Having been an Alabama resident for all of my life I've never had any problems finding hunting leases. I am moving to Beaumont and wanted to have a few leases lined up to look at upon my arrival. All responses will be appreciated. Thanks.

HayesUA, welcome to Southeast Texas! I live in Port Neches, a couple of miles south of Beaumont. We have a lot of hunting clubs in east Texas, they are relativly inexpensive. Some are better than others, so you will just have to shop around. There are lots of free National Forest lands too, and also "Type II" hunting land. Which for 40.00 a year you have access to thousands of acres of hunting. While these places can be good, you would be much better off getting on a hunting club, less people and better hunting!I'd be glad to meet you and perhaps show you around a bit, when will you be moving?

Welcome to East Texas!! Im from League City- southeast of Houston between Houston and Galveston and hunt north of Beaumont about an hour near Corrigan.

Most Beaumont guys hunt the pineywoods of East Texas on clubs of 100-10,000 acres in size which are leased paper company land- International Paper, Temple Eastex, Molphus, and others lease their land for $3 to $5 / acre per year to clubs. Mostly its pine plantations uplands/ hardwood drainages.

Usual practice is to have a member for every 100 acres or so and charge around $500-$1000 per year but you do get year round access. Loads of deer but unfortunately many clubs don't practice Quality Buck Management and too many young bucks get harvested. My club is 6600 acres and practices trophy management but we charge members close to $2000 per year and have a long waiting list.

My best advice is check the newspaper and just ask around- make friends with somebody in a club and get invited to join when somebody drops off- there is usually some turnover in these clubs every year.

Feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] if you have other questions and want some more local "intelligence".