Doing my part to keep my property taxes down

[BTLowry]

Changed my valuation from ag to wildlife a couple of years ago. Part of my requirement is to kill predators, the list includes feral hogs, coyotes, etc and brown headed cow birds (they lay eggs in other song birds nests and the BHCB chick knocks the host chicks out and takes over)
Well this afternoon my son and I were out doing a little bow shooting and I heard the distinctive call of a male cowbird from the pasture. I walked around the hedge and spotted him courting a female in the horse/goat pen. I told my son to go get me one of my G5 small game heads and kept watch. Got the head screwed on and slowly approached the fence. They must be young and stupid because they let me get in position to shoot over the fence. I took aim at the male and let her fly. Knocked the top of his head smooth off Then I grabbed another arrow with just a field point and took a shot at the female and missed her by a hair/ feather
Wish I had the video camera out

[mhbaseball]

that is awesome...Great shot. Blow em both off next time with a rifle or shotgun.

I thought my uncle told me ag/wildlife gives you the same tax break? They require different things of course, but in terms of saving money its the same??

[tgridley]

that is awesome...Great shot. Blow em both off next time with a rifle or shotgun.

I thought my uncle told me ag/wildlife gives you the same tax break? They require different things of course, but in terms of saving money its the same??

They are the same, both 1-d-1 and same tax. Going wildlife just cost you more because of the requirments you agree to do.

[Peacock]

Great shot!

[BTLowry]

They are the same, both 1-d-1 and same tax. Going wildlife just cost you more because of the requirments you agree to do.

Half true

They are both the same tax

Going wildlife cost me nearly nothing because I was already feeding the deer (plots and feeders) and I was already killing predators (pigs, coyotes, coons, etc). all I spent extra money on so far was some cypress lumber to build bird houses. They give you a list of 7 things and you have to do 3 of them.

With ag I was having to run cows and with hay and feed costs what they are it was not cheap ( I was not making much if any profit)