November 4, 2025

25 Reasons You Should Have A Hunting Lease

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    The source, an article titled "25 Reasons You Should Have A Hunting Lease" from Base Camp Leasing, strongly advocates for securing a private hunting lease as an alternative to buying land, hunting on public ground, or hunting by permission. The article systematically outlines numerous benefits of leasing, emphasizing that it offers greater flexibility, less financial responsibility, and the ability to better control hunting pressure and wildlife management compared to other options. It also highlights how leasing through Base Camp Leasing can help hunters secure access to better quality ground, allow for selective hunting partnerships, and provide strong liability protection for all involved parties. Ultimately, the text promotes leasing as a way to improve safety, reduce surprise factors, and attain better long-term hunting opportunities.

    By: Josh Honeycutt

    Why you should secure a hunting lease through Base Camp Leasing.

    Hunting is like most things in life — you get out what you put into it. That’s true for all things outdoors. Unfortunately, some forms of hunting come with an increased number of surprise factors, especially when hunting by permission or on public lands. In contrast, while there are still unknowns and no guarantees with private hunting leases, fewer of the aforementioned risks are in play. As such, here are reasons why you should get a hunting lease through Base Camp Leasing.

    1. You Can’t Afford to Buy Hunting Land

    Land prices continue to skyrocket, and as prices per acre continue to climb, it becomes even more unattainable for some hunters to purchase hunting land. This creates a barrier of entry to private land hunting that, without hunting leases, would otherwise completely prevent many individuals from accessing good hunting opportunities. Fortunately, lease hunters can enjoy most of the same benefits as hunters who are also landowners.

    1. Better Flexibility Than Buying Hunting Land

    Land ownership is a long-term endeavor (i.e.: multiple years). It’s rarely a short-term situation. Therefore, one-year hunting lease contracts (but with first right of renewal for the hunter) provide better flexibility than buying hunting land. This allows the hunter to make necessary changes and find new hunting properties much faster and with less headache.

    1. Less Responsibility Than Owning Hunting Land

    Leasing hunting land comes with much less responsibility than owning hunting land. The former has far fewer ties between you and the land. If you want, it can be short-term (one year). Oftentimes, the latter option (owning land) comes with more responsibilities, such as taxes, mortgages, property repairs, and much more. Leasing is much simpler and more streamlined.

    1. Crafting Better Relationships with Landowners

    Long-term hunting leases, which are made possible by Base Camp Leasing, help hunters craft better relationships with landowners. First, because landowners are being compensated, they don’t feel like they’re being taken advantage of. Secondly, long-term leases provide time for hunters to build these relationships.

    1. Choosing Your Hunting Partners Selectively

    Hunting public land, and private land by permission, doesn’t give you the needed leverage to regulate who else hunts the property. That said, by leasing a property, it allows you to decide who else is on the property, and who your hunting partners will be.

    1. Expecting Cost-Sharing Opportunities

    Hunters who hunt on their own are left with 100% of the bill. In contrast, those who lease with other hunters are able to share the load. This cost-sharing opportunity — including the lease price itself — is good for everyone involved and makes hunting private land more affordable.

    1. Locating the Right Type of Hunting Lease

    Land-buying opportunities are far more limited than leasing. Furthermore, by keeping tabs on available Base Camp Leasing listings, hunters can be patient and wait for the right property. Doing so gives them the power to idle until they locate the right type of hunting lease for them.

    1. Selecting a Hunting Property That Checks All the Right Boxes

    It’s important to select a hunting property that checks all the right boxes. Property size, property layout, habitat composition, access directions, distance from home, and much more — there are dozens of variables that impact whether or not a property is the right one. While a particular lease might not be the correct choice for one person, it might be perfect for another.

    1. Finding the Exact Right Lease Location for You

    Speaking of the right lease, it’s also crucial to find the right lease location. Need something in a specific state, county, or within a certain distance from home? Considering those parameters, scan for a lease that fits your needs.

    1. Securing an Out-of-State Place to Hunt

    Many hunters already have hunting land access close to home. Generally, they don’t have an out-of-state hunting spot, though. Therefore, it’s possible to secure an out-of-state place to hunt through Base Camp Leasing’s many listings. Merely pick the state(s) of interest, and begin scrolling through available leases. Choose the one that fits your needs.

    1. You’re Tired of Hunting Permission Ground

    Hunting private land by permission is good while it lasts. That said, in most situations, the negatives outweigh the positives. Moody landowners. Other hunters. No guarantee of continued access. Lacking contractual and insurance protections. Constantly having to find new places. There are many downsides to hunting private land by permission. Over time, it’s easy to become fatigued with hunting permission ground.

    1. You’re Tired of Hunting Public Land

    Public land is a great thing. It offers an untold number of opportunities to thousands, if not millions, of hunters each year. That said, experiencing repeated negative encounters with other hunters, hunting pressure, diminished deer herds, and more, can lead to poor outcomes that hunters grow tired of.

