I reckon it's the norm these days. Used to be you didn't even have to worry about getting permission to hunt on the neighbor's land. Over the last several years certain people and companies have bought up every decent acre that was for sale, cut the timber, and then lease the land. Folks have formed clubs to get enough land together to hunt on. Most of these require some "pull" to get into, not to mention a good bit of cash. I'm lucky to still have neighbors I can hunt on, but I don't know how long it will last. Tried leasing some land for a couple of years, but what I could afford was next to worthless for bowhunting. Public land is downright dangerous, especially during gun season. There's supposedly fewer and fewer hunters, but the land seems to be shrinking faster than that.

Take a good thing, throw money into the mix, and given time it's gonna get screwed up.

Chad