Looking for a trophy club within 3 hours from Birmingham. Looking for a place with a camp house and $4-5k a year. Willing to pay more but will depend on members. Looking for low members, 4 1/2yr harvest management program. Anything similar or greater please let me know.

Go to TX and hunt a high fence operation.

Pm Squeaky and see if he will hav any openings - sounds like what u looking for

thats what I would suggest

Better have real expectations and ask yourself what a trophy is first and foremost.

Realistically speaking, if you are looking for deer that regularly break the 130” mark, I’d stay out of Clarke County. At least the parts of it I have hunted over the years. If you are looking for just a place to hunt mature deer, and measuring inches don’t matter, then there are some clubs in South Alabama that you may find an opening in from time to time.

Again, for anyone to be able to point you in the right direction, you have to provide a little bit better description for what you are looking for, less you may be disappointed with what you get if you go to some of these clubs.

Where you live, and the amount of time you’ve given to drive, bigger racks will be more normal in areas of Mississippi that you can get to than they are down here. I’m not familiar with areas north of you.

If inches are your thing to look for, I’d look at historical data for areas of the state that have produced large deer, then narrow down my search that way.

Again, we really need to know more about what you consider a “trophy” to honestly answer your question.

The clubs in the area where the mentioned persons have land leased are all supposed to be 4.5 years or older harvest. Two of the clubs in that area have low member to land ratios. As you mentioned in your post, if that’s all you are looking for then this area would meet your requirements.

Afoa.org

There is a trophy club in Sumter County that was needing members last year and is taking applications now for next season. Larry Torguson is the contact name.

Call Richard Hicks. 205 394 2988

Bump

trophy - mature, typically 4+yo whitetail that i've planted for, practiced QDM, trigger restraint when 3, have patterned, understand tendencies and have lots of pics of while developing

Bump, found a place in Macon county not from here. $5,500 for 9 guys on 2,400 acres. Only concern is hogs, a lot in that area. Looking here one last time before I pull the trigger.

Sounds like you found something in your ballpark. Yeah the hogs are plentiful in Macon.

I have found everyone agrees not to shoot anything under 140" and or 4.5 yo. UNTIL they get a big 2.5 yo or 125" buck in front of them and then its "i thought he was bigger" or "well he's outside the ears". Hard to find a group of guys who really hold out for a stud without any bs. Most guys have trouble passing up a big 2.5 or 3.5 but those are your shooters next year at a true trophy club. Even had guys try to sneak out smaller bucks when they realized they were under the size or age limit.

^^^^^ that entire sneaking out smaller bucks thing has always worried me. Cause its like you really dont know.

I did that when I was younger and got kicked out of the best club I’ve ever been in. I should have never been in a club as good as that one at that stage in my hunting life but I was and I messed it up. Hard lessons learned stick the best.

i've found it much easier letting deer go on my own lease. if they get killed by adjacent land owners then sobeit. i always questioned the qdm of the other members when i was in clubs.

You question their integrity or game management practices or both?

I am in a QCM coop for about a 2 square mile area and always hear shots but nobody says they have shot anything. I saw a deer hanging in one neighbors garage as I drove by and asked him later if he had killed anything and he said no so I know he is a damn liar and I suspect some of the others are too. Hard to trust anyone knowadays unless they are a close friend.

This happened to me. My neighbor told me his cousin which is the president of the club I joined next to my lease said he shot a big seven point I had been seeing on my property. I asked him if he killed anything and he said nope ain’t killed nothing. I’ve had several on camera on my place and find out the local neighbors shot them at night time under a light and you drive by and see the deer hanging up in the shed and ask them later about it and they pull that aw naw I ain’t had any luck

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