    1. Increasing Your Available Acreage Access

    Want more hunting land but can’t seem to gain permission, locate quality public land, or save up to buy a property? Consider leasing to increase your available acreage access. Plus, accomplish that objective while gaining that land at a leasing price-point, which is certainly affordable on many budgets.

    1. Gaining Access to Better Ground

    Public lands and permission properties can offer great hunting, but most do not. Therefore, leasing private land — which regulates the hunting pressure — allows you to gain access to better ground. Other than owning a prime piece of hunting land, leasing is the best way to manage land over the long haul and improve its wildlife and hunting quality.

    1. Hunting Bigger Bucks

    While there’s no guarantee that a particular lease can or will produce a mature buck, on the average, leases tend to provide opportunities to hunt bigger deer. That’s something that most hunters aspire to, even if that’s less important than other motivations.

    1. Experiencing Better Buck Age Structures

    More times than not, long-term hunting leases have better deer population densities and buck age structures than public lands, permission properties, and short-term leases. Thus, hunters can experience better buck age structures by leasing lands long-term.

    1. Better Controlling Your Hunting Land

    Those who hunt public and by permission have little to no control over what happens on the property. Of course, the only way to completely regulate most factors is to own the ground. That said, leasing is the next-best option for managing habitat, wildlife, hunting pressure, and more. This allows you to make the wildlife and hunting the best these can be.

    1. Regulating Hunting Pressure on Your Lease

    As previously noted, regulating hunting pressure on your lease is another benefit. That said, it’s worth mentioning as a standalone reason. Without question, imposing harvest self-control is important for elevating buck age structure, optimizing deer population densities, and more. By leasing a hunting property, hunters can better manage hunting pressure and the quality of the hunting in the area.

    1. Being More Patient in Hunt Plans

    Oftentimes, hunting on lands that other hunters have free reign on adds another variable — pressure. Furthermore, there’s a risk of other hunters harvesting the deer you’re after … before you do. Because of these things, leasing your own property allows you to be more patient with hunt plans. Furthermore, being patient means you can wait for just the right time to hunt.

    1. Stewarding Over Deer and Other Wildlife

    Perhaps the most rewarding part of hunting isn’t filling tags. Rather, it’s stewarding over deer and other wildlife that call your hunting lease home. Being able to enhance the habitat and wildlife on the property, make improvements to the landscape (as approved by the landowner), and ultimately, be the decisionmaker who gets the job done, are all key factors of a great situation.

    1. Micro-Tuning Habitat Management

    Habitat improvement is a very important work. Leaving the property better than you found it is the responsibility of every hunter. However, those who lease ground, and manage their own private land lease, tend to have more freedom and power to make effective changes to the landscape. Planting food plots, removing invasive species, and more, are key tasks to complete. Of course, always ensure it’s permitted by the landowner.

    1. Maintaining Long-Term Property Access

    Public lands and permission properties are never guarantees. Short-term leases are guarantees, but not of the good kind. These guarantee you DON’T have long-term property access. In contrast, and as a much better scenario, Base Camp Leasing listings provide opportunities to maintain long-term relationships with property you develop over time.

    1. Reducing Liability Concerns for All Parties

    Permission properties without contracts and insurance policies create liability risks for both the landowners and hunters alike. Conversely, by leasing through and with Base Camp Leasing, it reduces, nay, completely removes the liability concerns for all parties involved. A $5 million liability insurance policy protects the landowner and hunters from liability-related concerns.

    1. Enjoying Fewer Surprise Factors

    Hunting by permission, and on public lands, comes with more uncontrollable factors. Other hunters. Property management. These and more can pose surprise factors you want no part of. With your own private land lease, the odds of enjoying fewer unplanned factors or interruptions are much better.

    1. Improving Overall Safety Factors

    Properly listed, contracted, regulated, and insured hunting leases improve the overall safety element of hunting. Base Camp Leasing maximizes safety via the above means, plus other key methods, such as limiting the maximum number of hunters, including exclusive hunter access in the contract, and more. Ultimately, it’s safer than hunting by permission, where you rarely know what other hunters are doing, and on public land, where the same is even truer.

    Lease with Base Camp Leasing

    Are all the public lands near you overrun? Maybe you’re tired of hunting by permission? Or you haven’t saved up to buy that hunting land? Consider a hunting lease instead. Check out how the leasing process works. Sign up for a Free, Fork Horn, 8-Point, or Wall Hanger membership. Then, start scrolling through available hunting leases and choose the one that’s right for you.

    Frequently asked questions

    The core advantages of hunting leases over owning land or relying on public access or hunting by permission center around affordability and flexibility (versus ownership) and control, quality, and security (versus public/permission hunting).

    The inclusion of this insurance, along with contracts and regulations, helps to reduce, or completely remove, the liability concerns for all parties involved, which is a significant advantage over permission properties that lack such protections

    Leasing hunting land offers several fundamental advantages over the commitment and responsibility associated with buying land, primarily focusing on affordability, financial flexibility, and reduced burden.

    Both landowners and hunters involved in a hunting lease arrangement are protected primarily through contracts, regulations, and liability insurance, especially when the lease is facilitated through a service like Base Camp Leasing

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