Starting A Hunt Club in Va.
 

I have an opportunity to lease about 700 Ac. in Buckingham Co. and was seeing if any of you guys were interested in trying to do this. I have not seen the land yet and I'm still talking to toguy aboutthe lease.If this happens I need to act on it pretty fast. I'm looking for about 8-10 people to get this started. Serious inquires only!
Thanks ,Todd

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YES!!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D
Please send me a PM with more details

Butch A.

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Here we go again![8D]

Seriously,,best of luck,,right now I'm so broke I can't even pay attention so I'm out of consideration, but I guarantee you get lots of hopeful members on this.

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Hm... about 80 miles to richmond where I use to hunt, ok ok I'm interested please email details if you have

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I'm interested, please send a email with the details.
Thanks

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hmmm--i am already in a hunt club in buckingham co. this will be my second year. last year--all i did was scout. i never hunted there. this is around 400 acres of err-PINES[:@]. i do plan to hunt this year some(hopefully). i am already in 2 other clubs(fauquier & fluvanna) plus i have around 5 other tracts to hunt. i would love to meet some of you someday(butch a). the club where i belong to is around the "midway" area of buckingham. or at least that what they call it. its midway betwwen scottsville and some other town on rt 20

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Hi Todd,

Moved to Va from Michigan and I dont have a place to hunt.I am interested in joining your club .Send all the info you can .How much ? Dogs ? Rifle or shotgun etc ...Thanks ,

Mike

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Bump....

Guys, let me bump this back up to the top. I talked to Todd yesterday at work. He was going to check out the tract of land in Buckingham county on Wednesday to see what it is and where it is and what it looks like and all.

WE NEED AT LEASE 8-10 PEOPLE.... WHO'S IN?!?!?

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I am interested in the hunt club. Live in Fredericksburg but am down in the area roughly 2 weekends a month. Send me detail on who, what, cost, and location.

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Butch,

Just need the details etc.

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I know... It looks promising, but then, we don't know any fine details yet. The whole place could actually be a pine forest with zero deer, you know?

Not to hijack this thread, but with me, I've been busy investigating the controversial "Sunday hunting" thing and the senate bill SB175. Word has it, it isgoing to be squashed again and again and again and again.... There are way too many opponents and way too much politics involved. I spoke with VA Farm Bureau and they told me the nitty gritty and how farmers, private land owners, and the VA Farm Bureau themselves are 100% totally, OPPOSED to allowing Sunday hunting. Heck, even the VA Deer Hunters Organization is opposed to it! I even spoke with Sen. Stolle's office in VA Beach and got no where.:eek:

So, now being extremely frustrated and a little pi$$ed off, I am looking at a hunt club in VA orsave my money and takea big out-of-state trip this season to Ohio or Kentucky or West Virginia.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....... [:@]

Butch A.

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I would try to keep the members at around 5 - 6 with no visitors on a tract that size.

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YOU all will be happy to know that buckingham co just passed the rifle ordinance(for 2005). that was one of the reasons i didnt hunt here last year.

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Rifle ordinance? You mean they passed so you can userifles larger than a .22 for hunting, etc..etc...???? I know a bunch of counties that don't allow rifles.

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Hey Todd did you get a chanceto look atthe property? What did you think of it?

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Well guys I looked at the property yesterday. It doesn't look to bad. About 60% of the land has been clear cut in the last 2 or 3 years. About 75 acres is planted pine and the rest is creek drainage that has hardwoods in it. There is a good road system that dissects through the land.The part that is clear cut hassome tree tops that was left over. There are no food plots planted. I tooka lot ofdigital pictures butI don'tknow how to share all of them with you guys. Callor PMme for directions and anymore info.

Thanks Todd

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The land is in Appomattox Co. not Buckingham Co.

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Thanks, Todd... PM is on the way. I think I know exactly where the land is. It'son the border of Appomattox and Buckingham, but just inside Appomattox county,near the state forest. Right?

Butch A.

Edit: My bad.... I checked the road atlas... Thanks for the PM. I know exactly where it is now in Appomattox county!

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Butch,

forward me info as you get it, let's make this happen!

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I will.... From what I gather after talking with Todd and getting PM's and so on.... we all need to act on this pretty quick, or else some other guys might slip in and snatch itout from under us.

If I got time on Sunday, I'm going to take a drive out there and check it out too. I suggest we all start planning something soon and PM'ing Todd and/or calling Todd, since he was the first to take the reigns on this.

CAN WE GET A HEAD COUNT??? WHO IS PRIMARILY INTERESTED? SPEAK UP!!!!

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Butch, sunday sounds great to me to view the property let me know for sure you have my number.

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Will do....

