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Re: Question for Hunting Club Members
[Re: Broken Arrow H.C]
#3881342
03/20/23 05:17 PM
03/20/23 05:17 PM
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Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
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Booner
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Montgomery
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That's a tough call. 1 member/150 acres is plenty for deer hunting. However, that needs to be increased to about 400 acres per turkey hunter. On that amount of acreage I would limit the number to 5 turkey hunters max and no guests unless they are sitting with the member. To keep it fair, I'd start with the members who have been in the longest and work down. Making sure that the member will actually hunt and not just take up a membership for a kid off at school or whatever. In the future, may want to state that turkey memberships are full at the present time. Those folks that want to turkey hunt can pay an extra $300/year. If they ever decide they can't afford the extra, their name goes down the list. Just free-wheeling here.
AKA: “Dr. B”
Aldeer #121
8-3-2000
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris
1938-2017
UGA Class of 1960
BS/MS Forestry
LTJG, USNR
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Re: Question for Hunting Club Members
[Re: RCHRR]
#3881555
03/20/23 10:14 PM
03/20/23 10:14 PM
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Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 11,842
In a Van, down by the River
quailman
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Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 11,842
In a Van, down by the River
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First come first serve. If you snooze you loose. Let the Turkey hunters hash it out.
Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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Re: Question for Hunting Club Members
[Re: Broken Arrow H.C]
#3881643
03/21/23 07:00 AM
03/21/23 07:00 AM
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Posts: 2,598
Coalfire Creek
lectrode
10 point
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10 point
Joined: May 2013
Posts: 2,598
Coalfire Creek
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I was in a club in Pickens Co a few years ago. We had about 3000 ac and a decent, not great turkey population. there were a couple of years when we only had 1 or 2 gobbling turkeys. Guess what section every member wanted to hunt. Do this x 10 !!!
You haven't been blocked until you've been flock blocked!!!
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Re: Question for Hunting Club Members
[Re: Broken Arrow H.C]
#3898021
04/18/23 02:20 PM
04/18/23 02:20 PM
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Posts: 357
Auburn, AL
Antlerfluke
4 point
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4 point
Joined: Mar 2017
Posts: 357
Auburn, AL
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You're the president and you're just now figuring this out? First of all, never change rules AFTER money has been accepted for membership. In turkey hunting, you talk about some serious hunters? Turkey hunters are SERIOUS!!! You're just going to have to divide up territories and the members have to sign out for each territory. If a hunter gets goes outside of his signed-out territory, that may be reason for expulsion. If a member wants to change locations, he can either call someone at the sign-out board or travel back to the sign-out board and pick another territory.
Guests are NOOOOO!!!!! But, IF... IF guests are allowed, NEVER will a guest be allowed to hunt his/her own bird and MUST stay within 100 yards of the member.
Rules are rule... not guidelines!!! And, breaking rules should have extreme consequences!
Again, you should have had all this chit figured out BEFORE turkey season. You're the president!
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Re: Question for Hunting Club Members
[Re: Broken Arrow H.C]
#3898270
04/19/23 08:06 AM
04/19/23 08:06 AM
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Posts: 11,721
Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
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Sylacauga, AL
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I'm curious as to how it's going without any rules this season? I would suspect that it's not getting much hunting pressure by this point of the season.
I've been in several clubs over the years with similar ratios of land and turkey hunters. I thought the best approach was to just be first come first serve without any rules. Members were told to park their vehicle so it could easily be seen and if someone beats you there, go somewhere else. One wise guy parked an old car at his favorite spot and left it there, but everyone soon figured it out and ignored it.
A different club decided to require members to sign in for an area on Saturday, but just go where you wanted during the week. That worked reasonably well.
The bad thing about requiring turkey hunters to sign out an area is that if you don't hear a turkey, you wanna go somewhere else. People will understand that they can't on a crowded club, but if you are the only hunter on a weekday the sign in rule wrecks the hunt, and for no good reason. Most hunters will be respectful of fellow members if they know someone is already in an area. Throw the ones who won't out of the club and keep rules to a minimum would be my advice.
I wouldn't worry about not having enough turkeys for everyone to kill one. If you don't have a lot of turkeys, everyone is not going to kill one. Some will probably kill more than one. No rules will change that, as turkeys are not concerned with fairness.
Good luck figuring it out.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Question for Hunting Club Members
[Re: Broken Arrow H.C]
#3898802
04/20/23 08:07 AM
04/20/23 08:07 AM
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Posts: 10,186
Scottsboro, Al
jbatey1
Lucky Bastage
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Lucky Bastage
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Scottsboro, Al
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Well, are they in a Hunting club that runs year round or just a club that only runs during deer season?
Are the guys that aren’t going to pay to turkey hunt still gonna have access to check their deer cameras, hang stands or etc during the spring? If so, be ready for the turkey hunters to bitch and moan about that ,too.
IMO, they all either have access to turkey hunt or you need to cut the memberships in half now and double the dues…..which is what I would do anyways.
The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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Re: Question for Hunting Club Members
[Re: jbatey1]
#3901991
04/26/23 04:43 PM
04/26/23 04:43 PM
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ford150man
Old Mossy Horns
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Well, are they in a Hunting club that runs year round or just a club that only runs during deer season?
Are the guys that aren’t going to pay to turkey hunt still gonna have access to check their deer cameras, hang stands or etc during the spring? If so, be ready for the turkey hunters to bitch and moan about that ,too.
IMO, they all either have access to turkey hunt or you need to cut the memberships in half now and double the dues…..which is what I would do anyways.
^^This^^. Are you going to raise dues for squirrel hunters, or dove hunters? If you’re going to do it to the turkey hunters you have to do it for everyone. Easiest thing is cut membership and raise dues.
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.-Mark Twain
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Re: Question for Hunting Club Members
[Re: poorcountrypreacher]
#3902255
04/27/23 09:03 AM
04/27/23 09:03 AM
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Posts: 1,416
Northport
Bamarich2
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Joined: Oct 2012
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Northport
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I'm curious as to how it's going without any rules this season? I would suspect that it's not getting much hunting pressure by this point of the season.
I've been in several clubs over the years with similar ratios of land and turkey hunters. I thought the best approach was to just be first come first serve without any rules. Members were told to park their vehicle so it could easily be seen and if someone beats you there, go somewhere else. One wise guy parked an old car at his favorite spot and left it there, but everyone soon figured it out and ignored it.
A different club decided to require members to sign in for an area on Saturday, but just go where you wanted during the week. That worked reasonably well.
The bad thing about requiring turkey hunters to sign out an area is that if you don't hear a turkey, you wanna go somewhere else. People will understand that they can't on a crowded club, but if you are the only hunter on a weekday the sign in rule wrecks the hunt, and for no good reason. Most hunters will be respectful of fellow members if they know someone is already in an area. Throw the ones who won't out of the club and keep rules to a minimum would be my advice.
I wouldn't worry about not having enough turkeys for everyone to kill one. If you don't have a lot of turkeys, everyone is not going to kill one. Some will probably kill more than one. No rules will change that, as turkeys are not concerned with fairness.
Good luck figuring it out.
Our lease is comprised of a lot of land of a main road that's accessed by gas well roads. The sign in system for us is to attach a card via carabineer clip to the lock on the gate when you drive in... if someone pulls up to the gate and sees a card, that spot is taken. This system, however, only works if you've got a lot of roads on the property.
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