Im telling ya. The amount of money people want for turkey rights is down right ridiculous. And the people leasing out these rights are totally ignorant about turkey hunting

I just called a guy about 450 acres here by the house. He's telling me how great the property is and how many birds it has and how many he sees during deer season (which im pretty familiar with the property anyway seeing as its 5 minutes from my house). So the convo goes on and I finally get around to asking what he wants dollar wise for it.


$1750.00. Yes Seventeen Hundred and Fifty dollars for 450 acres!
Thats almost $4.00 an acre! There isn't a piece of property in ALL of Baldwin Co worth $4.00 an acre!
$1750.00, that's a Texas and Oklahoma trip with 6 birds, completely paid for!


Anyway. So im obviously in shock when he tells me the price. Then he goes back into telling me how many birds he see's during deer season, he tells me i could alwayd get 2 or 3 friends to go in on the lease with me (yea 4 of us on 450 acres, sounds amazing) & then he says, & I quote .."yea man, I see the ones with the gray heads, the blue heads and even the ones with the redheads out there." At this point I just couldn't hold it in any longer and had to laugh. People kill me.


Sorry guys. Just had to vent. It just irritates me seeing people taking advantage of other hunters. The bad part is, someone will pay it and that will be the price he expects to get from now on.

I know of a 300 acre tract here that the landowner sold 9 turkey permits for $250 each. He said it was fine to put that many turkey hunters on a place cause "shotguns don't shoot near as far as rifles"

If they pay that they have more money than sense and will get what they deserve. You didn't bother to tell him he would be lucky to have half the birds come season. People who don't know anything about turkey hunting and turkey movement patterns shouldn't be leasing property. IMHO

Now that's funny!! I bet he had some pissed off folks come opening morn.

The guys that are asking these ridiculous prices for these small tracts of land are plain ignorant and know very little about turkey and their habits. I'm not paying it and I'll hunt public land or join a quality club for that kind of money.

I had one guy that tried to lease 500 acres tell me...."During deer season I'll see 20 to 30 Tom's walking single file by me on the roads with beards on the ground, have seen several albinos over the years."

Did you get his growers name cause I want some of that chit!! Did you at least tell him about your squatch and black painter that live in your back yard.

At least he knows a little bout guns......that's bout it....

Apparently, he's not familiar with TSS.

I got 1000ac in Monroe co. I will let someone have turkey rights to for a heck of a deal at 3.50$ an acre. I will even let y'all have the pleasure of dragging a couple of coonarses around with y'all. I will even teach y'all what not to do in the turkey woods for free and y'all can only hunt on the weekends when we are there so we don't pressure the place to bad. We see lots of turkeys during the deer season eating in the big corn piles we have in our plots. Some of the turkeys we don't kill on the corn with our rifles even stay on the place till we run all the out chasing them in the spring. Hard to shoot and drive the 4 wheeler at the same time. I will even cook all the turkey eggs we picked up out of the nests for y'all for breakfast. We also have a 2 bedroom camp house, a 2 bedroom trailer and 2 campers on the place with water and electricity. Also have a 5 acre pond stocked with bass and bream. For an extra 1000$ you can use the facilities, you have to supply the lunch and dinner while we are all there. This is the total package here boys, don't miss out. I know it sounds to good to be true, but hey we are always lookin to help fellow turkey hunters out. Lookin forward to hearin from y'all.

I've been wanting to get back in that area. Pm me your number.

Oh, if you are a serious turkey hunter and have killed more than one turkey in the last 10 yrs we do not want you. Also if you plan to hunt more than the one weekend I call you and let you know we are there we do not want you. I will not give you the combo to gates so you will have to park on county rd and walk in a mile to get to camp,if you don't agree to this we don't want you. We are looking for that one SPECIAL turkey hunter. If you are that person feel free to pm me. Thanks.

By the looks of things, the days of turkey hunting on private land are just about over for me. As long as there are IDOTS willing to pay such prices the landowners will be charging it. You can't blame them for wanting to get all they can from the land but it sucks for the rest of us.

Dr. B

What they are wanting is to enjoy there high cost deer lease and have some turkey hunters cover their membership cost. When I say their I mean the prez.

And this does happen.

Just to rehash. I just got off the phone with a landowner who has 800 acres he wanted to lease. He wants $4/acre for turkey.

As he explained it. "All turkey hunters go two at a time. They don't ever go by themselves so I figure 800 acres will be good for 4, maybe 5 hunters. $4/acre split between 5 hunters isn't all that bad."

We had a very cordial conversation. I told him I rarely go with another person and he was shocked when I said that usually with turkey hunting it's about 500 acres per hunter is a good ratio. Just because the nature of the hunting where you have to move on birds ect, that you need more acres per hunter. He seemed to appreciate the info but was firm on his price.

Man, times have changed.

Dr. B

Not a turkey hunter, so what to the turkey hunters is a fair price per acre assuming it is not a complete cutover?

Start at $1/acre and go up or down based on quality, location, acreage, etc...

^^ this, and for sole turkey hunting rights.

There will be 23 total hunting weeks in 2014-15 for both deer and turkey. 16 for deer and 7 for turkey.

So take your lease price and divide by 23. Thats whats it costs per week to hunt.

Now take that number and multiply by 16. That the total price for deer hunting. Divide by the number of members you want. Thats the individual deer member's price.

Do the same for turkey by multiplying by 7 and then dividing by the number of members you want.

Try owning, paying taxes, and maintaining land. Then u will understand why landowners are asking what they consider a fair price for the privilege to use their land and harvest turkeys. If u don't want to play, just hunt public land and quit fussing