One of the main advantages of having a lease is the ability to work the property, lay out food plots, put up cameras, and know that when you show up to the property that monster that's on your game cam is gonna be yours and yours alone.
Guess this just seems like a place for hunters who don't know how to work a property to go out and shoot whatever comes out of the woods. Like I mentioned, most of those 62,000 acres are gonna be further than anyone really wants to drive, so most people are only going to take advantage of the properties closest to them. Without the ability to scout, tend to, and set up on the property for days or weeks, just seems like a ridiculously high price to pay for the off-chance you might stumble on something to shoot.
There's 650 million acres of public land in our state, and its all free. Sure, some of it is going to have hunting pressure, but since this seems like you have no more freedoms thru the club than hunting public land minus some pressure, I guess I just don't see the value in it, especially for more money than you'd pay for your own lease.
Honestly the quality of the places they had when I was in was pretty decent. Trust me, the club land is nothing like public land. You have the freedom to scout, you can set up permanent stands (just cant say its your spot and no one elses though), you can set out feeders and cameras.
If you want to plant crops for deer and try to claim them as your own, then no its not a good option. If you like to have multiple places to hunt and dont want to go to the same area all the time it offers you a great variety at a reasonable price for the amount of quality land you can access then its a good choice. As far as the drive, well thats up to the individual. Since most of the places are out west then for you it is going to be a drive. For us folks in the middle here, most places are 2.5hrs or less.
IMO it was better than a lease because of 1) the variety of places to hunt everything from SE OK to NW OK 2) most of the guys in the club were great to be around (but yes there is the 10%) 3) The leases were ussually loaded with game. 4) As a bowhunter I ussually had my pick of where I wanted to hunt. 4) With a lease your stuck with the game thats in the area. With the spread of the club leases you can have access to lands that holds every single legal game species in OK. I've yet to see a lease that can boast that.
I liked it, but no its not for everyone.