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Now an affordable, family-friendly hunting club can give you unlimited access
to private hunting property across Michigan and across the nation for hunting, fishing, camping, hiking
- almost anything you can do outdoors.
American Sportsmen's Club allows members
to reserve private property for their exclusive use. Our proven system enables
us to locate, scout, and lease private
hunting property throughout Michigan, with good habitat
and ample game. Our approach balances the real
needs of sportsmen and landowners, so every one
benefits. Membership growth is carefully controlled,
too, allowing us to keep costs down while offering
unspoiled and uncrowded habitat to all our members - so
every day can be a great day in the field!
| Member Experience: "Saturday October 25 2009. My hunt on this day almost didn't take place due to the same "day light savings" problem I've had
the last 2 years. My alarm clock has a program in it to automatically reset the time on the day light savings weekend. However, ever since they moved the time change
to November, my clock still resets itself on the "original" weekend scheduled. As my alarm sounded on the morning of Saturday October 25, I "thought" I had plenty of time.
After taking a shower and letting the dogs out, I noticed the clock was a hour off in the kitchen. I thought, "that's weird." Than I noticed the clock on the cable box was
off a hour also. Than it hit me. For the second year in a row I've fallen victim to this high tech alarm clock. It was still dark, but a hour later than I thought it was.
I still had a hour drive ahead of me. I thought about not going, but convinced myself I could possible get there in time to salvage a morning hunt. I pulled into my parking
spot as the sun was rising. I still needed to get dressed in my hunting gear and walk a mile to my stand. The race was on! I reached my stand at full light. I climbed up and
got ready. To my total amazement, a doe approached from out in front of me within 5 minutes. As I let her walk by I was relieved to know I didn't disturb the area too bad
after arriving later than I wanted to. She stopped as she approached the thickets behind me. Something had gotten her attention. I could now hear crunching of leaves from
inside the thicket. As the footsteps got closer I could start to see more deer moving thru the thickets. As I strained to see thru the thicket, I could see the last deer was
a buck. At this point I reached for my grunt tube. The first of 3 does exited the thickets about 60 yards to my left.
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I waited for the buck to
follow them onto our property. With a few short grunts from my grunt tube I got his attention. One final grunt had him on his way straight towards me. By the time
I put my grunt tube down and triggered my string, he was entering my shooting lane. At 20 yards I tried to grunt stop him with my mouth. It didn't work. A second
attempt to stop him was unsuccessful. This buck was just
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on finding that "other" buck he heard. As he was about to exit my shooting lane I let the arrow fly,
hoping to lead him enough to compensate his movement. The arrow entered farther back than I would like. The buck, along with the does he had momentarily left,
now bounded back into the thicket. All this action and I had only been in the stand 10 minutes. Upon further inspection of my arrow confirmed a bad hit. I had
not led him enough I thought. As I followed the trail he took to the thickets, I was pleasantly surprised on the amount of blood I was finding. I marked the
property line where he entered the neighbors thickets. I was not about to push this buck. It was 7:50am. I needed to get permission from the neighbors to continue
my blood trail anyway. By 9:00am, with the help of our landowner, I was granted permission to continue my tracking job. My goal was to give the buck a minimum of
5 hours to expire. That's exactly what I did. At 1pm, with the help of another neighbor, I took up the blood trail at the property line. We followed good blood
for about 150 yards until we seen him lying dead ahead of us. Total excitement doesn't even began to describe my feelings when I found him. The 5 hours I waited
to track him were probably the longest 5 hours of my life. He was a nice mature 8 point with good mass. My best buck to date. And to think I almost missed out
on the morning hunt because of my pre-programmed alarm clock. "
Randy Polega, St. Clair County Buck, 2009 |
Additionally, through ASC's affiliation with the American Wildlife Association,
our members can take advantage of nearly unlimited opportunities out of state.
For a fraction of the cost of a guided hunt, members can hunt:
- trophy whitetail deer in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska
- pheasant and quail in South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri
- ducks and geese in Arkansas
- elk and mule deer in Colorado
- almost any North American game species in 15 states
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3 man South Dakota pheasant limit for ASC member and guests. |
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