I'm not even hunting this year because I can't swing it with tags, gas and processing the deer. A lease would simply be out of the question, which is what it is coming to around here as well. I just started hunting in 2000, I don't like the way it's going to be honest. I may be hanging it up before long, or take up small game or bird hunting.

Then to top it off the local gun club wants $200 a year to join that. It is a nice club though.

Maybe I should take up fishing, there are like a zillion lakes in Michigan. Too bad I don't like fish.

I don't agree with the point about leasing land to be farmed being the same as hunting it. When someone farms your land they make a profit off from it. Not really the case when someone hunts it.

I guess it will just become like it used to be, a sport for rich people. But hey, that's what America is about, making a buck.

Paul