I feel y'all's pain. I'm bout at my wits end trying to find something more than a pine plantation within a couple hours of Pensacola. Only thing so far was a friend of a friend has 1,200 acres in pine orchard but damn it's too high for his poor white boy.

Says volumes about you

I was in a local club a few years ago that was run pretty good. We were constantly improving the land to the point that a developer got some of his cronies in the club who were able to bring him to hunt as a guest. You guessed it, he bought 1/3 of the acreage out from under us that included our actual camp house and cut us off from hunting this area following Christmas. After the season went out he went and bought another 1/3 of the property and we weren't allowed to turkey hunt it. We asked landowner for a refund with no success. That property had a lot of sweat equity in it, all for naught. It sucks but that's life.

Really

Good post PapaJ!

The club I'm in lost a 1,000 acres about 4 years ago.. An adjoining landowner outbid the club by almost 7 grand..

Get 2-3 buddies and find a 1000 acres somewhere. That's what we do and it works out great.

We have been paying 12.00 per acre on 3000ac. this year will be 17 years consider your self lucky???