For Todd: Thanks man, I got the fax of the 716 acre tract of land. Yup... it's exactly where I thought. It's funny too because I was a stones throw from the area last time I was out there looking around and scouting around, and I didn't even realize it!!! :eek:

Looks great.... For everyone: I will take Todd's fax and scan it as an image file here at work and then save it on the network drive, then move it to my desktop PC, where I can easily email the image to anyone who wants it.

Butch A.

Edit: All done... Scanned to a .jpg image and also drew details and things. Also, went into microsoft terraserver website and did a snapshop of the topographical map of the area and rough drew the outline of it. PM me for details to the files, and I'll give you the address of them on my website.

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Just got transfered here to VA from WA and I am very interested in this if there are any openings still available. Thank you for any information you could give me.

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Butch...got the info thanks... I would be interested in seeing it firsthand

Dei an Ducks.. Let me be the First to welcome you to the boards.... as well as Va!!!! Where in Va are you located???

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Hey guys.... I just got back (8/13 @ 4:50pm). I decided to take the drive out to the hunting tract of land that Todd found. It's true.... It's right there off Route 60 towards Amherst.
I left my house at 1:15pm after grabbing something to eat and a can or two of diet coke for the trip.
I took the new 288 extension around the western end of Richmond, down to Route 60, and let it fly straight on out from there. I arrived at the main gate at 3:00pm. (total drive 1:45 minutes).

I had my old Canon A-1 35mm SLR camera with me to finish up a roll of film. The place is just like how Todd said it was. Clear cuts all over the place. Lumber trails here and there. But there's a lot of nice hardwood trees and small meanderings creek beds too.

The place is extremely easy to get to too. I mean, if you can't find it, then, well... I don't know what to say... ;)

For the size of the place (716 acres) we could a whole crew of VA guys to hunt it and really get a nice club going.

Oh yeah... I know Dave (VASavage270) will tease me about my "antiques" - my old '96 PSE bow and now my "old school" manual focus Canon A-1 camera. Hey it still works and takes great pictures. You all will have to wait for the roll to get developed and then I'll scan the photos.

Take care!
Butch

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Hey Butch... dont let Dave give you too hard of a time about your fine classic equipment... I mean he does own a Mossberg ... he hasnt even moved up to the adult shotguns yetj/k Dave

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OUCH!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha..... LMAO!!!!

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Hahahaha,

That's right I'm keeping my moosberg pump it does what is needed.

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Update again: Hey guys.... I finished the roll of film and went up to Rite Aid to their 1-hour develop thing. I got the photos back and everything is great. There are 6 photos that I took of the tract of land. But I had to cut it short yesterday with the cameraas it was clouding up and was just starting to sprinkle.

Anyway, I am annoyed at myself right now because I can't scan the photos at home.... I have that little USB flatbed scanner and stuff, but where is the CD with the drivers?...in my laptop case at work!!! {Oh yay, way to go Butch!!! Duh!!!!} :eek:[:-]I last used the scanner on my company laptop and left the CD in the case.TOMORROW - I will scan the photos in sequence and will (Edit: email them to anyone who wants them in a zip file).

Butch A.

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I'm interested! hey Butch, pass some info my way.

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Hey Reggie(bowhuntr09).... Long time to hear! Yeah man, this hunt club thing that Todd discovered is pretty cool. It's way out 60 towards Amherst and is 716 acres of land! We gotta act fast and get a bunch of us together to jump on this, or someone might sneak in and snatch it up out from under us....

I'd say to send a PM to Todd as he is the one who found it and knows all the details.

Butch

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I am interested in the hunt club. I just need to know what I have to do to join and whom to contact. I have been hunting Virginia since I was 12. In my 30's now. Just let me know who to contact and you can count me in.

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I need a head count of who is definitely going to do this. If I can get at least 7 people to sign up for this I will go ahead and sign the lease.The price is still up in the air and will ultimately depend on how many people do this. I think we should have about 12 people max. What do you guys think? PM meor call me if you have any more questions.
Todd

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I'm interested, but it depends on the cost per person, what types of rules will be in place, etc.. I have not seen any of those details discussed here as of yet. The overall description of the property sounds good, but before I commit to a cash outlay I want to know the fine print. Sound fair?

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Same here. We need a bunch of people, IMHO. You see, with me, my wife controls the family finances and stuff... {you know how things like this can go....} [:-][&o][:'(]:( If we end up with only like 4 dedicated guys, my wife will probably be having a fit. :eek:

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Did everyone receive the info that I sent out?

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nope I didnt

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Todd,

I gave Butch an outline of members vs that of pricing in which we estimated. Price is a key factor too the masses IMO, don't want to put a strain upon any one hunter ya know. 12 sounds like a good number to me. I would probably max out to 20

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I didn't. I sent you my email in a PM.

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I did. I got the Word document that you did up. It looked good to me!