Tips for getting permission on land

[cowboyup]

If y'all don't mind sharing them what are yalls tips and techniques for getting permission on land?

[Slim9797]

My advice is focus on one land owner. Hunt the hell out of his land. Try and get them all off of there. Put a serious dent in them and let the property owner mention how he's seeing a lot less hog sign and his pastures look good. And then tell him something like "well I'm willing to hunt some more, I just enjoy getting out and if I can help out by getting hogs gone that's awesome. Talk to your neighbors and let them know if they want some hogs gone id be willing to help" you'll rarely do any good by picking up the phone and calling land owners you don't know asking for permission to hunt. But if a fellow land owner calls and says "hey, these boys are straight up, their dogs didn't look at my cows, they're respectful of my land, and they catch a few hogs" you got a really good chance at getting on that place. No BS last weekend, we had dogs go 1.5 miles and ended up bayed on 1 of the 2 properties that we don't have permission on. We have permission all around this place, just not on it and we ended up bayed. Well we go to dogs without making a phone call(stupid move I know) and in the middle of hobbling that hog I hear someone tell "sheriffs are on their way" immediately I pull out my phone and call the neighboring property owner who we had hunted for that morning and told him where we were and what happened. He in turn called the person whose land we were on, told him we were good kids. And I ended up picking up those 2 pieces of property I was missing to hunt now. Ideally not how you want to do it but I'm just reaffirming the fact that land owner to land owner is your best shot.

[Kilawatts]

I agree with slim. Your reputation is everything keep that intact and you should do fine. The reputation of your dogs reflects you as well. The only time I approach a land owner directly is If I here they have a problem. But I will use the other land owners as references. Chances are if they are close they will know each other


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[Georgia-Hawgs]

Just ease in there late at night while everyone is asleep.  Just try to stay close to the dogs that way you can get everything back quiet as quick as possible.  Stay off of main trails and out of food plot areas as these are prime game Cam locations,  and the last thing you want is a land owner to have your picture.  If you happen to run across a camera you only have 2 options.  Option #1- take the camera. Option#2- only take the card out of it. I usually base this decision on weather or not I already have that camera in my collection.  Hope this helps...Good luck and happy hunting sir !

Haha , Just kidding, I think these guys have gave you some good advice, your best bet would be a trusted neighboring landowner. Also your appearance and character will go a long way, if I decide that I want to go  directly to the landowner, I will put on good clothes and try to represent myself the best way possible. heck I might even take a kid with me. who doesn't trust a kid. I hope anyone reading this will know that first paragraph was just a joke.  there's a lot more  hog hunters In Texas compared to Georgia, but I like to leave cards at all the local feed stores that I deal with. I like to get to know the feed store owner.  that way when the  farmers are in there talking about hogs tearing up their property the feed store owner will remember me and my cards and give it to whoever is complaining.