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Well despite tons of misinformation on difficulties purchasing land for recreation, and people discouraging me i will soon be the proud owner of 1/4 section of pure recreational paradise. Just need to sign papers.

The quarter has approx 40 acres open with a combination of popular and willow with a slow moving creek that runs through the property. I have hunted the land in previous years and there are the following animals:

1) lots of Moose
2) lots of deer up untill september then they move out
3) bear
4) coyotes
5) have seen wolf tracks
6) Lynx

This land has been a free for all for everyone for a number of years s previous owner never enforced trespassing. Their are numerous vehicle tracks throughout the property people looking for moose. Today i posted the only two entrances accessible by a vehicle and curious to see if that will be enough to keep trespassers out i posted a little prematurely but the land owner had no issue.

Eventually i will build a little cabin but seeing I live approx 30-minutes away I'm kind of starting to think of food plots. Does anyone have any suggestions on what i could try to keep deer in later in the year?

Im super excited!!! lots of ideas just wanting to see what other ideas people may have.

Thanks Guys!
 
Congrat's
We bought a 1/4 3-4 yrs ago that sounds alot like yours.60-80 acres in alfalfa,Creek running thru the whole quater.About 50 kms from are home, South west of Beaverlogde not far from the green zone.We have Moose,Elk,Deer etc.Even otters in the creek.We put up a small cabin on the creek,It is my Happy place! As far as posting it, it will keep some out but not all.In the time we have owned it not one person has asked to hunt on it.It is on a dead end road with no other access.Every year there are people hunting on it without permisson.
I always try to leave a few round bails for the game over the winter plus the alfalfa helps alot.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoy are's.
Good Luck And Enjoy!
 
This is a topic that excites me.:D In the last year I have bought 640 acres in two parcels. One quarter borders a tiny spring fed lake,holds a smaller shallower pond, 80 acres of absolutely native, gravel rich, bush covered glacial ridges and more saskatoon berries than I've ever seen in one spot. It is also the home of my 800 yard rifle range.:dancingbanana::dancingbanana: Both whitetail and mulies come through, and a cow moose and calf like standing around the 660 yard target and gongs.Waterfowl abound in the area, and there is a DU project basically on the other side of the road.
Perhaps due to its location close to historic Batoche,or perhaps due to the beginning of dymensia it's not hard to imagine the sounds of Metis fiddles or the sound of distant rifle and cannon fire.:onCrack: I'll be throwing up some sort of warmup/base camp/quasi clubhouse shack up out there.

The other recreational property is 3 quarters of coulie country, rolling grasslands bordering the Coteau (Fertile)Valley, and 1/2 mile from the provincial park. There is quite a bit of native grasslands, brush filled coulies and seeded tame pasture. A 215+ mulie was arrowed in the coulies a couple years ago. We couldn't find a big boy for my sons tag this year, but saw a couple dandy mules and a couple real decent WT bucks that gave us the slip.I got a picture of a bachlor group of 7 young mulie bucks. We filled 3 tags there, and my youngest daughter got her first kill which was a B&C gopher.:D We've seen a couple moose on the property, and one lonely looking antelope.
I've found the perfect spot for a 0 to 1200 yard range, then by switching directions another lane that goes 0 to 200 nothing to 700 then out to past a mile. Life is good, but it's gonna be great.:dancingbanana:
 
I did it about ten years ago, Best investment I ever made. Own three quarter sections of prime wildlife lands now, the really great thing is that it all borders my hunting partners' land and they each have similar amounts, so now we have 1600 acres or so to call our own. We manage the land as a group, and we all have access to each others land. The amount of wildlife has expanded a lot since we took over stewardship and planted a lot of the hay land to good forage. One rule we live by that makes the group thing work out well - bring anyone, send noone.
 
Congrats on the land purchase.We actually put gates with chains and locks on our quarter.In 3 years we have not had one problem.(knock on wood) The property is also posted every 100 yards as a dirt road does run right by the property.
Try different seeds as see what works best with your soil in the area.Last year I planted about a dozen peas (for us) as well as a dozen sunflower seeds for the birds and the wife planted a variety of flowers but nothing came up :confused:.I am not sure if the soil was too wet last year or the soil is of poor quality.the meadow this was planted on and where are trailer sits does look like an old field as there are rock piles along the two edges of it.A fellow down the road tried planting something the year before but nothing came up.Trail and error I guess.
 
