Hunting Club with open spots

[Duckyou]

I am looking for a place but I want to be able to put a camper there and stay on property, bring the kids, and have use year round to be out doors.

 

[Raven]

I just don't see it as smart financially

There's a lot about expensive hobbies such as hunting and guns that don't make a lot of good financial sense, until one weighs in the heritage, time spent with family and friends, and pride in bagging the big ones that will be talked about around the camp fire for multiple lifetimes

 

[ccc]

There's a lot about expensive hobbies such as hunting and guns that don't make a lot of good financial sense, until one weighs in the heritage, time spent with family and friends, and pride in bagging the big ones that will be talked about around the camp fire for multiple lifetimes

Yep I pay over 2k a year and worth EVERY PENNY for the peace and sanity I get in the woods away from this god awful society !

 

[RHINOWSO]

There's a lot about expensive hobbies such as hunting and guns that don't make a lot of good financial sense, until one weighs in the heritage, time spent with family and friends, and pride in bagging the big ones that will be talked about around the camp fire for multiple lifetimes

Yeah, but all those hobbies have a 'capital item' (ie the rifles, cars, bikes, boats, etc) where as a hunting lease is really a poor rental arrangement.

I'm not saying it doesn't have value, I'm just saying it doesn't have $10K signature loan value.

I've seen plenty of 'opportunities' and 'business' developed the same way, oh we need cash, oh it's gonna be great and when the dust settles... nothing... because there was no plan, no paperwork, no nothing...

 

[DixieReb]

I am looking for a place but I want to be able to put a camper there and stay on property, bring the kids, and have use year round to be out doors.

The Frank Jackson State Park only about 6 or 7 miles from the lease, great camping there on the Lake

 

[DixieReb]

I would make it 2k each and have only 5 hunters there, you should have at least 100 acres per hunter.

I can’t afford to spend $2000 myself and not going to ask anyone else to do it, we’re just ordinary hard working folks that have other obligations in life that are more important

 

[DixieReb]

Here’s what’s left of my lease , the Yellow River is about 1/4 mile east of the property

 

[Raven]

I can’t afford to spend $2000 myself and not going to ask anyone else to do it, we’re just ordinary hard working folks that have other obligations in life that are more important

I would want to have a camp year round too like Duckyou. It's the only thing I see stopping me if I was going to do it

 

[ccc]

I can’t afford to spend $2000 myself and not going to ask anyone else to do it, we’re just ordinary hard working folks that have other obligations in life that are more important

Bud I get it, but what are your options, only charge $700 and have three times the hunters with less acreage and on top of one another ? I wish you well in your search. As others have asked you need to post what the rules will be, bag limit, and much more information to gain interest. And we are “All” hard working ordinary folks. Good luck my friend.

 

[DixieReb]

Sorry about the no camping, timber company does not allow it.

 

[DixieReb]

Red boundary lines are the timber company lease I was robbed of, sickening to lose such good hunting land after 25 years.

 

[FLT]

Am I understanding this right the doctor got one of the two leases that were in the hunting club , and took a lot of the members with him? Likely the members with money enough to pay up front? I’d be inclined to think this was well planned and by more than just one of the former members. It seems likely that they will end up with it all before this is played out. It’s like they wanted the club but didn’t want you in charge any more. That could be way off base , but the whole situation smells fishy to me.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Hell. Most of us spend 1k on gun nonsense in a year or MORE..... At least with a club membership you can actually use all the guns for something productive while waiting for the zombie cannibal gas stealing hordes to arrive at your doorstep. Not even mentioning spending time with like minded friends, enjoying nature, etc, etc.

 

[Bowhntr6pt]

Hell. Most of us spend 1k on gun nonsense in a year or MORE..... At least with a club membership you can actually use all the guns for something productive while waiting for the zombie cannibal gas stealing hordes to arrive at your doorstep. Not even mentioning spending time with like minded friends, enjoying nature, etc, etc.

