Looking for small-to-medium size parcel in SE Alabama; Houston,Henry,Geneva,Dale,Coffee, Pike or Barbour counties.
Already have a fantastic place to hunt in Henry County, just looking for a little change of scenery on occasion. Willing to pay good money for the right spot. Any leads would be appreciated, hard to find any land to lease down this way.

Anybody? Still haven't found anything. Looking for small parcel, could be 30-40 acres or up to a few hundred.

If you're close enough and don't mind paying for an out of state license I would seriously look into GA. Several leasing companies (there's a stickies post at the top of this forum listing who they are) had a BUNCH of unleased places over there last year, as best I recall. Be worth checking out.



You can almost FORGET asking other people on here to look for land for you. They're all looking for it, too. Why would they tell you? Not being rude, just realistic. Motivation isn't there.

Thanks for the optimistic outlook! I understand my odds aren't very good, but it doesn't hurt to ask, you never know. I have a co-worker here in town that owns 80 acres between Montgomery and Bham. He doesn't hunt it (too far away), nobody does. He only goes up there once a year to check on it. Maybe somebody on here has a similar situation, land down here in the SE, too far away for them to hunt, so it just sits there unused. Or maybe they leased it out before but the lease holder opted out for the upcoming season.

Perhaps U R right, lack of motivation. Did I mention I was willing to pay a $100 finders fee for help locating a piece of property?

Therein lies your other problem with that kind of tract. If I knew of something like that, it would likely belong to a friend or aquaintance of mine. I'd know them and they'd know me but I don't know YOU. If you were a long time poster here and I had some kind of history to gauge your ethics, behavior, etc by that might be different.

In light of that I would (and I think most would agree) that they'd likely be worried to recommend someone else lease you something since they don't know you.

I don't say all this to be a ********. I just see these types of posts all the time and always wonder at the "waiting on my lottery numbers to hit" viewpoint it seems to indicate.

The places I've hunted I found. Either internet searches or through personal and business contacts I've spent 20+ years accumulating. I have worked my *** off finding some of them. I use the results of that diligence FOR ME, or selected friends, not random unknown curious strangers on the Internet. Good luck. You'll need it.

Hey I'm interested in hunting on that 80 acres between Montgomery and B'ham. How do I get on that piece of land?

I understand your viewpoint, however you would be wrong in my case. I already have 1500 acres to hunt in Henry County. The other 3 gentlemen and I that hunt it have been managing the land for 8 years now, and our results are impressive. We took property that was over-run with does, and that had been hunted with the "if it's brown it's down" philosophy for decades, and turned it into a fantastic piece of hunting property. The previous 20 years or so had yielded only 1 deer in excess of 120". Since we started managing it, we have taken 8 deer over 130", with 3 of them going over 140". No bad for a property only 30 minutes from Florida.

About now you are probably asking why I would be looking for another piece of property if my existing hunting land is so good. Well, I will tell you. The rut on our property happens around Christmas, and is usually wound down by the first week of January. The last 3 weeks is usually pretty slow. In contrast, most of the surrounding area has a late January early Feb rut. I figured that I am in a somewhat unique position to live in an area that has 2 distinct ruts, and that if I could find another small property in the January rut area, that I could spend the last few weeks in the season hunting another rut, thus increasing my odds to kill a big one. Nothing sinister, no need for me to hit the lottery. If I can't find anything this year, no big deal, I will just continue to work on it until I do find something.

As far as you questioning the reasoning behind asking a bunch of total strangers for hunting land, I can totally understand, however I look at it like this: it costs me nothing but a few minutes of time to post on the forum and ask. If I get no response, I have lost nothing. If I do happen to get a response, I may end up with something very valuable to me. Sounds like reasonable odds to me: nothing to loose and everything to gain. I won't even be out the $1 for a lottery ticket!

For the gentleman asking about the 80 acres between Montgomery and Bham, I mentioned last week to my co-worker that he could probably lease out that property fairly easily, and he said he had never really considered it before, but would think about it. I will ask him again this week, and if he decides to go that route, will be happy to forward his contact info to you.

