Silver Creek Hunting Club Rules 2012 – 2013

General Rules

1. All members must have a valid Silver Creek Hunting Club membership card on his or her person and accessible to show to a fellow member while on the club’s property.
2. Club members are required to display a current vehicle pass on vehicles and an ATV stickers must be visible on ATV’s.  Vehicles and ATV’s without a visible decal are subject to being towed at the owner’s expense.
3. Guests are not allowed during deer, duck or turkey seasons, unless the guest is a high school or college student under the age of 22.
4. ALL GUEST must be accompanied by a club member while on the club’s property.
5. Your membership fee also includes a spouse membership.
6. Children under age 16 may hunt with a club member. A club member must be present with the child while on the club’s property. A club member can only hunt with one child (at a time) under the age of 16 during deer, duck, or turkey season.  If a child kills a deer, both the club member and child must sign-out the deer.  Children age 16 and older must abide by the club’s harvest rules.

Deer Harvest Rules

1. A maximum of (2) doe may be harvested per tract of land designated as a “Quality Managed Tract.”
2. Hunting (harvesting) “doe” on a club food plot or another member’s food plot is not allowed.
3. Both the hunters and “doe” must be 100 yards away from food plot. Exception, children under the age of 16 can harvest a “doe” (or Buck) on a club food plots.
4. All Silver Creek Hunting Club rules apply while hunting on the adjoining National Forest property.
5. Bucks harvested on a “Quality Managed Tract” must be shoulder, or European mounted.  The name, address and phone number of the licensed taxidermist must be provided.  All deer must be signed out at the gate on the day of the kill.
6. A PICTURE AND THE JAW BONE OF ALL BUCKS HARVESTED ON A “QUALITY MANAGED TRACT” MUST BE GIVEN TO CLUB OFFICER WITHIN 14 DAYS OF KILL.
7. Hunter’s harvesting a buck that doesn’t meet the minimum requirements for the “Quality Managed Tract” will be fined $200.00 and will not be allowed to hunt until the fine is paid. After the fine is paid, the second buck may only be harvested on another tract.

Quality Managed Tracts

1. The Watkins’s Gin, Haywood Valley and Highway 101 tracts have been designated as “Quality Managed Tracts.”
2. Bucks harvested on “Quality Managed Tracts” must have a minimum 15” inside spread.
3. All Georgia game laws also apply!

State Game Rules Tracts

1. The Bailey Rd property is designated as “State Game Rule Tracts.”
2. “State Game Rule Tracts” do not have a minimum spread required for first buck.
3. All Georgia game laws apply!

Small Game Hunting Rules

1. Members are allowed to bring a guest during small game hunting seasons (when it does not coincide with deer, duck, or turkey seasons.)  Member and Guest harvest cannot exceed the state limits for one person.  Non-member vehicle must be left at gate.
2. Small game hunters are not allowed to release dogs any closer than 300 yards from other hunters. Coon hunters may not hunt until 1 hour after sunset and must leave by 3:00 AM. Only 3 coons are allowed per tract of land, per season, per member.  Coon hunters may take a guest, but the guest vehicle must be left at gate.
3. Planted Dove fields and Duck swamps will be fully open to Dove or Duck hunting during Deer Season

Sign-In Rules

1. All members must mark the sign-in board map (of the appropriate property) while visiting or hunting a property.
2. You must sign-in when you arrive and sign-out when you depart.
3. Do not erase another member’s markings on sign-in board / map.
4. The sign-in board shall not be marked over 24 hours in advance.
5. No one is allowed to reserve another hunter’s permanent stand unless they have that member’s permission. Plus, you must have a permanent stand on the same tract.
6. You may hunt another member’s permanent stand only if the owner has not reserved it and has not arrived 45 minutes before sunrise.
7. Do not hunt another member’s stand unless you have a permanent stand on the same tract.

Land Management

1. No cutting of trees.
2. All members must do one of the following:
1. Plant a food plot
2. Put out a feeder & keep it full (member’s name must be visible on all feeders)
3. Put out minerals (no mineral blocks only liquid or granulated allowed)
3. You must provide the appropriate club officer will details regarding your work on the tract.
4. All feeders, feeds, and visible traces of minerals must be removed 14 days prior to deer and turkey season.
5. Food plots and feeders must be approved in advance by a club officer.
6. Feeders must be placed and actively managed prior to June 1st with a mix of corn and high protein feed.

Rules of Conduct

1. No shooting over an adjoining landowner’s property.
2. Members must let a club officer know where they’ve placed a permanent stand.
3. No stands will be nailed to tree.
4. All Permanent stands must be marked with the member’s name & phone number (or last 4 digits of the member’s social security number.)
5. Permanent stands on Power lines & Gas lines are not to extend no more than 3 feet onto right of way and must be on the same side as all other permanent stands
6. If you have a permanent stand, you must maintain your stand year round and visit each stand on a monthly basis.
7. Approved “Sight-in area for rifles will be designated by officers of that tract of land
8. Sight-in rifles prior to opening day of Deer (Archery) season – sight-in is not allowed after opening day.
9. If you see someone trespassing, try to get their name and picture.  Call 911 and ask for a Game Warden then report the event. Provide details to a club officer including the date and time.
10. Members are asked to carry some kind of camera.
11. NO JOY RIDING ON THE CLUB’S PROPERTY DURING HUNTING SEASON
12. No riding thru Food Plots.
13. Anyone caught playing in mud, tearing up property or roads; anyone caught breaking State Game Laws or caught breaking club or lease rules will be kicked out of the club.

No one under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance is allowed on the property any time!!   No alcohol or controlled substances allowed on the property at any time!!   Anyone caught is automatically dismissed from the club!!
 
THE SILVER CREEK HUNTING CLUB HAS A NO REFUND POLICY


Club President                                        Vice President

Michael A Warren       706 232 8729                  David T. Glover      770 480 5057
481Brumbelow Road                                                 
Aragon, GA 30104-1416                                            


    Highway 101 & Baily Rd                             Watkins Gin

Terry Swanson           706 252 2518                   Hugh Dorsey            706 270 4545
Donald Elders             706 346 2647                   Kenneth Dorsey       706 847 9892
Danny Little                 706 936 7877                   Keith Johnson          706 346 4833

   Officers for Haywood Valley

Bob Halliday              404 538 8200
Jim Hayes                   828 514 3718