bowfanatic, that was funny as chit!!!!!

bubba, I feel for ya. Problem with my neck of the woods isn't leasing but selling. They're building so many dang houses around here I get dizzy thinking about it. I have had at least 4 areas that I had permission to hunt on be sold for developments and I have another one that the owner is in the process of selling. I might get another season out of it. I have also had two owners tell me that I wasn't allowed to hunt on their property anymore because they were sued by other hunters who were injured while on their property. How about that for a load of cr@p?! What kind of hunter would sue a land owner nice enough to let them hunt for free because they fell out of a tree? (Hey, I'm a poet and didn't know it)

Ayway, over the past 4 years I have started hunting public land which I am lucky enough to have a lot of within an hour of my home. I have gotten very familiar with most of it and have seen some really nice bucks. It gets a little crowded during firearms and m/l season on the weekends but I hunt during the week and am usually the only one out there. If you have any public land, give it a try.

In my only defense for kevin1, I have worked for the land owners before and that used to work out but it does seem like the all-powerful greenback is more enticing than my sweat these days.