How does "over run with does" and Brown it's down" fit into the same land? DO y'all do any year around feeding? JW

20 something years ago up until about 10 or 12 years ago (forgive me if my years aren't exactly correct), Alabama only had a few weekends that you could legally kill does. They then transitioned to a 2-week long doe season before finally opening it up to a season-long doe season. Even after the doe season was "liberalized", many hunters still resisted shooting very many does, preferring instead to shoot every year-old buck that wandered by. That is what I meant by "if it's brown, it's down". The first year we started the management program, the biologist issued us 50-plus doe tags to thin them out. The next year we got 30-something, and since then, we have managed to take our goal of does every year without the tags, which is usually in the 25 range.

We do some year-round feeding, usually planting a mixture of soy beans and cow peas. About 1/3 of the land is farm land, so a good portion of it is planted in peanuts every year by the local farmers. We do not do any supplemental feeding (protein pellets or corn), although I do pour corn out in front of the deer cameras during July and August while we are taking our summer time pics.

Of course, we plant oats and wheat for the winter, and last year started mixing in some clover to help with the early Spring period.

We could carpool. I'll drive.

Good luck bud. Seriously hope you find what you are looking for. You seem like a decent enough person.. And I'm sure if you do get a lead then no one is just going to go into a lease agreement without meeting and getting a good judgement of your character. I say that to say this.. There are just to many grown men on this forum that just want to try and pick a part every little thing about people's posts and just so many know it alls on here who can't wait to tell someone why they won't, or how they are doing something wrong etc. Its childish bs. People always want to one up and have pissing contest with others who have done nothing but post a simple question with no intent to get into some big debate. It's whatever though I guess.. I just am glad that I have came across other great and very informative forums.. And it blows my mind that there is literally zero responses to post like this. And it's a much bigger forum.. I mean just going through and looking and the pety responses on here is sick.. Calling some one out on the spelling of acres in one of the post under this section just for example.. Like I said it is what it is but why not make this a great place and help educate others and be men instead of acting like teen girls and pick apart every single thing.. I'm sure someone will refer me to the "rules" and say i gotta have tough skin.. But come on that's bs too. Bunch of men in here think they know everything there is to know about everything and gotta tell everyone else

It is hard to find any hunting tracts in SE Bama. Maybe it would be better to concentrate on joining a club and keeping your eyes open.

That's basically what I am doing right now, already have a great place to hunt, just keeping my eyes open for an additional spot in the extended-season area. That way I could hunt my regular property up until the second week of January, then move in on my new spot for the last few weeks of the season and the January rut. I figure by then, hunting pressure on adjoining properties may have a lot of deer holed-up on the property I have left alone, and that combined with the late rut may give me a chance at a good, mature buck. You are totally correct, land down here in the SE corner of the state is VERY tough to come by.

We are working on getting another tract or two for our club, if we do we will need a couple of more hunters. In the Troy area.

I appreciate that, but joining a club isn't exactly what I had in mind. Can't see paying the same dues as other members if I'm only going to be hunting the property for 3-4 weeks at the end of the season, but I'm sure the other members wouldn't mind! Also would defeat the purpose of leaving the property alone until the rut, as I'm sure the other members would be hunting the entire season. Thanks though!

Look at plum creek and Meade

Plum Creek put 24 on last Thursday and they were gone by noon the next day.

Yes, I keep an eye on the timber company websites, but even the closest properties to me are 1.5 to 2 hours away, and there are very few of them, most are much further

try charles patterson of charles patterson trucking. Got several lease's around here mostly farm land. Kinda high, but I have seen some of the leas's go down in price closer to hunting season if they didnt get leased. Usually range from 50 -100's of acres. Maybe he'll have something that'll work for ya. If he does dont forget that hun-done

Funny you should mention him, contacted him back in January and spoke to him several times over the Spring about some land. Called him a few weeks ago when he said he had some land available, so sent him my email, but never got anything from him. Called him back to verify email, which he did, and said he sent it again, but still never got anything from him. Finally just gave up.

Thanks for the info, though, that's exactly the kind of lead I have been looking for. Hopefully the next one can successfully use email!