Benefits of say owning 40-100 acres, leasing 200=400 acres or being in a club with 1,000 to 3,000 acres. What say ye? Also, I am open to all three next year somewhere between Andalusia and Brewton next year. So keep me in mind too.

Just a shot from the peanut gallery here, but if you own or lease, you're the boss. If you're in a club you ain't. But 40-100 acres isn't a huge place and you can deal with a lot of external factors beyond your control.

also if you lease or own your own land you get to decide who hunts and who doesn't

I think all 3 are reasonable. I don't think I'd want to be in a huge club though.

Huge club with few members

I'm lookiong at a couple of tracts Monday, ONE IS 55 Acres and the other is 68... tired of drunks in clubs

They all have there good and bad. Strictly for hunting if I could afford it I would lease 500 - 1,000 acres by myself or join a club with that many acres per member. Or if I could buy 250-500 acres. Unless I could find something less than 100 with neighbors that don't hunt.

I had a lease by myself for a while and the control was awesome, but not having somebody to share the work load with was not. I found myself paying to do a lot of jobs because I didn't have the time. This made that lease very expensive. I don't mind paying a few thousand dollars to have somebody improve land I own, but it stings a little to pay to improve somebody else land.

Depends on the club your talking about joining. If you can get paired with like minded people, you will be all set. If you own the land or own the lease, you have control of what happens on your hunting land. People's hunting styles vary so much that it is hard to get in with the right group of people that you can afford to hunt with.

If you can find the right piece of property in the right area.....I'd take owning 100 acres all day long over the other options. For anyone in the market for a 100-800 acre piece of land....there's several for sale around here that outta pretty awesome places to hunt.

I was thinking along the same lines as you guys. I figured it would be good fodder for discussion. I would like to own about 500 acres one day, but leasing is a much more viable option for me though. I have been in some great clubs and some terrible clubs.

Owning is the way to go but not everyone can do that. Clubs are a pain because good ones, meaning few hunters and a lot of land with good deer management and everyone being on the same page, are hard to find.

The biggest issue with having your own lease is pouring money and labor into it for a few years and having the lease pulled by the owner

My goal is a hybird approach. I'd like to own a small piece to build a cabin and have one or two nice private food plots on on next (or close) to my hunting club.

Owning is the only one you have control of. The other 2, the land owner controls the land and timber management thus restricting a persons wildlife management.

From a hunting perspective, club all day.... Something with a few like minded individuals leasing a big piece of land. Owning or leasing small tracts, you're at the mercy of your neighbors.

What would you consider a big piece of land.

Been there it sucks.

Depends on the terrain and how thick it is. More than 2k, ideally 3-5k with 1 member per 6-800 acres.

Not to say that small pieces can't be very very good, but once again, you're at the mercy of your neighbors. Your neighbors determine how good it's is or how bad it is.