I had no idea. Well, while he was in Camden yesterday, he could've made some contacts!

Dr. B

That is what I was trying to say!

You did better the first time. Too wet outside to do much. What else is better than having a phsycological discussion on Aldeer

Well yeah, because you're wrong lol.

There's some folks come out of Florida with a lot of jack in their pockets to lease land. I've tracked for several clubs where I was blown away at how many acres some were leasing in prime areas. One club had 8 guys on right at 4500 acres.....in the middle of the good stuff too. I know it sucks from the standpoint of driving lease prices up but how can you really blame folks if they're loaded with money and want to hunt. All of the ones I've tracked for have been very friendly folks just hunting like everyone else.....except seeing a whole lot more!

Still though, $40 bucks an acre is unheard of.

CNC,if I remember correctly you are in Macon Co. My neighbor bought some land there last summer solely for hunting. Had a few things stolen over the summer. He went back after this past season. Pulled up to his gate and it was GONE!! STOLEN!! Went on in to his camp and they had stolen everything but his travel trailer.....but they did get all the wheels off of it. My question is, do y'all have a "cost of doing business" y'all figure into lease prices there?

Yep�..Absentee landowners are prime targets out here. These local guys form �crews� and turn it into a money making venture until they get caught. He�ll have to do something to either catch the folks doing it or do something to keep himself from being easy pickins.

Yeah the guys I know that hunt out there don't even lock the door to there shed/cabin or trailer any more because they were tired of having the door kicked in. Whoever was doing it was only steeling liquor in food so they started peeing in the empty liquor bottles and took the rest home with them needless to say they haven't had a problem with break ins recently

Try and get into a hunt club south of Orlando for less than $8-10K per year. I was blown away at how much those guys were getting for pine & palmetto savanah with 110 pound bucks. No wonder they come up to Alabama and Georgia, it's a good deal for them.

Seems like a good thread to share this story - I went on a turkey hunting trip in the Midwest and the outfitter was still furious with a hunter he'd hosted earlier. This guy is a starting QB in the NFL and everyone here would recognize his name.

The outfitter showed the QB the property and the lines, and told him not to cross the fence under any circumstances. He picked him up later in the morning and the QB had killed a turkey. He said the turkey was about 300 yds across the fence and wouldn't come, so he crossed the fence and got closer and killed the turkey.

He then couldn't understand why the outfitter was mad at him. He told him, "But I had to cross the fence or I wouldn't have killed the turkey." The fact that he might have caused the outfitter to lose his lease and damage his reputation seemed irrelevant to him; he felt entitled to kill the turkey.

There has no doubt been times in human history when the poor needed to poach in order to survive, but I don't think that happens very often in the USA today. A poacher is much more likely to just be somebody with an attitude of entitlement and no regard for other people.

I'm assuming it wasn't Michael Vick

Only if him and his homeys had started a turkey fighting ring.

Wasn't him.

Poaching is just like stealing... no different. Living outside of town isn't what it use to be. In my lifetime I've seen it go from people who had never locked their doors.... to people not being able to keep anything that isn't bolted and then welded down and sometimes that doesn't stop it.

Why? Alabama's countryside is slap covered up with trash IMO. Both white and black. Everywhere you go.

Need to figure out a way to move them to Mississippi where they belong.

Know what they did to folks that got caught poaching on the King's land in the olde country, right? Hung 'em by the neck 'til they was dead!!

son had a piece of property leased paying $25 per acre. the lease was for 2 years and than it was put up for bid. if you had the piece and someone else bid on it you had the right to match the bid. Someone bid $45.00 per acre and son let it go, he couldn't afford that. There are folks out there or companies out there willing to pay big bucks to lease land.

yall act like folks are stealing from out of your pocket. You may lease the land but them deer belong to the state. If i have a state hunting license and shoot one of the side of the road, thats my business.