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I just go as a guest of my friend!

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I'm a member of the HNI hunting club.The guys I hang with there are mostly bowhunters, which is great because I bowhunt exclusively. It's a really great place to meet other hunters, young and old,from all over!!;)

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I am a member of a hunting club and have a super time. I bow hunt it before gun season as I am the only one that bowhunts. We have 8 members which only 4 actually hunts regular.Got an area set adide for those that wish to camp and usually every Fridayor Saturday some one is always cooking something for a big chow down. We've never had any trouble with members behavior and one of the coolest guys is 74 years old and don't hunt anymore due to health but is full of good stories and lots of outdoor knowledge.

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I am.

For deer.... bow.

For turkey.... shotgun.

For doves...shotgun.

For ducks.....shotgun.

Place to hunt mainly. Unless you are a landowner or rich most folks can't afford a decent size chunk of land to lease themselves... if you don't form a club then a club will come and lease it out from under you.

Quite often, its a good way to access more property than you would normally be able to afford on your own. A lot of times they will have a club house with all the basic facilities (shower, bed, storage, heat, etc) so that can save you a commute (which is 70 miles each way for me). Most of the clubs in SE VA are geared towards hunting deer with hounds and shooting buckshot.... and thats all a lot of the guys care about.... so if you are a bowhunter you can often have 1000 or quite often more acres to yourself or just you and a couple other folks. Same goes for turkeys or ducks. I know a few folks that join such clubs JUST to turkey hunt there. And most of the members are glad to have them because its more money for the club and one less person to perhaps shoot a big deer... save more for themselves I guess! And lastly, yes there can be some good fellowship and friendships developed. The club me and Rebecca are in is really more of just a lease now... cause we are really the only ones who ever use it. Its great.

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I was when I lived in Georgia. I belonged to 3 there. I may be joining one here but not sure yet. This gun club is thinking of taking on 3 bowhunters to help with their lease cost. We wouldn't beable to hunt during gun and muzzleloader season but would have the woods to ourselves for bow season.

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In Texas you almost need to lease. I'm on the "Attoyac Hunting Club" in East Texas. It's a family hunting lease, year round. About 15000 ac. spread out over about 20 miles. Most people hunt hogs, with dogs, about 50 gun hunt, and the reason I like it is only about 8 people bow hunt. Most are in there 40's to 60 es. and were getting a lot of young people interested. Most hunt the first two weekends of gun, then the rest of us have the place too ourselfs. No dog running during hunting season! We have a lot of old time partys for our kids and kids in the area, all payed for by the club. Hay rides, apple bobbin, pie throwing contests, sackraces etc. We also put on a great spook night in Oct.for all kids, we have had over 100 outside kids attend, teens and scared the crap out of them also. Year round lease and a lot of roads to ride 4-wheelers, easy to put on 100 miles just riding on a weekend.
Sorry for being so windy!!
Grant

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My lease is actually called a hunt club (coleman field hunt club) No clubhouse though, just some of us local guys/friends that live around the boundries of it. We do show up at each others houses to shoot the bull and what not. We try to improve the ground we hunt on and keep up with maintenance, im mostly a bowhunter but we have a mix of both. great bunch of guys to hang out with.

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im in 2 right now.. been in one for 3 years an havent steped foot on the properity... jus nice to know i have somewhere 2 go if needed... i hunt the one with bow muzzleloader an rifle...

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I am a member of a 1200 acre club in GA. I bowhunt, muzzleloader hunt and rifle hunt. I'm a member of a club primarily to have consistant access but also so I can take my 7 yr old with me in a relatively safe environment.

I also have a 750 acre lease in S. Illinois. A group of us GA and AL hunters got together and leased it. It saves us money and we can hunt our way. It is mostly bowhunting but a few of us will be doing shotgun and muzzleloader.

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I'm one of 20 that lease two different tracts totaling about 1000 acres. We kick off the season with the traditional Dove hunt the first week in Sept, bow hunt from mid Sept to mid October, rifle hunt from mid Oct till the day after thanksgiving and then hunt with dogs from the end of Nov through January 1. We also have some quail, small game, and predators.

I had hunting public land all my life. However,I started taking my sons hunting when they were 6 & 8 and the public land in NC was over crowded. ON public land, you don't know who you're hunting with.

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Took the words right out of my mouth.

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I belong to one. I hunt deer with bow and rifle and turkey with shotgun. the main reason i am a member is for more places to hunt. they have pretty good rules as far as keeping a good deer heard, so there are good opertunities to takenice bucks. I also like being around the guys during rifle season, witch is like a holiday around here. Also, there are not many bowhunters in the club, so me and my brother pretty much have run of the property during bow season.

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I'm a member of an archery club and a conservation club. I am also a member of the NRA (although I do not shoot guns very much at all). Our archery club owns 44 acres that can be hunted. I usually just hunt there though if I'm alone and don't feel like driving very far, maybe once or twice a season. The main reason I belong it to be around other archers and to have access to a beautiful 3-d course and a very nice elevated platform, it's a great place for my son and I to practice. Our club is I beleive is 60% traditional and 40% compound. I hardly ever see the compound guys around though.

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My dad has been hunting a piece of property for the last 20 years. The property is owned by AEP Ohio (American Electric Power) and they leased the property to a beef farmerwho then let them hunt. About 13 years ago AEP found out and told us that we could start a club and lease the 2400 acres and pay a certain amount of money every 12 months.It's been good since we have started the club. I have metsome great hunters and some that I just turn and walk away from with some of their stories:eek:. I think thereare 13 members of our club with only 5 or 6 that bow hunt. In case the lease ever falls through, we do have many other farms to hunt.

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My brother and I have a lease and we call it a hunt club, but it's really just the two of us paying too mush $$ to hunt.[&:]

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I belong to a 750 acre club in Anson co, NC

It is a bowhunting only club no firearms allowed

It is the best way to secure land - I also have permission to hunt one or two small properties

And then some doe mgmnt with Jeffrey

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The clubs around my hometown must be different than many as the club actually owns the land in most cases. I'm in a small but good club. We own 300 acres between 15 of us. We bought the thing about 10 years ago for $8000.00/each. Now I wouldn't sell for less than $50K:D;). Makes it nice when you know all the other hunters in your area.

At most there are usually only half dozen people out there (including guests). Many times my best hunting bud and me have the place to ourselves.

I usually only gun hunt there as it is now two hours from where I live and I've got access to better bowhunting properties closer to home.