IOWA HUNTING LAND FOR SALE: 146 ACRES IN LEE COUNTY, IOWA
146 acres in Lee county, Iowa (South East Iowa) South of Burlington, IA, on Skunk River, mile or two from Mississippi. Near intersection of 180th & 400th St. 1-2 miles off Mississippi. This is a hugely important and highly detailed description of land, you must understand all this to understand why this hunting land is amazing! Pricing at Bottom.
Read through this and you will have very few questions left, I answered almost anything you could ask the best I could...
Mostly all timber. This is a rare tract for Iowa. This is awesome, dense timber that holds many big mature bucks and is very thick and nasty (bedding in many areas). Your jaw will drop when you walk in dense & thick timber filled with big bucks!
Recently paid for $8,500 full survey and setting of borders of this land.
DUCK HUNTERS PARADISE AS WELL, a mile from Mississippi and almost a mile of River Frontage.
If you complain about losing places to hunt- think of how little a small group would pay to own this. Say 3 guys, $75,000 per person. Each puts $25,000 down and borrows $50,000 @ 6% over 25 years = $3,800/year payment per guy. Then, reduce payments with timber sales, government projects and the tax advantages for a real estate investment property/farm (deductions- interest, mileage, etc) = FAR LESS. No question it will be FAR LESS than a 5 day guided hunt cost BUT you own the land now and can shoot big deer on YOUR LAND!
$11,000 spent on Timber Stand Improvement job. Production apple trees planted as well & fenced. Oaks & walnuts direct seeded. Planted 400 other food producing trees. Creating path and food plot locations as soon as weather permits.
When I look at a piece of ground, I have a checklist of things I look for any almost all don't get my "ok". This one does. Think about stuff like: easy entrances, ability to hunt with all wind directions, room for tons of stands, ability to hold and manage a deer herd (rare and this has it!!! You don't shoot a buck and there's a great chance he'll live another year- this factor is rare for a piece of land!!), plenty of thick bedding areas, top genetics, QDM neighbors, fertile soils & crops, ability to hunt for more than just deer, timber income, difficulty for poachers to patrol, trophy county, high deer density, hardly any neighbors hunting your fence (this piece you have NO problem with that- RARE!!!), close drive for an out-of-state hunter, reasonable drive to get to stores, etc, etc. This one is a rare piece that passed my list- the main reason I bought it.
This property is simply for the hard-core big buck hunter. This is NOT the well tailored and manicured open property with open timber and wide open country. Rather, this is thick and nasty timber! Most of it is a thick nasty Monster Buck bedding area that you would not have a chance to drive a buck out of with a deer drive, he’d be safe. This is a bow-hunters dream as well as hunting a tree-stand with a gun (deer drives would not work like I said!). If you don’t have opportunities at fully MATURE GIANT BUCKS you’re doing something wrong, this is their haven and they are in there. This is simply a thick, nasty monster buck paradise that will produce monster after monster if you do things right. If you want to shoot giant bucks at a fraction of the cost, hurry, this is priced to go very fast and it will! This property is easy to hunt with a unique and awesome strategy!
This property is amazingly easy and unique to hunt. This is the ONLY property in Iowa I have ever seen where you can access it (in and out) without spooking deer AND hunt it spooking very few deer (you let your wind blow over river). ALSO - very little road frontage (pretty much NONE), good access BUT not any areas where poachers can monitor and lurk.
Huge deer, extremely high deer numbers, huge trails through this timber, giant bucks! TURKEY hunting as well along crop field- there are plenty of turkeys!!!
The land could get wet on rare, super high rain conditions. This generally is in the spring only and generally lasts a few days. Rare. With record rain in 2008, I went to the north 2/3rd’s of land and it was dry one weekend. It does not hurt deer hunting at all and the deer just move around accordingly in the spring if it does get wet or has water. This is typical for most forested areas in IA as much of the ground is by rivers. The more north you go on the land, the higher the elevation, changes quickly several feet higher.
The PRICE of this ground is so much lower than anything else you can find, period. Go North an hour, pay 2-3 times as much per acre and get hunting that is not as good! Or just buy anything else around there in Lee County and pay a ridiculously larger amount! You will have a hard time finding any areas in the state as good of hunting BUT you’ll find prices doubling or tripling this.
I would much rather hunt this than some open timber or property full of draws that might be 4 times as big and 8 times the price, you will produce more giant bucks here than 95% of any properties I have ever walked on.
CLOSE DRIVE! If you are out of state, say from MI, IN, TN, PA, etc, etc this is a 2-4 hour CLOSER DRIVE than South Central Iowa and hunting on this tract can’t be beat!
