FW gets money from oil and gas leases. A few extra dollars from us wouldn't help much for the money needed to buy property. I heard 3500 people signed up for an SOA hunt last year. I'd like to see more opened up like the regular old go in there and hunt when you want to type places.....and don't open the gates for folks to tear up the roads, get lost and wander off the property.
I get where your coming from in the amount of money it takes to buy land, especially the size tracts we’re talking about. I believe currently around 250,000 all game licenses are sold in Alabama every year. If each one had say $2 tacked on, that would be $500,000 a year. $5 apiece would be $1.25 million. I don’t know a lot about the federal matching but unless I’m wrong it could be dollar for dollar. Don’t you think in 5 or 10 years that money could do some good?
I won an SOA hunt the first year they did it at Uchee Creek. I was alternate on 2 others I don’t think a lot of people knew about it yet. It was great, me and a friend had 3-4 hundred acres, I saw over 10 a day including a big 6 that didn’t meet the buck requirement. The deer were very unpressured. It was a cool 4 day experience. I would like to see more open land too but it seems like they can’t really buy large tracts like that anymore. I think that’s why SOA started. I was a high quality experience that I prob won’t win again for 10 years lol. But if more properties like it are bought odds will only go up. I would like to see money go towards large tract open land too, as long as it’s purchased not leased.
