I have to agree that I don't like hunting leases. Here in eastern Illinois the problem has been guys from out of state just coming here to kill a big trophy to brag about despite the fact that most of them have awsome hunting right in their backyard. Three different places I have hunted over the years are now being leased out, and I or anyone for that matter isn't allowed in there anymore because of it. The problem I have with this is that these people could just go and get a plat book and call the landowner like everyone else and more often than not they would let them hunt it like everyone else. Evidently that isn't good enough and these people seem to think they need the land all to themselves. Last year we had a guy lease up over 60,000 acres in the county I live in and he then sub-leased it out to people from out of state, thankfully this got him in trouble and it's not as much a problem this year. So many people including myself(gun season) last year didn't hunt because they didn't have anywhere to hunt. Money doesn't grow on trees for the mass population so owning or leasing your own land isn't always possible. For me and most people I know and hunt with they too rely on permission from the landowner, if the trend continues where everybody from out of state is leasing up the land then where are we(the locals) going to have to hunt and to take and teach our kids to hunt. It's hurting our heritage and taking away something that is passed down from genereation to generation. If that isn't reason enough to be against leasing then I don't know what is!