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spooncg33

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Always get the urge to buy some land this time of the year, but can never decide where if I was actually able to afford it. So if you could buy land 75 miles from OKC which area would you go? Do y’all think the bigger bucks are North, or SE?
I looked at the state records for help, but would also like to hear from what everyone has seen during their hunting career.
 

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Always get the urge to buy some land this time of the year, but can never decide where if I was actually able to afford it. So if you could buy land 75 miles from OKC which area would you go? Do y’all think the bigger bucks are North, or SE?
I looked at the state records for help, but would also like to hear from what everyone has seen during their hunting career.
You wanna be friends? ;-)

I've seen some great bucks taken near Thunderbird.

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Your dollar will go farther in the SE part of the state. Antler size......according to the FB pages.....go southeast or south. Body size go NW.

^^^I agree.^^^
My only experience with OK hunting land is in the NW (Woods and Alfalfa counties), and when my Dad bought his first place 16 years ago, land was cheap. Land prices have basically tripled from what he paid back then, and there isn’t much for sale now.
 

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I’ve been looking at land here in my county also and I s high. If I were to buy land elsewhere it would be SE. The type of land would suit me better as I’m not a farmer. I’ve hunted a lot in the N/Nw and it’s a lot of open range type land with a few trees mixed in. The deer are very big up there. My sons first deer came from up north near Kansas and it was massive. Over 200 lbs, can’t remember exactly. Never hunted anything but ducks in the E/Se region but the land type is awesome. Wooded, hilly, lots of water, etc. That’s just more my style. To each his own.
 

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Just my opinion from an out of stater that has hunted OK for the last 19 years. I would think and prefer one if the counties between Wood and Osage along the Kansas border. To me that seems to hold great deer and has quite a few in the OK record books, if I remember correctly.

That being said I would look closer to home than 75 miles. As close as possible. For 18 years I'd go up to my father in laws 1000 acre lease in the Cookson area from Sapulpa. It is a bit if a drive. And to do that a couple dozen times a year takes its toll on time, fuel, convenience and the ability to just quickly go out to the land and dicker around. Now he has complete and sole access to 450 acres his niece bought just west of Sapulpa. Literally 10-15 minutes from his home and he spends a lot of time on the property. The 1000 acre least will be going away after Spring turkey season. He has been on on it for the last 43 years.
 

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Just a bit of info for those looking for land.
If it has hunting areas on it, the price goes up.
If you buy land next to somebody that has great hunting, they will hate you for drawing "their deer" off their property. It doesn't matter that they are coming onto your property to eat because their property doesn't offer any food sources, but it's "their deer"
Research the land to see if it has easements for pipelines, etc that require maintenance annually although those areas can be great hunting areas and they might put new pipelines through there and you get damages payments for surface and minerals if you own them. Always buy the mineral interests.
 

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