Land for Sale in Ochlocknee, Georgia

Stagecoach is 210± acres of classic Red Hills upland pine in Thomas County, Georgia, on the historic Stage Road in the heart of the Red Hills Plantation Belt. It has produced wall-hanging bucks for 25 years straight. It has strong wild turkey numbers, a wood duck hole, and 195+ acres of huntable uplands ready for quail. And it sits just 14 minutes from the shopping and restaurants of downtown Thomasville. "Most people assume you need thousands of acres and eight figures to own a piece of the Red Hills. You don't. Stagecoach is the Red Hills: the soils, the wiregrass, the fire, the wildlife, the town. It's just sized so a family can actually use it" - Jon Kohler "So what's so fascinating to me about this property is the consistency of which it produces large deer." - Jon Kohler 210+/- Total Acres | ~195+ acres Huntable Uplands | 25 Yrs of Trophy Bucks | 14 Min to Downtown | $2.1M Offered as a Whole Every Buck Goes on the Wall Most tracts this size get hunted hard, or the big buck consistency just isn't there. This one checks every box. For a quarter century, the same group of hunters has held the lease and followed a single standard. They manage the does, pass on young bucks, and take only what's worthy of a wall. It's what most hunters wish they had. ""The people that have been hunting it have killed big deer every year. They manage the does and try to cull about 10 to 15 does per season. And then the bucks, their rule is if you're going to take a buck, it needs to go on a wall." - Max Beverly, Owner "There's some pretty deer that have come off of here. I mean, nice big 12, 14 pointers." - Max Beverly, Owner Why the Deer Come Here Trophy bucks don't happen by accident. They need age, and age requires low pressure. Stagecoach is surrounded by row crop ground on one side and a large, lightly hunted tract across US 19 on the other. There is ample feed. The Ochlocknee River bottom and its game-rich corridor are just beyond. Deer are drawn in from thousands of acres of farmland by the habitat and cover here. "You end up pulling in deer from a large number, a large volume of acreage that's really not being hunted that well. It's not like every neighbor is hunting deer, so you get to pull in large big bucks." - Max Beverly, Owner This Is Why You Come to the Red Hills The land is upland longleaf and pine, with both native wiregrass and old field ground on Tifton soils. It has been consistently burned for decades. The timber was never planted in rows and grown for pulpwood. It is a living forest floor. "It is natural South Georgia wiregrass ground cover. This property is burned almost every year. It's not like it's just strictly been planted pines to be grown as thick as you can get them. There's an ecosystem on the forest floor." - Max Beverly, Owner "It's stereotypical Red Hills. This is why you come to the Red Hills." - Jon Kohler The Beverly family planted longleaf here about 30 years ago, knowing they would not see all of it mature. That is how this family has always approached land. "I remember planting a field in 1989, knowing that I wasn't going to be alive when those trees were mature. So anyway, you kind of play the long game." - Max Beverly, Owner A Great Turkey Neighborhood The Ochlocknee riparian corridor holds turkeys, and they spill onto Stagecoach. The property has strong wild turkey numbers. "During the 2010 Georgia-Florida Turkey Invitational, I killed a 27-pound gobbler about a mile from here. It won the Calcutta. My partner missed one just as big. This has always been a great turkey area" - Jon Kohler "It looked like the ground was moving, and it was probably 75 turkeys moving together." - Max Beverly, Owner One Heck of a Bird Place, With Very Little Effort Max Beverly is part of some of the finest wild quail ground in the country, so when he evaluates a tract for birds, his opinion carries weight. Stagecoach is high and dry, with almost nowhere that floods.