Land is quick claim deed BUT we NOW have an abstract & when I bought it, my attorney looked at titling, opinion, etc as the last owner owned it for over 100 years & had no debt on it. Clear title, ready to sell and convey title. **I have a copy of survey available (146.13 acres).
If you manage the timber correctly over the years, this property could pay for itself. It contains huge amounts of fast growing and incredibly valuable Soft Maple. These trees allow “frequent” logging (which HELPS DEER HUNTING!) and gives you top dollar for a wood that is in huge demand! The last owner claimed it was lightly logged in 1990. Many trees are getting close. Soft Maple grows FAST! Marketable trees on land.
Neighbor across river (deer constantly swim across with ease and regularity) owns hundreds of acres and he’s a ridiculously hard core big buck manager. This area gets managed amazing and many gigantic bucks are here because of the habitat and management.
This land HOLDS deer, it’s got thick and nasty areas. Make a sanctuary and you’ll have mature bucks year round on this place!!
There’s a 10' high Levee or Burm on the south (or it could be called the west side) end of the whole property. This is actually a huge bonus BECAUSE you can walk on either side (depending on day or night hunt) keeping any deer from seeing you walk to or from your stand. The reason the Levee is there is very common along rivers- so the crops don’t flood, it’s rarely ever needed except in extreme times of spring & like I said, with record rain. No to very little effect on deer in any way. 146 includes Levee/Burm along top ½ of timber, the south half of the land does not include Levee. The Levee commission does have easement to repair and work on it as needed (very rare!). This Levee IMPROVES deer hunting by entrance/exit to stands and keeping deer hidden! *TIP: I would use a mountain bike to ride to your hunting spot in the fall.
Extremely fertile soils in this area, thousands acres of crops to grow huge bucks AND the fertile soils are proven to grow bigger deer through nutrients, minerals, vitamins and astounding food! Easy to clear a few spots for food plots OR you could ask a farmer to leave some crops up if you’d want to try and work that out.
Vast amount of land you’ll find for sale WILL NOT have near enough timber! This is it, you can have several hunters in here with tons of room, easy hunting without detection and tons of stand locations. Split it with 2 buddies and you'll be set!
Ability to put a cabin on here! It’s standard across Iowa to put cabins on stilts when they are near river and you’re fine. Like any cabin you'll see by Mississippi it will have stilts OR you could probably EASILY buy an acre from some local farmer around there for a very low RURAL land price- that's what I'd do BUT you have options!!!
Instead of buying $6,000/acre crop ground around there, pay the neighbor to leave some corn or beans OR rent like 2 acres total from him per year for like $400- obviously you have to negotiate this BUT when you tell them it’s to kill deer and you pay the costs, I have never had a farmer tell me no, NEVER!
2 acre boat ramp not included. This is mainly used in spring and summer and lightly used by fisherman or folks wanting to put their boat in to get to Mississippi. It doesn’t have effect on deer hunting because it’s rarely used in fall AND it’s on far south end of land (you can walk basically a mile to the north to be in middle of no-where and thick timber- SECLUDED!!). This is a plus BECAUSE, I would buy a cheap small boat with an electric trolling motor- use this EVERY MORNING to drive hunters to their stands along river un-detected (have trail tacks along river to show where stands are). I will take $1,000 off price of purchasing the land for you to buy a small boat with electric motor & a mountain bike to bike along levee. This is a huge advantage on a hunting approach!!!!!!!
*I did post the boundaries by boat ramp heavily (probably over-board) BUT I have not had a problem with tresspassing- just preventing it just in case like any piece of land. The boat ramp is to put boat in and does not allow for hunting or any activity like that (like I said, fall use is very low & it's so easy to get super far from that area and be in thick, secluded timber).
How many pieces of land do you spook all the deer feeding?!?! NOT HERE! Go in the back door while they are feeding in field, you are un-detected, big bucks come in cruising timber after light- incredible set-up! If you can’t kill huge bucks here, you’re doing something incredibly wrong. I’d rather hunt this 146 acres than 500 acres of ground that I busted all the deer and was incredibly difficult to hunt! It’s a tiny fraction of the price too! Don’t pay tons more for far less hunting opportunity land! DUCK HUNTING/FISHING/CAMPING ALSO!!! River frontage!
Minimal taxes, should NO TAXES or close to it- I recently enrolled the whole place in Forest Reserve- should kick in next year. Easy to un-enroll BUT you would not want to or have any reason to. In a year- ZERO TAXES or close.
PRICE: Asking $1,565 an acre. This piece will not last long. I priced this to sell fast. Most timber sells for much more on East side of state. This will sell and whoever buys this will own a rare giant producing piece of land for a great price!
