Hunting Permission: Let’s talk Price

Yes I’ve heard of the various lease terms given to the cooperatives... check the fine print, preferably with a lawyer. The terms look quite good but the fine print is not so good. It is a lease, endable by the .gov with notice... and that’s not 50 years of notice.

coyoteking said:
We wanted to buy some of the previously cultivated land on the edge of our local pfra pasture but the province decided to sign a 50 year lease with the newly formed cooperative instead. All the other pastures in the area went the same route. The natives will never be taking over any of these pastures in the south.
Click to expand...
 
And with the conversion to coop (rancher run) pastures, things have changed a fair bit for hunters. My nearest ex PF pasture used to open the gates on a random date when all the cows were out to allow hunting. Now the gates are locked and all is posted no hunting... word has it that the local “coop” has decided to keep it for themselves and buddies. Won’t be long before pay for use. For taxpayer owned land. Not so sure we are headed in the right direction in Saskatchewan.
 
Buck_Up said:
Call your insurance company and inquire if the premiums would be higher if you charge people to hunt on the land. It's about risk, or their perception of risk.
Golf? I do not equate the two sports. I see hunting as part of our heritage in Canada. Not free access necessarily, it will always have some costs, but perhaps I can clarify... I do not want hunting to turn into an elite sport where only the upper crust can afford to participate.
Click to expand...

Not charging to hunt, charging for access to the land.
 
Charging for access to land during hunting season, who are you kidding.
You are proposing to charge for access to game animals, plain and simple.
 
Generally the hunters are polite and well educated, they ask for permission, for spring turkey hunt and Canada geese, i give no permission as my sons, grandkids and i just do the hunting .
 
Last edited:
Peace River said:
Ummm... been awake much in the last couple of years on the status of PFRA pastures? They don’t exist any more. They are run by local ranchers on a temporary basis until the natives take them over as TLE land... the province has been selling piles of marginal land on the edges of the provincial pastures, only a matter of time before the rest goes.
Click to expand...



My buddies wife shot her Mulie buck in the Montrose pasture 2 years ago. I was awake for that, since I'm the one who pushed it out to her.

FYI here's a quote from the Gov't web site with some facts and maps for you.

The leases will be similar to those offered to patrons of federal community pastures, which have been transitioning to patron control since 2012. The leases will allow continued access for hunting, including the exercise of rights and traditional uses by First Nations and Métis communities.
Click to expand...

https://leaderpost.com/business/agriculture/sask-pastures-program-axed-in-provincial-budget

https://www.saskatchewan.ca/business/agriculture-natural-resources-and-industry/agribusiness-farmers-and-ranchers/crown-lands/agricultural-crown-land/saskatchewan-pastures-program

http://www.publications.gov.sk.ca/details.cfm?p=75854

Peace River said:
And with the conversion to coop (rancher run) pastures, things have changed a fair bit for hunters. My nearest ex PF pasture used to open the gates on a random date when all the cows were out to allow hunting. Now the gates are locked and all is posted no hunting... word has it that the local “coop” has decided to keep it for themselves and buddies. Won’t be long before pay for use. For taxpayer owned land. Not so sure we are headed in the right direction in Saskatchewan.
Click to expand...

So you reckon because the pasture closest to you is being monopolized it's the same with them all?
You might wanna bring that up with someone in power.
I can go hunt the pasture up the road from me this morning if I like.
 
I refuse to play the permission game. In turn I have pretty much given up deer hunting. I save my money and time up and spend it hunting sheep and goats. Not near the same success rate I had with deer but about 100x more satisfying for myself personally. When I see someone brag about the size of a deer they shot in a field on private land, I think about how I watched a man in a wheel chair do the same thing.
 
the spank said:
I can’t believe you’re still here trying to entertain your pay more to play agenda on everyone else. Do you feel the rest of the hunting society owes you because you hunt on daddy’s land and try to make it sound like your quarter section is somehow giving all the big game species in SK a place to live, prosper and seed the rest of SK from? Last year you were trying to sell us all on buying hunting opportunity time shares from you by financing your high fence ventures. If you can’t afford to pay your land taxes and/or projects you want to complete stop coming on here and trying to plead your case to charge to hunt your “quarter section private preserve”.
Click to expand...

I think a lot of people who viewed this thread were thinking the same thing.
Like similar threads, this one has served whatever minor usefulness it could have achieved and deserves a lock.
 
Good Day All: My neighbor owns the land that i hunt on. To show my appreciation for this i cut his grass around his grain bins(Right next door) and plow his snow(at his home farm across the road).
I have a 75 acre woodlot all to my self, he wont let anyone else in there and directs them to his other properties.

Its the least i can do for his generosity.
I still have ***hole trespassers to deal with, mostly city people who think they have a right to trespass.

Z
 
In my area of Mb rates are 40-120 daily for waterfowl. Avg about 75$. Big game is much harder to get. I would say seasonal rates of about $1000 per piece (1/2 section or whatever)
 
While blaming city folk for trespassing fits some stereotypes, my experience is that it frequently is the good old country boy beer drinking set that drives across fields and tries to spook game from little patches of bush, yup, the farmer's neighbors.
Unfortunate, but the losers are among us.
 
saskbooknut said:
While blaming city folk for trespassing fits some stereotypes, my experience is that it frequently is the good old country boy beer drinking set that drives across fields and tries to spook game from little patches of bush, yup, the farmer's neighbors.
Unfortunate, but the losers are among us.
Click to expand...

In my experience that is true. The guys who travel to hunt are a little more cautious and likely to abide by rules. But the local guy who feels some sort proprietorship in the area is generally the problem.
 
I'm thinking that a box of chocolates or bottle of whiskey to a landowner who has become a friend, is not a payment for access.
The landowner sought nothing in exchange for access.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom