Illinois Trophy Buck Outfitters is forming a new hunting club for the 2009/2010 Illinois hunting season and beyond that will consist of 20 club members total per year. The club is offering partial and full memberships. The club will have many benefits which will include lodging, over 1000 acres of continuous ground located in Jersey County along the Illinois River. The property is very diverse and has some agriculture, deep hollows, mature timber, bluffs, standing crops and foodplots; a full time guide will be available to help all club members with stand placement and recovery and field dressing of your deer. ILTBO Hunt club will only allow 5 members per week in camp to hunt. This will keep low pressure on all the properties. We are currently in negotiations with the landowner for a long term lease commitment of 10 years and working on the bylaws, club rules and membership fees at this time. The club membership will be priced accordingly and within most hunters’ budget. Please feel free to email us at [email protected] or check out the website for upcoming membership information and pricing. www.iltbo.com Partial Memberships: A partial membership will consist of 3 weeks of archery hunts, an October hunt, a November hunt and late season December or January hunt along with a week of spring turkey hunting and shed horn/moral mushroom hunting. Full Memberships: A full membership will consist of a combination of 3 weeks of archery, an October hunt, a November hunt and a late season hunt in December or January along with one of the 3 firearm seasons and a week of spring turkey hunting and shed horn/moral mushroom hunting. The benefit of a partial yearly membership includes 3 weeks of guaranteed archery hunts along with fringe benefits. The benefits of a full yearly membership includes 3 weeks guaranteed archery hunts one of the 3 firearm/blackpowder seasons along with many fringe benefits. Our membership costs will be around the price of a hunt with the big outfitters in Illinois. One week of hunting with them or a year around membership with ITBO hunt club. Any week of archery that is open and has no hunters or there are still spots available a paid member will be allowed to fill that opening which is included in their membership.
I guess my only question would be how are you going to deal with all 20 members wanting to hunt the 1st two weeks of November?
I like my hunt club better. I pay my dues and can hunt every day of every season. I can go spend time camping and such in the off season. Its open to all 20 members 365 days a year. All 2000 acres.
I agree TX... the ILTBO sounds pretty lame to me. I'd like my land owner/leaser to tell me that I could only hunt the 4th weekend of November! hahaha
No way I'm gonna pay thousands to hunt when I am allowed and hope I get good weather and timing. If I'm getting a lease I am hunting it until my heart is content.
Hmmm...I pay $400/yr to use our club's 1200+ acres to my hearts content, and I think that's a little steep :D Granted that's not an apples to apples comparison. My club is in Northcentral PA, not IL, but still.
Yeah but your club isn't called Trophy Buck Outfitters... the name alone is worth liek $2,000 right? :d
I pay $1000 a year for my club in Illinois and we have just over 3500 acres and I can hunt whenever I want. That includes ground in Pike, Adams, Brown, and Calhoun. I bet he will get his 20 members. Out-of-state guys do pay a ton of money for just one week, so it would make sense they would pay the same money to hunt 4 (3 archery 1 firearm) weeks.
Hey- If you are hunting Brown let me know, I have a farm I hunted this year with a neighbor that is just south of Mt Sterling. Six miles from Pike and Adam counties off of 525 and 107. I'm pretty sure you could shack up with us while you are hunting there if you need a place to crash.
I'm sure you could Hank, just wouldn't bet on a high quality purchase and it might be outsourced so you will need a plane ticket to China where most of their holdings are being imported from. Just can't get American Quality at the Devil these days.
Their hunting club is kinda like our turkey permits and the army reserves!! one weekend a month and two weeks a year. lol only in illinois
That is funny right there. Jason, I may take you on your offer to crash with you. I am not 100% sure I plan on hunting that side of the State this year. I spent all of my time in the central part of the State last year, but I will let you know if I venture to the western side. Thanks for the offer!
You might want to rethink that. Raceway clearly used the term "Shack up" when making you the offer. I am sure he had other thoughts in mind!
I clearly need to call him and get the term "shack up" defined before I accept the offer However, I am almost certain that is not what Jason had in mind and if it is, I am sure one look at my ungly face and 36 year old body will have him quickly changing his mind
Fergy, you are deep and really look for the ***** meaning in anything. Perhaps that is why you are a semi-chubby, middle-aged single white male stalking celebrities at trade shows. Hahahahahaha. I roll with the tang so it's all good. As for you Fergy and Peakrut, we all know what you did last summer in a tent in Garden Prairie
