Land

[switchbackkd]

Looking to buying land I have looked into New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Idaho. Any suggestions and ideas about theses states. Hard hunted, tags, ect?

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Are you just looking for a place to hunt? Retire? Relocate? Need a little more information.

 

[okielite]

Need more info. What exactly are you looking for? Mountain cabin? Home on the prairie? What species are you after? Budget? Wanting to hunt your own land? Farm the land? Run cattle?

 

[ivorytip]

as far as the hunting goes, Idaho and co would offer up best chances for quality tags every year. if you pick Idaho you should prob let me check out the area for ya, make sure its hunt able you know?

 

[Ikeepitcold]

I agree if you want to hunt every year choose a state that sells OTC tags.

 

[switchbackkd]

Retire and be able to run some cattle and little farm/ hay land. Budget is up to 5 million

 

[Hilltop]

Retire and be able to run some cattle and little farm/ hay land. Budget is up to 5 million

Wyoming is the easy answer to me... You can still find reasonably priced land and you can buy OTC tags every year.

 

[WapitiBob]

There's 250 acres in unit 100 WY for sale that has a cpl Elk and Antelope LO tags. The guy is over on monster muleys WY forum..

 

[okielite]

I agree if you want to hunt every year choose a state that sells OTC tags.

I'd focus on what tags are available for residents versus NR's. Colorado has lots of OTC tags but also has a large population so getting good tags is difficult. Not to mention many of their tags are given to landowners so there are fewer and fewer tags available in the draw, unless you plan to buy enough land to get landowner tags. For example it will probably take 10+ years to get a good antelope tag in Colorado and in Wyoming you can get a similar tag every year as a resident.

Look for states with good animals and smaller populations of resident hunters. States like WY, MT, and NM fit the bill.

 

[Hilltop]

There's 250 acres in unit 100 WY for sale that has a cpl Elk and Antelope LO tags. The guy is over on monster muleys WY forum..

That sounds pretty dang good... Probably the only way a guy ever gets a unit 100 elk tag.

 

[Againstthewind]

http://www.landwatch.com/Wyoming_farms_ranches_for_sale

$5 mill makes it a little harder to narrow down, but Saratoga, Hulette/Sundance, Pinedale, Dubois, Shell, Powell, Sheridan/Buffalo and even Casper are all pretty good central locations for hunting/fishing about everything Wyoming has to offer. That doesn't narrow it down at all does it? lol, sorry I was trying to help but every time I tried to think of where I would want to live another cool place came up.

 

[ivorytip]

for 1 % of that 5 mill ill hook you up nice and pretty ill check out some places around here

 

[switchbackkd]

Wyoming is nice. I really thought about Idaho. What about Utah New Mexico

 

[okielite]

Found the perfect spot.

http://news.yahoo.com/sale-texas-ranch-defines-cowboy-020154899.html;_ylt=AwrBT8Z7mftTuOEArmdXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzdTF0cTg4BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDA3N18x

 

[packmule]

18365 Hwy 149, Powderhorn, CO | Gunnison County, CO


^^^punch that into Google. (I'd personally get it divided up into smaller tracts to be able to rotate them through the draw.

 

[packmule]

Found the perfect spot.

http://news.yahoo.com/sale-texas-ranch-defines-cowboy-020154899.html;_ylt=AwrBT8Z7mftTuOEArmdXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzdTF0cTg4BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDA3N18x

They couldn't agree on selling it a few yrs ago when an O&G exec out of Houston wanted it..I see they've raised the price tag a cool 200 million though. It'll go the way of the Y.O. Ranch and be sold off to pay the bill for it.

 

[switchbackkd]

isn't gunnison one of the most hunted places.

 

[packmule]

North of 50 is bc 54 is OTC 2nd for elk, that place is sitting south in gmu 66 up against 67 and on a major migration route along Cebolla creek with hi $ muley tags to be drawn.

 

[packmule]

By hi$ I mean $7-9k+ for 3rd as current FMV, 2nd which can be drawn 2 times before a 3rd tag is running $3800-4500. There are usually leftover elk tags for the LOs to fight over depending on season. The LO we deal with generally gets between 8-12 of them and at $1000 a pop it pays for a few range cubes for the cows.

 

[switchbackkd]

North of 50 is bc 54 is OTC 2nd for elk, that place is sitting south in gmu 66 up against 67 and on a major migration route along Cebolla creek with hi $ muley tags to be drawn.

High muley tags like Utah. I dont think Colorado has the caliber of Mule deer as Nevada and Utah