Nope, outfitter already in this area.

Plenty of land going for $25 plus In south montgomery and bullock county.

Yep I wouldn’t call $30 an anomaly…….Its more like the new top end price……There’s been land leasing for $25 in Montgomery for several years now and a guy told me year before last about having his 400 acre Bullock tract leased out from under him for $28…….The folks paying those high prices is whats causing the low end stuff to be $14……..but…..free market and all…….

Interesting.......I'm amazed those guys can stay in business......I'd like to see how the math works out on all of it

It makes no mathematical sense at all.

I guarantee you if any of it was worth a shit it wouldn’t have made it to the auction block.

Yes Sir I agree. Going up every year here, glad I own property to hunt on.

I wonder how many hunters they'll run through that 2000 acres??.....They're about to start selling off all your local bucks to pay hunters......danged ol' neighbors.....

He's got thousands of acres already and he's about to find out is he overpaid by about $20 an acre.

Chilton county tract is up to $35 per acre and a couple in Coosa and Tallapoosa for $30 an acre. You can lease prime ground in the mid-west for those prices. Doesn't make any sense to me.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that a lot of these Florida guys are already traveling anywhere from 4-8 hrs just to get to south Alabama…….They don’t have enough hunting available in Florida for the number of residents they have and south Alabama is the most logistically feasible location to go to with the most lenient rules……Most of these folks don’t seem to be very choosy about what they shoot either so I guess to them its worth it....I dont know

These individual tracts may not be out of state residents but its still their “demand” that’s pushing it to those levels……There’s not enough supply to meet the demand……I’ve tracked deer for folks that drive up all the way from the Miami area. That’s a lot of folks to supply deer hunting to……

It could be just 1 person leasing something to hunt on without others, at least the smaller tracts.

I agree though, its getting to the point hunting is to expensive.

I went on a hunt at Great Southern Outdoors a few years ago. I wasn't paying so no pain to me for that fiasco.

20+ hunters in camp for a three day hunt.

Two does shot between all of us, most people lucky to see a deer.

Two bobcats shot by me.

20 hunters for $1500 ea is $30K. Not bad for one weekend of hunting and only have to gut 2 deer.

The long hunting season is one reason lease prices are so high compared to Midwestern states with maybe a month long season for all weapons. Alabama outfits run as many hunters as possible to make the math work, deer herd be damned. Midwestern outfits may have a Two week season and run 6-8 hunters a week on 5000 acres.

Alabama outfits charge $1500-2000 for a three day hunt with generally chitty hunting.

Midwestern outfits charge $4000-6000 for a five day hunt with a good opportunity to kill something you want to put on your wall.

It’s gotten to just not worth it anymore for me. Shot the bow for the first time in a year on a 3D course. It was great.

The more people get involved the more expensive it becomes.

Duck hunting and now turkey hunting is upper echelon and getting more expensive yearly.

I bet Arkansas duck hunters hate us out of towners lol.
Landowners and small businesses not so much. They rely on OOSs

For a guy marketing and selling insurance products to Alabama hunters, that’s an interestingly strong anti-Alabama hunting rant.

I walked that Randolph county bow only land. Someone paid wayyyy too much for it. Has 2-3 opening for plots with 6-8’ pine trees growing in it. The roads are rutted out pretty good, looks like where power company trucks got stuck sometime in the past. It has a main power line though a portion of property. It’s one way in and out, no camp, just. A place to park inside the gate. Just a long island that goes out into the river. But to each their own is what I say.