guess if you could take long weekends off and drive up Fridays (leave at 4 AM), prep in the afternoon, hunt all day Saturday and Sunday, and leave in the early afternoon on Monday it could work.
 
Maine is a hike, trust me I did it for 15 yrs. With trying to juggle work, family life, etc. It would only be possible for me to do NY. Also, in NY you can hunt on Sunday. That was the factor that made my dession. I could leave on Friday after dinner, hunt Sat. & 1/2 Sunday be home for Sunday dinner
 
maine is a different world. i want a piece up there bad. sit on it and hunt it. either by camper or trailer and slowly build a great cabin for my retirement. im only 29 if i start now i will be done when im ready for sure and paid for.
 
It seems like good hunting property is not such a great investment and good investment property is not always the best for hunting.

My logic doesn't seem to hold for NJ though. I see quality bucks coming out of little pieces of land in Monmouth all the time and these little pieces are surrounded by developments and corporations. Would I call these little tracks of land great hunting pieces, No! Great investments? Absolutely!
 
Stagg. If you can go for it. I'm 39 yrs old, been hunting Maine on and off since I was 17yrs old. In my late 20's I had an opptunity to buy 10 acres, brand new log cabin, 2 bedromms, loft,kitchen,bathroom on Moose river (right next to Moosehead lake) for $45,000. The same cabin is now going for 275,000. Trust me I still kick myself in my ass every Nov. when I ride past it. If you look hard you can and will find some great deals. I hunted from Moosehead lake area up tp Patten/Ashland area. The further north you go the cheaper the land.

If I could do it (but I can't) I would look by Patten/oxbow area. I always had good succes up that way.
 
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