So does this work. When place a bid. Do u know if somebody bids more or how does this work exacty. Thks guys. Info
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You make your bid and hope for the best. You will be notified one way or the other. Let me give you a piece of advice- I have three tracts leased from them and will be going to look at another in the morning. You really should go look at whatever tract you are interested in bidding on before you bid. This will help you decide what it would be worth to you to bid. For instance, the first tract I got I went and looked at was 300 acres but had just had about 90 acres of it clearcut. Now a clearcut doesn't bother me, especially since they left about a 60-70 yard belt of woods standing along the county road that blocked the vision from road hunters. The fact that it was less than a mile from my house convinced me to bid probably more than I needed to, but it was worth what I bid to me to have a place so close to home. That was seven years ago and I am still hunting it. Flash forward to last spring. I went and looked at a tract and the first thing that struck me was a big part of it had just been clearcut all the way to the county road, which left it open for road hunters. Also, because it was kind of odd shaped, you had to cross private property to get from one side to the other. The only other way to access the other side was to travel logging roads off the lease and thru other Campbell leases to get to it. I talked to the land owner when I went to look at it and he said he would deny access across his property. So I bid what it would have been worth to me, but not so much that if I didn't get it I wouldn't be upset. Of course I didn't get it. I looked at another property a week or two ago and if I had no other place to hunt and wanted a place to take a gun and maybe shoot something I would bid on it. I saw nothing but solid seven to eight year old pines and no open spaces. As a result I wouldn't bid on this tract. So, do your homework, look at it from the prospective of what can I do to make it better for hunting, and then bid away. -
By the way, there will be many on here that will tell you all the horror stories of what could happen as a result of theft, poaching, etc. I have experienced a little of that on my first lease but generally speaking have had no real issues. The good thing is that you won't have to worry about losing your lease because the land owner died and now the kids want to sell it or someone comes along and offers more money. Once you have a tract unless you run afowl of TP&W or break Campbell's rules you can have it probably as long as you want.Comment
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Another reason to go look at it first is to make sure you can find the tract. Sometimes these tracts can be a little hard to locate and access. I went this morning to check one out and it is actually two tracts close together but not connecting. I found one part OK but having a little bit of a difficulty trying to figure out how to get to the other part.Comment
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