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Post by anumber1 on Dec 17, 2023 10:25:24 GMT -5
our club has 43 members on 5600 acres mostly dog hunters so archery/ml/spring turkey is pretty quiet.
land is a mix of timber and cypress heads, not much open land so it hunts bigger.
it's a timber lease and price goes up every year. Flat Branch is one (if not the) of the oldest continous hunting leases in Fl.
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Post by pinman on Dec 17, 2023 11:35:34 GMT -5
If you get on a lease where there is a high Bear population I dont think you will see as many Deer. Certainly, harder to keep feeders going if not impossible. Im not a fan of leases that have designated spots. The only lease Ive ever been on was 6 guys on 1200 acres and we just let each other know what stand we were going to. It had lots of Bears (Madison area) and no feeders.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Dec 17, 2023 11:59:35 GMT -5
The last Florida lease that I was in had 7 members on 3500 acres in Alachua county, bow hunt only. The dues were like 600 bucks. I had an epiphany and decided that I didn't care for baiting and quite, probably one of the dumber decisions that I have made. It also tells you how old I am, too old.
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Post by altuck on Dec 17, 2023 16:39:46 GMT -5
I was in a lease near Fanlew in Southern Jefferson County for several years. There is like 17000 acres near the intersection of US 98 and SR 59, it is managed by Tuten logging company in Perry. It has mostly been clear cut and is in stages of replanting. Lots of water, lots of bears but we took some decent deer out of there. A number of clubs lease land there so if you contact Tuten they maybe could give the name of some of the clubs or may a have a lease available, you can start your own club. Good luck
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Post by bswiv on Dec 17, 2023 18:03:20 GMT -5
If you get on a lease where there is a high Bear population I dont think you will see as many Deer. Certainly, harder to keep feeders going if not impossible. Im not a fan of leases that have designated spots. The only lease Ive ever been on was 6 guys on 1200 acres and we just let each other know what stand we were going to. It had lots of Bears (Madison area) and no feeders. The bears are only going to become more and more of a issue. Shifting to soybeans if a feeder is something you feel you need is a option. Where it is a option.....habitat improvement measure are a longer-term strategy, one with multiple benefits.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Dec 17, 2023 18:13:49 GMT -5
Unfortunately most of the leases in NC Fl. are owned by large timber companies and their idea of land management is the use of herbicides.
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Post by bswiv on Dec 17, 2023 18:30:42 GMT -5
Unfortunately most of the leases in NC Fl. are owned by large timber companies and their idea of land management is the use of herbicides. I would note that they use herbicides because of the LIABILITY of using fire. Fire costs less.....and does a better job for the environment......but......due to unenlightened regulations/statutes they can not throw smoke across a road or.....well.....I could go on. It's not the fault of the timber companies but rather of the general public who want to NEVER smell smoke, and who has a fit is they have to slow down on the way to Mouse World and...............as I noted.....I could go on. The most interesting thing is that this is one of those places where hunters and environmentalists should be charging in the same direction......
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Post by ogbohica on Dec 17, 2023 19:14:11 GMT -5
We lit many fires back in the day, burned one marsh every year. Its all BS now and just an excuse. like SSS lite it, leave it, and dont talk about it.
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Post by bswiv on Dec 17, 2023 19:35:54 GMT -5
We lit many fires back in the day, burned one marsh every year. Its all BS now and just an excuse. like SSS lite it, leave it, and dont talk about it. Not sure what "SSS" means but if we do not pay attention it'll get to the point where not even our state owned land can be properly managed due to the poor planning on the part of counties and the state in regards to growth management. How in the world do you manage a pine sand hill that needs fire every 3-5 years when a county allows a hospital to be built on one side, a couple of schools on another and a fancy neighborhood on around a good section of it? Might as well give the land that we all spent tax dollars to save to some developer and Plant Yankees on it because sooner or later it will happen that there is not a wind direction it can be burned on. And then.....as time passes......as the fuel builds up.....it'll eventually burn, because nature is that way. The results of that will be ugly, catastrophic. And the folks in the fancy neighborhood who wanted to never smell smoke, and the school and the hospital......they'll all get smoke, and maybe some of them will burn. And it'll be blamed on the Forest Service for not managing the forest properly. But it'll not be the Forest Service's fault........ Rant over.............
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Post by meateater on Dec 18, 2023 13:04:47 GMT -5
Being that I'm going to automatically miss half of any season due to my job, I dearly miss hunting on my own time. I'd be a great addition to any lease for that reason alone. lets split the cost, you work all the time so i will hunt monday thru friday to make up the difference. im sure we will not be asked to return the second year but boy will our freezers be full.
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Post by One Man Gang on Dec 18, 2023 16:32:01 GMT -5
Being that I'm going to automatically miss half of any season due to my job, I dearly miss hunting on my own time. I'd be a great addition to any lease for that reason alone. lets split the cost, you work all the time so i will hunt monday thru friday to make up the difference. im sure we will not be asked to return the second year but boy will our freezers be full. I'd be down but I have a few week days I might want to hunt to. Maybe trade you every other weekend for a few weekdays every other week?
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Post by 4ward on Dec 18, 2023 18:25:13 GMT -5
You guys consider me too. I’m pretty flexible with time, I clean up after myself and you’d never even know I was there 😃(just make sure you set some quality stands, my back has been acting up)
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Post by JS84 on Dec 18, 2023 18:34:54 GMT -5
I reached out to the managing party, Wayne Morrow, of Dip N' Vat Hunt Club in Dixie back in May. They have 14,000 Acres and 90 members @ $1300 a year. May be an option for some of yall. floridahunt.club/information
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Post by johnnybandit on Dec 18, 2023 22:00:36 GMT -5
If you get on a lease where there is a high Bear population I dont think you will see as many Deer. Certainly, harder to keep feeders going if not impossible. Im not a fan of leases that have designated spots. The only lease Ive ever been on was 6 guys on 1200 acres and we just let each other know what stand we were going to. It had lots of Bears (Madison area) and no feeders. The bears are only going to become more and more of a issue. Shifting to soybeans if a feeder is something you feel you need is a option. Where it is a option.....habitat improvement measure are a longer-term strategy, one with multiple benefits. There is a common belief that bears do not like or will not eat soybeans..... If plenty of corn is available.. They will eat the corn alone.... But if soybeans are on the menu.... Bears will gobble them up.... Florida bears are usually not used to them.... So they may pass them up at first.... But they will get used to them....
When I was in NE Coastal NC in October... They were in the process of harvesting corn and soybeans..... All the Big and HUGE bears were in and around the corn.... But the smaller bears, and sows with cubs were in the soybean fields..
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Post by tonyroma on Dec 19, 2023 11:10:02 GMT -5
We use soybeans north of the ONF, it greatly reduces bear activity, when we were dropping corn we had trail cam pics of 4 bears in shot.
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