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<blockquote data-quote="jstaylor62" data-source="post: 1501963" data-attributes="member: 6870"><p>Its interesting that you mention Turkey season is a great time to join the club. I hated Turkey season and the restictions that it placed on access to the leases. Most of the leases are closed to access the month prior to Turkey season. The month prior to turkey season is prime hog hunting season becuase hogs have not shifted to nocturnal feeding yet. But the clubs best hog hunting leases are unavailable for the handful of turkeys to be taken. After turkey season is over, the hogs are now feeding nocturnally. The Kimball Ranch Lease was full of hogs. But they could not get enough hunting pressure. As a result, they had to bring in a helicopter and kill over 600 hogs in only week of flying. That was a ton of missed hunting opportunties for club members. Let alone all the destruction the hogs were doing to deer habitat.</p><p></p><p>From my experience, the OKC Sportsman Club does a very poor job of working with the landowners to improve the habitat for the various game. There was only one lease, the 8,000 acre Kimball Ranch Lease, that they worked extensively with the ranch manager and the Oklahoma Wildlife Department to establish a Deer Management Program. After the club members worked to get to it started, the club lost the lease to a group from Texas. So bottom line was, all the work an effort they put into the project was lost. </p><p></p><p>There is a general discentive for club members to improve habitat cutting cedars, planting food plots, etc because you have no guarantee that you will win the drawing to hunt the property that season or let alone the club will keep the lease for the next season. Also, any food plots you do put in are simply devored by the landowers overgrazing their cattle and never make it to the deer to eat. I saw the Buffalo Lease landowner overgraze their property and destroy habitat for what little Quail habitat they had.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jstaylor62, post: 1501963, member: 6870"] Its interesting that you mention Turkey season is a great time to join the club. I hated Turkey season and the restictions that it placed on access to the leases. Most of the leases are closed to access the month prior to Turkey season. The month prior to turkey season is prime hog hunting season becuase hogs have not shifted to nocturnal feeding yet. But the clubs best hog hunting leases are unavailable for the handful of turkeys to be taken. After turkey season is over, the hogs are now feeding nocturnally. The Kimball Ranch Lease was full of hogs. But they could not get enough hunting pressure. As a result, they had to bring in a helicopter and kill over 600 hogs in only week of flying. That was a ton of missed hunting opportunties for club members. Let alone all the destruction the hogs were doing to deer habitat. From my experience, the OKC Sportsman Club does a very poor job of working with the landowners to improve the habitat for the various game. There was only one lease, the 8,000 acre Kimball Ranch Lease, that they worked extensively with the ranch manager and the Oklahoma Wildlife Department to establish a Deer Management Program. After the club members worked to get to it started, the club lost the lease to a group from Texas. So bottom line was, all the work an effort they put into the project was lost. There is a general discentive for club members to improve habitat cutting cedars, planting food plots, etc because you have no guarantee that you will win the drawing to hunt the property that season or let alone the club will keep the lease for the next season. Also, any food plots you do put in are simply devored by the landowers overgrazing their cattle and never make it to the deer to eat. I saw the Buffalo Lease landowner overgraze their property and destroy habitat for what little Quail habitat they had. [/QUOTE]
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