WOW!!! That is unbelieveably high. I only pay $400 for 3500 acres on the Eastern Shore. Is that a typo or is it really only 250 acres? Unless you are stuck on this spot I would dump that club.I hunt in Northeast North Carolina as well and some of the dues are high $550 at one cluband $850 at another but the first club is around 3600 acres and the second is 15,000 acres. There dues are based on a set price per acre and # of members. The price per acre on logging land has gone up considerably in the past 5 years from$3-$4 dollars per acre to up to $7 acre in some areas. Your situation smells like greed on somebodies part.Go to N.C Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries site and they list thousands of public access acres forvery low fees, that's assuming you are even talking about N.C. based on your info to the left of the post. I have found some honey holes on public land, ecspecially military installments, if you can get access.