Keep in mind the BIG PICTURE... 1-1.5K on a lease isn't all-inclusive and that's the problem, that's the main issue for a lot of people when it comes to leases and hunting out of town. I know some guys who have to stay in local Motels as they don't own a campers. $65-$75 a night? How many nights you want to sign up for?

Travel and lodging expenses add up quickly, especially with gas being $3.50-$3.75 a gallon right now with who knows what's ahead. Driving three hours to a lease, hunting the weekend, getting home, with or without a camper (camp ground fees are outrageous now days IMO), with food, gas, etc., is what? That's all IN ADDITION to the lease fee. Eventually, the overall costs drive guys into other hobbies or to public land. I've see several of my friends face this dilemma. My friend was paying $250+ a month at the KOA in the middle of nowhere really, that's FOUR months during hunting season... 1K + just for lot rent to hunt four or five weekends out of the season.

Twenty years from now the common man won't be leasing property to deer hunt recreationally, mark my word, it will become cost prohibitive, this thread already is illustrating that.

 

[RHINOWSO]

Twenty years from now the common man won't be leasing property to deer hunt recreationally, mark my word, it will become cost prohibitive, this thread already is illustrating that.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Keep in mind the BIG PICTURE... 1-1.5K on a lease isn't all-inclusive and that's the problem, that's the main issue for a lot of people when it comes to leases and hunting out of town. I know some guys who have to stay in local Motels as they don't own a campers. $65-$75 a night? How many nights you want to sign up for?

Travel and lodging expenses add up quickly, especially with gas being $3.50-$3.75 a gallon right now with who knows what's ahead. Driving three hours to a lease, hunting the weekend, getting home, with or without a camper (camp ground fees are outrageous now days IMO), with food, gas, etc., is what? That's all IN ADDITION to the lease fee. Eventually, the overall costs drive guys into other hobbies or to public land. I've see several of my friends face this dilemma. My friend was paying $250+ a month at the KOA in the middle of nowhere really, that's FOUR months during hunting season... 1K + just for lot rent to hunt four or five weekends out of the season.

Twenty years from now the common man won't be leasing property to deer hunt recreationally, mark my word, it will become cost prohibitive, this thread already is illustrating that.

Oh, I agree. It's an expensive past time but what's the other option?? Not going? Sitting at home pecking away at the keyboard? Public land? What a joke. Down here they have " gun weekend" maybe 2-4 weekends a season. The rest of the season is bow stalking for anything local on the north end of our county. The south end south of I10 is tourist traps and bs subdivisions.
Unfortunately it's all pay to play.

 

[Bowhntr6pt]

Oh, I agree. It's an expensive past time but what's the other option?? Not going? Sitting at home pecking away at the keyboard? Public land? What a joke. Down here they have " gun weekend" maybe 2-4 weekends a season. The rest of the season is bow stalking for anything local on the north end of our county. The south end south of I10 is tourist traps and bs subdivisions.
Unfortunately it's all pay to play.

We haven't even discussed Hunt Club politics... I know of two guys who got the boot from a club because they "hunted too much" lol, is that even a thing?

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

We haven't even discussed Hunt Club politics... I know of two guys who got the boot from a club because they "hunted too much" lol, is that even a thing?

Yeah, I know. Have a few irksome members in ours now. I shot the largest deer with my "toy" gun (x39) last season off a club tripod. There was some crap. I don't care, meats in the freezer.

 

[Telum Pisces]

Want to see a bunch of grown men act like school girls? Put them together in a hunting club! It's flat out stupid how grown men act in a hunting club! Everyone wants to hunt differently and no one can leave well enough alone anything!

You have to have so many freaking rules to cover all the idiots that it's no fun and you can't enjoy anything!

 

[Duckyou]

Want to see a bunch of grown men act like school girls? Put them together in a hunting club! It's flat out stupid how grown men act in a hunting club! Everyone wants to hunt differently and no one can leave well enough alone anything!

You have to have so many freaking rules to cover all the idiots that it's no fun and you can't enjoy anything!

It has to be the right club and the right people.

I just need a place to put a camper, four wheeler, and a stash of clothes. I hope to find a place in the next few years. My kids are young so I am not in a rush.