I'm curious to know how many of you lease land for hunting ? How much land do you lease and what is the cost per member ?

We lease about 1200 acres, we pay anywhere from $3-$4 per acre. We pay $250 a year.

In my part of Va, land is very expensive to lease. One club that I hunt with has 2500 acres and about 35 members the dues are $425 per member a year. The rest of the land that I hunt is small wood lots that I get to hunt for free.

$3-$4 per acre * 1200 acres = $3600-$4800 per year. Where does $250 come from?

TODDP, HE MEANS $250 PER PERSON

The only time I hunted lease land was with a hunting club and the dues were $1,000.00 a year . They had land all over the state of Ca . This was back in the seventys .

We lease 400 acres of solid timber in a riverbottom. The first time we leased it we paid $4 per acre for a full year of hunting (deer and turkeys). Last year we paid $4 per acre for just the deer hunting. The turkey hunting lease will cost us an additional fee that we are unsure of. I have other properties I hunt for free,so if the price goes too high, I will be out.

$4.OO an acre, man am I jealous!
One farm in adams co., Ill.= 10.00 an acre.
One farm in pike co., Ill.= 40.00 an acre.
And thats for bowhunting only! But, I would`nt give them up for the world!

10 bucks an acre will get you a decent piece of land here. Super prime land well managed with high opportunity on big deer you might spend 20 bucks an acre.

40 bucks an acre in Pike county eh???You can have that theres no way I would pay 4000 bucks to hunt 100 acres when i could hunt a large plantation fully guided and outfitted twice a year and still have enough left to buy a new Mathews.40 bucks an acre is ridiculous .Hell youd have to come up with a 150 grand a year to hunt what I hunt here at that rate.

Well hatracked, I agree with you that 40 bucks an acre is alot of money! Here is how it breaks down. 250 acres costs us 10,000.00
Season is almost eight weeks long. 12 friends split this lease=835.00 per person. Never more than 6 hunters on it at a time, so its not overcrowded. I am sure that where you hunt in SC is some very good hunting, but I can also bet this... it ain`t pike co., illinois!<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>