Frank, Deb, Susan, Allen, Aki and I toured the property with an eye to joining the club. The property is approximately 220 acres and is located north west of Douglasville. We would drive east on I-20 to exit 36 and then north for a few miles.
Shooting and hunting are permitted (e.g., no Sunday shooting restriction), subject to state law. It takes an hour to get to the property. This saves 30 minutes from the trip to Heflin, but is about 20 minutes longer than the jaunt to Lake Alatoona, albeit there is no bird training permitted at the lake.
There are two small ponds for water work and to cool off a hot dog. They are runoff ponds with no obvious spring or stream, so they might get low, muddy, and nasty during the summer. There is also the danger that they could concentrate agricultural runoff if fertilizers are used on the proposed hay and millet crops. The property also has a few buildings (house, barn, implement shed) that are wrecks due to weather and vandals.
The goal is to make the property available for those members who genuinely want to train, and not allow it to be pressed into service for hunting trials and the like. In addition to the club fees, there will be mandated work days (brush clearing, planting millet, etc.). As explained, the desired improvements and proposed upgrades do not seem to be so expansive as to represent a huge sunk cost in the first year's availability. Given the state of the economy and the location of the property, it does not seem likely that the exurban housing boom will cause the property to turn into a subdivision in the near future, although, of course, only time will tell.
The property is really quite pretty, and we all had a great end-of-day hike, and for that alone the trip was worth it.
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