Thats great advice and i appreciate the comments! I will look at testing the soil. I do plan this spring to put gate up at the only two entrance.
 
reb said:
We have Moose,Elk,Deer etc.Even otters in the creek.We put up a small cabin on the creek,It is my Happy place! As far as posting it, it will keep some out but not all
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Wow, sounds just like our slice of heaven
 
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I've been trying to find such a piece of land for years, with no luck. If it's not a state secret, do you mind sharing where you looked to find various parcels for sale and roughly what the market price for a 1/4 of recreational land looks like in Alberta these days?

Needless to say, if your source for where to look has a few options at any given time, I can draw my own conclusions as to the market price and there's no need to disclose what you paid for yours. I'm only asking because I know what farm land sells for, but I haven't seen any rec land for sale that'll help me get a feel for the market.
 
I know similar land located approx 30 minutes from my community sells for anywhere between $45,000 - 65,000 bushed with little bit open.

I also know one quarter closer to town listed between 135,000 - 200,000.


What should a guy expect to pay for a quarter? Anyone have thoughts?
 
straightshooter said:
I've been trying to find such a piece of land for years, with no luck. If it's not a state secret, do you mind sharing where you looked to find various parcels for sale and roughly what the market price for a 1/4 of recreational land looks like in Alberta these days?

Needless to say, if your source for where to look has a few options at any given time, I can draw my own conclusions as to the market price and there's no need to disclose what you paid for yours. I'm only asking because I know what farm land sells for, but I haven't seen any rec land for sale that'll help me get a feel for the market.
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I usually check out the buy&sell,kijiji,craigslist,mls.ca,and different farming realestate agents such as Delta realestate.The trick is to check often,I check them out at least once a day.
I don't know what 1/4's are going for in Alberta but It seems the going rate here varies from $40G for the more wilderness stuff to $80+ for the more agricultural stuff.
 
I just got a lease on a 1/2 section of bush (school land) 10 miles from home. It's fenced already, so I'll buy a beef in the spring, let him out, butcher in fall, then hunt,hunt,hunt. It's also a great source of firewood, the beaver are running rampant---'till I get through with them...Good times.
 
straightshooter said:
I've been trying to find such a piece of land for years, with no luck. If it's not a state secret, do you mind sharing where you looked to find various parcels for sale and roughly what the market price for a 1/4 of recreational land looks like in Alberta these days?
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I certainly can't speak for Alberta properties but when I was shopping, I just ended up driving around and looking up various MLS listings. I looked at lots of properties for several months. It was fun just driving and looking. Saw lots of untamed bush and wetlands that were clearly "projects" I'm glad I never took on. In the end I just lucked into finding an amazing abadoned farm. Seriously consider agricultural land in areas that other farmers think of as poor quality ag land, usually it's relatively cheap but fantastic for wildlife and usually there is already existing infrastructure such as built up appproaches, structures, wells, electrical service etc and more importantly good neighbors to look after your interest when you are not present. Also don't buy land 6-8 hours drive away from your home that will quickly wear thin. Around my parts anything within a hours drive of the big city was way too expensive but an 1 and 1/2 hour drive droped the price in half. Our land was $300/acre. I figure we got a steal of a deal.
 
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To stop tresspassing you might want to put out a well hidden trailcam.A friend did this and posted saying there was surveilance on the property.When people continued to tresspass he started putting laminated pic's up of the tresspassers soon all tresspassing stopped.
 
Crazy Dave I love the idea!!!

I will set my Cam up this weekend and will do my best to hide it.... Ill see if i get anyone on cam.

Thanks
 
Straitshooter,
In the sort of areas I hunt, feed is abundant and cover is at a premium. Control the cover, control the game. You can find interesting dirt through the farm listings, sellers are quite aware of the recreational buyers and will point out those features.
 
Whats a quarter price in Manitoba? I did go check my property today. No trespassers but did notice foot prints someone checked my signs out and turned around which is good.
 
Alberta was like that 15 + years ago,Better buy while the price is good.Even in slow times recreation land prices seem to hold there own.
 
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