Best way to ask permission to hunt?

Cal Taylor said:
As a coyote hunter I understand the need for permission. As a rancher, nothing is more annoying than someone coming to your place when you're not expecting it or you're right in the middle of something. I probably have 20 guys a year pull in to ask for permission to hunt, never at a good time, and it takes time out of my day. Call or email first and if they are interested, set up a time to meet that is convenient for them. Knocking on my door, or pulling in here without an pre arranged time is a automatic no, no matter what you're asking or selling.
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Interesting. Ive been told no on the phone or online id say 18-20 times out of 18-20 times, never even an explanation.. just "no we dont allow hunting". Ive only ever been turned down in person once, and it wasnt coyote hunting.

Maybe people are more friendly here in Iowa, everyone is at least willing to talk and shake your hand. The one no was another departing handshake, and apologizing that his son is hunting it. He told me to check back next year before the season and meet his son and I would likely be able to hunt it.
 
Sometimes I use the Debo approach.

This your farm?

Yeah.

Well, it's our farm now.
 

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hunt0168 said:
Yep, and even if you are told no, tell them that you appreciate them taking the time to speak with you, and that you respect their decision. Sometimes just a little respect goes a long way. I've turned a couple around with small talk.
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Same here. Had one that was a "no" but could tell it wasn't a hard no. I apologized for taking time and asked he knew a couple other landowners around town and mentioned i hunt their property, after a couple laughs it turned into "you know, as long as you dont shoot right next to my cattle in the pastures you can go ahead and hunt". Then asking what he drank and dropping off a case of coors on the way home with my name and phone number thanking him again resulted in a phone call later that evening and another 15 minute chat, where i was told to come back any time i want and don't even ask.
 
in my younger days i also offered to help stack hay in the barn to feed the cows. that turned into the farmer asking me if i would help bale hay in the summer. i said sure.
DONT EVER DO THAT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTO :LOL:

that turned into a couple of summers of excruciating, back breaking, best times i ever had. i also developed a new found respect for farming and an extreme hatred for groundhogs that dig holes where the tractor goes :ROFLMAO:
 
In 1985 or 1986 a rancher that my family knew asked me to come out and trap coyotes on part of their ranch. I was just getting into calling coyotes so they also let me do some coyote calling on the same property I was trapping on.

Whenever I saw the rancher or any part of his family I would stop and talk to them and offer to help them with whatever they were doing. After a few years of helping them with gathering cattle and helping them with ranch chores they gave me access to about 20,000 more acres to trap and call coyotes on.

Offering to help land owners when you ask them for permission to hunt means a lot to ranching families that don't have any hired hands working for them. Once the word got out that the land owner trusted me and I helped them I had 3 different land owners call me and ask me to come out and call coyotes on their property.

Back in those days I was very lucky with my job's work schedules. I had a 7 days on and 7 days off schedule and a 4 day on 5 day off, 5 day on 4 day off schedule so I was available to help the ranchers quite often.

I still have 5 ranches that I can hunt coyotes on. I always talk to the rancher and ask for permission to hunt there property before I go hunt on their property. Not once have I ever gone out and hunted these rancher's property with out asking for their permission before I go out and hunt that property.
 
The above comment ^^^even if you have permission always let the landowner know when and if possible where you might be when going to their property. I even provide pics and videos when successful. That just proves I’m doing what I say I’m doing and sometimes productive at it, lol.
 
The best way I found to get permission was to pick up a fellow and his wife who had just totaled out his car by hitting a deer. We were about 30 miles from town and were both headed to a community meeting. Turns out he owned the ranch next to another place that I had permission to hunt. That added 38,000 acres of prime coyote ground to the program.
 
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