Peach tree ranch

[NCahuntinfool]

When I was a kid we used to belong to the american sportsman club and we used to hunt a ranch called Peach Tree. I heard that the american sportsman club is no longer (or at least out west here). Does anyone know who has that property now? If I remember right it was somewhere between Coalinga and King city and bordered up to an old guys ranch named pfiefer.

Just curious


Thanks

Chris

 

[Caninelaw]

Chris,

I don't know who has it but I remember hunting it when I was in the American Sportsmans Club too. As you probably recall it was like 40,000 acers and was devided up into something like 6 areas (areas A-F). I loved hunting that ranch, got a deer and a pig off of it (my 1st for both). I'd be interested in knowing who has it and if it is somehow accessable for hunting now also.

 

[NCahuntinfool]

Caninelaw

yes I remember the ranch was very big. It holds alot of memories for me. We lived in Stockton and when we belonged to the club we were gone almost every weekend. My dad got a couple of deer out of there and his buddy got a Ram out of there that had crossed over from anoth club that bordered Peach tree (that really ruffled the feathers with the other club). I remember all the fossil rocks I collected as a kid. There were alot of pigs there. I had alot of fun with my dad there and since he passed away years ago I have allways wondered about that area and if it was accessable.

Chris

 

[richw]

Found it punch in peach tree valley monterey county calif. hope this helps

if you guys find out how to hunt there I would like in on it

RichW

 

[theseacow]

i know a thing or two about this place. what would you guys like to know?

 

[richw]

yes please inform us

 

[NCahuntinfool]

I was wondering if it was leased out to a club or if it was open to hunting for anyone. If so do you know what the cost is and how the pig hunting has been? I know it used to be real good but that was years ago.

 

[Live2hunt]

Wilderness Unlimited had about 6000 acres of it for a couple years and lost the lease on it back around 2002 or 2003. I was a member then but did not get a chance to hunt it. Heard it was good for both pig and deer. A buddy of mine got a pig from there. I too also wonder who has it now.


L2H

 

[duckman2002]

Wow what memories.that was a good ranch.my dad hunted it a few times when I was a kid.I love the clark ranch that where i got my first deer.

 

[brknarrow]

bill whitney runs the place now.NO HUNTING. nessen schmidt guides for hogs there. i get to cut wood and shoot squirrels there

 

[257 wby]

My dad and about 20-25 guys hunted the Mee Ranch(Peachtree) from 1961 to around 1971. I was fortunate to take my first two bucks off the ranch. It was unbelievable. At the time the Peachtree Valley had alfalfa, barley, and safflower and the hunting had to be seen to be believed. We would see 50-100 deer a day and pass up numerous bucks. Our members would take about 30 deer a year off the ranch. The pigs were all over especially on the Mustang grade side of the property. Mr. Mee then made the costly mistake of allowing American Sportsman in and they pretty much shot the place up after about 3-4 years. I understand that there were over 100 bucks checked out the first year AS had the ranch and over 80 the second year. I have no reason to doubt the numbers as we knew the ranch foreman pretty well at the time.

All the neighboring rancher were upset with Mr. Mee for allowing the ASC group to lease the property and for good reason. Too many deer taken, not to mention the deer taken and not reported which many carcasses were found after deer season, off the place and it hurt the outlying ranchs also.

Sad but true.

 

[brknarrow]

257wby your a little low on those numbers but the end result is the same. you can drive the whole ranch now and be lucky to see A deer. will probably not recover in my lifetime. tryied to post a pic of delbert ???having probs, look in my gallery or e-mail me got a good pic o the old ramrod.

 

[257 wby]

Brknarrow - I forgot the ranch hands first name, but wasnt his last name something like Nayswonger,pardon my spelling. I remember when you shook his hand you lost yours. He used to go quail hunting on the Mee ranch with my dad once in a while. He was really nice to us kids when we used to see him.

You might be right about the area never really recovering from being pounded for so many years, but I do remember that Tom Mee told me back in 1982 that he really did not want ASC in there any longer but he needed the money badly. I believe he said that ASC was paying him about $ 100,000 a year to lease the ranch and that was a lot of money back then, especially when a ranch close to the Mee Ranch of about 5000 was sold in 1992 for $ 800,000.00.

I was close to leasing the small section of the Mee Ranch off to the right going up Mustang grade that bordered the small Phyffer area, you know which I'm talking about, when the ASC lease was going to expire, but thats when Mee went belly up and lost the ranch. We didn't want to lease the whole ranch like Tom wanted us to because I wanted to just hunt with 4 or 5 other buddies and that little 2500 acre section had some real toads in there.

We tried to contact Dr. Singleton many times after he got the ranch but no dice.

257 wby.

 

[bigtusker]

I believe peachtree is owned by a gentleman out of Northern San Benito County.

 

[brknarrow]

delbert nyswonger. he still lives on the ranch. pretty well retired now. suffering from altzimers. one hellofa man though.