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Community => Advocacy, Agencies, Access => Topic started by: Carl on February 28, 2019, 08:31:31 PM

Title: Family Hunting Club
Post by: Carl on February 28, 2019, 08:31:31 PM: Has anyone heard of or been a member of this club out of Othello?

http://www.familyhuntingclub.com/
Title: Re: Family Hunting Club
Post by: Mfowl on February 28, 2019, 09:05:16 PM: Hey Carl,

I've never hunted their lands but have seen their signs around on properties. Looks like they have some pretty nice land available. However I have "heard" stories of shady actions by the operators of the club. Things like stealing scouting reports from members for their own gain and chasing birds off lands that aren't theirs. I have no evidence to back this up, just things I heard around. It was also years ago when I heard this.
Title: Re: Family Hunting Club
Post by: Birdguy on February 28, 2019, 09:19:38 PM: I have talked to them several years at the Sportsman show, the guys there seem pretty nice. The Mrs. and I sat with the owner at the Pheasants Forever Banquet a few years back, he was very nice, and even nicer when he found out we raised pheasants and chukar :chuckle:. Outside of that I have heard it is a "good ol boys club" in many ways. If you get in you are gold but until then and otherwise you are a $$ supply to lease the best land they can bit only the "in" crowd gets the best ground. The regular guys get plenty of land but it is not the prime land.

Again, I have never been a member just what I have heard. Seems to me 4 or 5 years ago this came up on here.....
Title: Re: Family Hunting Club
Post by: follow maggie on April 16, 2019, 09:06:55 PM: I was a member back in 2008. They lease a lot of land, but I felt like I was just a source of cash for the long time members to get great hunting ground while I was hunting potato fields and dirt patches. I killed way more birds on public land than I even saw on the club land. The cost of membership is enough to cover 2 ten day trips to the Dakotas.