I’m blessed to hunt family land, so my cost is suppressed.
If I had to pay what some are paying (for return or the experience), I just wouldn’t do it.
Some folks down the road are paying 4 grand per person for a county that might produce a 150 every decade.
Same here having family land helps. It also allows me to trade hunts. I hunt private land all across the state every year and never pay a dime. Guess I just have good friends? The biggest deer I’ve ever killed (132”) was on 120 acres I hunted for free for 8 years. I lived across the street and noticed folks dumping trash and some shady drug activity going on in an abandoded building. Called the absentee land owner told them what was going on and that I’d stop it if I could hunt. Couple cable gate, no trespassing signs, and some gas and a match to the old building. Good deeds don’t go unoticed!
