Wow,I have never paid for hunting on land and I can't relate. I guessI am spoiled;I have two farms that I hunt and the landowners ASKED me if I wanted to hunt them and me and Hoytgirl have sole permission.

cardeer hit the nail on the head, sadly.[&o]

The club I was in for 3yrs was $500 X 70 members on 1600acres owned by Proctor & Gamble and it was next to San Pedro WMA which is 55,000 acres.

On the last day of the third yearit went to $800 and I said Adios!

I would have expected better than that from you Cardeer , Frankly , you disappoint me with that attitude since you're a "self sufficient" kind of guy .

I haven't given up on the concept of free hunting , personally . I still go out and solicit free hunting and am granted access to nearly every place that I've asked permission from . Some of you really depress me with your attitudes , it's obvious to me that some of you have sat on your rumps and haven't even tried to get access , your talk of leasing is all too telling . Leasing is the lazy man's way of getting what you want , and it sickens me . Is bailing a little hay just too much to ask ? Are you too proud to string fence ? God forbid that you should earn "free" access , you might break a nail or something . Go ahead , make the leasing agents job easier by waving dollars , next year you'll be competing head to head with them and they'll win . Contribute to the monster and it will surely grow . Or you could do like me and trade your sweat for access , you'd be surprised by how many farmers respect that more than a buck .

I would pay and be happy with that price. My club sold out to developers and I can't find another one thay are all full and have a waiting list[&o]

Pretty much unheard of up here. Everything is "free" with the odd guy leasing something. That means one guy gives the landowner a few hundred bucks for exclusivety. That would really suck if it came to that around here. It's a tough go getting spots but if you get connected then you're off and usually have more than you can hunt. $0 an acre and a bottle at X-mas, some meat after the season and that's it.

It sure makes me gratefull to be able to hunt thousands of acres of private land for free since it is Illegal to charge any feefor hunting access in Alberta or Saskatchewan.

never had to pay to hunt anywhere i have hunted. i guess i should consider myself lucky. WOW ! ! paying to hunt someones land.

Yes, I would consider you one of the lucking ones, here in my parts of the woods all the land is own by big timber com. and thay make you pay and than some of them will came in and cut trees doing hunting season. But you still have to beone of the lucking ones to just get in to a club that you don't have to dive for two hr. to get too. We do have some free land to hunt (WMA) but there are so many hunters that it is not safe its ok to hunt them doing bow season butI will not hunt it doing gun season.And it's so not easy to find people that will just let you hunt for free or pay for it I was told know two times just today. I will not give up!

I feel lucky, we pay $485.00 for 8 guys and 800 acres starting at my back door. hardly ever run in to one of the other hunters.
Dan