I meant 7k per person

I know some folks that were in that Sehoy lease. That's a lot for a lease but doesn't compare to some in south Alabama in the Monroe/Clarke county areas a long the river. Those Mobile folks have correct change.

It depends on your own personal expectations. Each hunter has to decide what he/she is willing to pay for a lease and what he/she expects in return. The higher your expectations (what you want out of it), the bigger the price tag required to achieve it. Think of it as a sliding scale. For example, on one end of the scale is the WhackEmStackEm hunt club with 50 members on 250 acres. On the other end are leases like the 23,000-acre unit on King Ranch that was offered to me a couple years ago but I quickly declined. True story...the King Ranch was asking just over $400K and they limited it to three members. As ridiculous as I think their price is, there are a few hunters who are willing to pay for the kind of experience that the King Ranch offers. I will stick with my Crenshaw & Pike County lease with 15 members on 4,500 acres.

My closest pal hunts 3300 acres with one other guy. I'd hate to know what he spends per year on hunting. They don't have to pay a lease, because his partner owns the property, but they both spend a fortune every year on planting, burning, off-season feeding, surveys, dozer work, etc.

$5K in Chatom
$10K in Miller's Ferry.

We used to "trade" 200 acres of hay cutting rights for 1,200 acres of hunting rights (deer & turkey) in Gosport on the Alabama River. It now goes for $15-18 per acre

Four of us had 4800 acres for the last 12 years for free. I got the word last week it's over and being leased. The membership cost 3,000 for the new club.

I know of 4 guys in Alabama on 5000+ acres of prime hunting land with a super nice lodge. All total they spend about $25K each per year. They have had it for 3 years now and dont shoot anything but 4.5 years olds. Plenty of 150"+ deer. They letting them all grow up. Nothing taken since they been there. WOW. I was invited for a 2 day bow hunt and had 28 deer on a plot with half bucks. I was strictly warned nothing less than 4.5 years old. If in doubt DONT SHOOT. And it in the Black Belt.

Four guys on 5,000 acres, they have been there 3 years and havn't shot anything yet, but there are plenty of 150"+ deer? Something is missing there.

Nope. Thats the way it is. 150" is a dink to these guys.

150" free range(Bama)deer & they don't shoot? There idots....

Reminds me of an old saying "a fool and his money will soon be parted"

just because ya'll don't agree with their shooting choices dosen't mean they are idiots. I'd bet money that have all killed better deer than ya'll have....several times.

Not in the last 3years bahahahahahaha..I'm glad ur confident that they've killed better deer than me..And Fred I hunt the black belt and i have met or know some of biggest land owners in that area. And I've yet to hear one call a 150" class bama buck a fracking "dink"

I would venture to say there aren't "plenty of 150" deer" on any free ranging 5K acres anywhere in America, much less the Deep South. And I'm not aware of any place that sees them as "dinks." I'm happy they have a little peice of paradise to enjoy, but that's an outlandish statement.

Let's see....they have spent around $75000 in the last three years on a lease in Alabama that has PLENTY of 150+ bucks on it and have not shot a buck because those are considered dinks to them..... Yep idiots or fools either way. They could spend a lot less in different areas of this country that actually produce bucks of that 150+ caliber on a regular basis and I could see it being a legitimate management choice to hold out for a bigger buck, but in Alabama they are delusional. I know there are 150+ Alabama bucks out there because I look at one every night I go to sleep, but to consider them dinks at that class is just plain foolish in Alabama.....

I've hunted Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, and Mississippi once when I was a kid. There is nowhere in the South that has PLENTY of 150 inch deer. Even the finest soybean/milo/supplemental/fed plantations in Alabama can't produce ''Plenty'' of 150 inch deer. If these guys have a high fence, and they are buying sperm, then maybe, but if this is free range, no way. If a club let every buck walk for 10 years in Alabama on 5,000 acres, I would bet there wouldn't be 6 deer on 5k acres that grossed 150. As much as I run cameras on our 5000 acres, I have 2 deer that would push 150. Maybe 3 that are over 135 in eight years.

Agree bigt, I doubt they have 150" behind every other tree, that may be plenty to some. They are not well versed on Alabama whitetails IMO. The reason they ain't killin' any is 150" is the upper end of the curve for free range in Alabama. They all keep holding out for well over 150",most of them are gonna have rusty bores.

I know a young man that one of his first bucks was a 160". His family owns some of the best hunting land in Northeast Bama, "plenty" of full grown Southeastern bucks. He vowed he was only gonna shoot that class of bucks and nothing else. Well after bout 10 years of not pulling the trigger, 130's started hitting the ground.

so because they don't go along with what you think they are idiots???? Damn if I see how ya'll make that leap.

Any of ya'll naysayers ever set foot on that property??? ever hunted there??? One dosen't see folks passing up 150's unless they are seeing pics of better deer, or have, in their lifetime, killed several over 150.

So if they kill a 170ish six year old who is the idiot???

A 170, is a lot different than plenty of 150s, you know that. Now if they all hold out for a 170" free range in Alabama I know damn well there's gonna be some rusty bores. I bet their neighbors love em.

I don't think them to be idiots, just a bit unrealistic for Alabama. They can hold out for 200" if they want to. I bet eventually reality will set in and some of those 150's gonna get turned a flip.

I didn't say they would hold out for one, but if you are growing 150s and seeing them the odds are you also have bigger deer than that.

The place I had at Leeds had deer over 150, we killed several over 150, one well over 150.

It happens IF you let them walk, have good genetics, and good feed.
A LOT of em?? Hail no, we both know that. But there are those places where it does happen.

Just read a long report on a (free range) place in La that produces 170-200" deer on a regular basis if not every year. La is not one of those places known for monster deer but this guy does it. Good land, good neighbors, good feed, great genetics, LOTS of money spent, LOTS of trigger restraint.