The question remains how this will affect the hunting clubs going forward for deer and turkey.
Very disappointing to hear this.
However, add some perspective, and the sky isn't falling on your hunting there?
AFTER (if) this happens, the deer & turkey hunting clubs should still have in excess of 10,000 contiguous acres to hunt?
The number of hunters (at least for anything other than some "organic" or "free-range" meat) continues to rapidly decline. If you think otherwise, it's an illusion.
The future of hunting is not just about the number of hunters, but also about just how many days each is interested in hunting annually. The number of days allocated for annual hunting per hunter may be dropping much faster than the number of hunters buying a license.
Unlike so much of the times past, we now have many other opportunities for entertaining ourselves, some of which actually does include hunting, but better and/or different hunting than we've grown up with in Tennessee.
Rather than pay a high annual lease or club fee for two or three weekends of hunting, many are choosing to just spend similar money on a week of "vacation" hunting in some other state. Heck, if I didn't have family here, I'd probably be spending what's left of my time in Alaska, hunting nothing but "public" land.
Add to this that most avid "serious" lifetime hunters may currently be over the age of 55, and by all appearances, only a fraction of this dying breed will be replaced by younger hunters.
For those of us who haven't yet bit the dust, we may actually end up with more acres to hunt per day afield than in times past.
Ames can easily just operate it's hunting clubs on 1/2 to 3/4 its current membership numbers, charge the same annual dues, and your hunting could actually be comparable to before they sold any their hunting land. It also wouldn't surprise me if some of the current hunt club members may plan to hunt the newly sold land (and may be dropping their memberships in the Ames clubs).
I know some think I'm crazy, but I see a future where avid hunters are begged to come hunt (deer), instead of being offered over-priced land-lease prices for a place to hunt. This is already happening.
It's all about the law of supply & demand.
You'll end up just fine, at least with your hunting opportunities at Ames.