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Re: Thinking about opening a Club
[Re: BC]
#1625067
01/25/16 02:57 AM
01/25/16 02:57 AM
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Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 26,316
Locust Fork, Alabama
BC
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 26,316
Locust Fork, Alabama
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Ha... remembered another one. We had a 250 acre cutover bordered by a paved County Road. We had caught poachers shooting into our cutover several times. Had one idiot in my club walk out into the cutover one morning and put a Glendale Buck decoy up then squatted down in a bush right behind it. I was driving out that morning and seen it sitting on that hillside with the sun shining on it. I knew it was a decoy and stopped and looked at it through the binoculars. I could see the dudes face between the decoys front and rear legs. I drove up there and told him to take it down or at least move away from it. I told him one of the local rednecks was going to stop and take a poke at it from the road and kill him.
He accused me of micro managing and trying to dictate how he would hunt. I was just trying to keep the idiot from getting himself killed.
"Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters."
-- Archibald Rutledge
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Re: Thinking about opening a Club
[Re: Rickybobby]
#1625103
01/25/16 03:33 AM
01/25/16 03:33 AM
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Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 1,575
Lee county Bama
RonBuck
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 1,575
Lee county Bama
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If I was ging to run a club , I would be looking at recruiting trophy hunters and this is how I would try to run it . I would assign areas to hunt for each member. I would basically divide the tract up myself based on interior roads and terrain and I would assign areas and they could potentially cost diffrent amounts based on size and huntability, but I would try to keep it as even as possible to avoid this . But if you had a really good producing spot you could charge more for it .. If after straws were drawn the winner could pay for the good spot , or Pass it on to the next guy. I would be looking at keeping members for the long term . If a member wanted to allow someone to hunt there spot , it would be there choice . You could draw straws for the areas if you had a lot of members lined up at the beginning . You could also redraw straws for each season if you wanted , but this would be your choice , if you wanted to keep your area then you could .
Last edited by RonBuck; 01/25/16 03:45 AM.
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Re: Thinking about opening a Club
[Re: RonBuck]
#1625136
01/25/16 04:24 AM
01/25/16 04:24 AM
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Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 26,316
Locust Fork, Alabama
BC
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 26,316
Locust Fork, Alabama
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If I was ging to run a club , I would be looking at recruiting trophy hunters and this is how I would try to run it . I would assign areas to hunt for each member. I would basically divide the tract up myself based on interior roads and terrain and I would assign areas and they could potentially cost diffrent amounts based on size and huntability, but I would try to keep it as even as possible to avoid this . But if you had a really good producing spot you could charge more for it .. If after straws were drawn the winner could pay for the good spot , or Pass it on to the next guy. I would be looking at keeping members for the long term . If a member wanted to allow someone to hunt there spot , it would be there choice . You could draw straws for the areas if you had a lot of members lined up at the beginning . You could also redraw straws for each season if you wanted , but this would be your choice , if you wanted to keep your area then you could . Are you in a club close to Eufala? A friend of mine is in a club down there and basically when you join you get a 100 acre block. That block is yours to do whatever with you want. You just didn't go on another man's 100 acres and hunt. The members were numbered in seniority and if one got out of the club, the ones below him had the opportunity to take his spot and give up theirs. They said they were very successful with this method and had killed a pile of really good bucks over the last several years. I have a feeling that has more to do with the area that club is located, but it's still an intriguing setup.
"Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters."
-- Archibald Rutledge
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Re: Thinking about opening a Club
[Re: Rickybobby]
#1625586
01/25/16 10:40 AM
01/25/16 10:40 AM
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Joined: Dec 2004
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ford150man
Old Mossy Horns
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The no guest restrictions would get me too. I used to be in a club where we had a rule that you could only bring the same guest twice. The president made the mistake of not specifying how many guest days the same guest could come. We had a guy in the club that owned his own little construction company (and I use that term loosely). He would stop working every deer season, to the point of nearly losing his house several times, and bring his dad, who lived out of state, to hunt. They would camp out at the club for up to two weeks. By the rules, that was considered one trip. Then he would do the same thing later on in the season. So, his dad would end up hunting for a total of about 28 days as a guest on two trips. That only lasted one season before that rule was more clearly written.
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.-Mark Twain
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Re: Thinking about opening a Club
[Re: Rickybobby]
#1625635
01/25/16 11:14 AM
01/25/16 11:14 AM
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Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 14,215
AL
hunterbuck
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 14,215
AL
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$250 for killing a doe? $250 will buy a lot of beef these days, even at the ridiculously high price beef has been the last couple of years.
"You think I care? Roll Damn Tide"
Have you tried Google?
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Re: Thinking about opening a Club
[Re: Rickybobby]
#1625710
01/25/16 11:55 AM
01/25/16 11:55 AM
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Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 17,173
Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 17,173
Montgomery
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I wouldn't be a member of a club like that.
Dr. B
AKA: “Dr. B”
Aldeer #121
8-3-2000
Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA
2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners
2024-2025 Aldeer Deer Contest Winners
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris
1938-2017
UGA Class of 1960
BS/MS Forestry
LTJG, USNR
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Re: Thinking about opening a Club
[Re: SkiTar]
#1625864
01/25/16 01:40 PM
01/25/16 01:40 PM
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Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,319
Orange Beach, Al
Rickybobby
OP
8 point
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OP
8 point
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,319
Orange Beach, Al
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The only way to run a drama free club is for one guy to own the land, set the rules with NO grey area and enforce the rules as a dictator. So long as the rules are applied evenly to ALL members including the land owner and all rules are understood up front then there should be little drama. A democracy does not work in a hunting club, EVER. Different rules for different members is also the number one thing that I see causing the most drama in hunting clubs. THe second biggest drama causing behavior is when a member hangs a stand in a certain area and then expects everyone else to stay out of that area, essentially claiming an entire section of the club all to himself. If there is a way to stop these two factors hunting club drama would be significantly reduced. The last club I was in was very specific about this situation. Every stand hung was either a club stand or a public stand, no matter who the stand actually belonged to. All were welcome to hunt
At times my ambition far exceeds my talent.
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