Yep, fornra, you caught me "red handed" on that one. My son actually made a whopping $100 on a hog hunt on our land when he was unemployed for a while. The group of 4 (3 generations) hunted for several days (4 or 5 I think) and shot 3 hogs. They actually found 2 of them. They were great people. My son was going to turn down the money, but they insisted so he took it. I'm guessing we baited those hogs with corn and mungbeans and peanuts for probably a month or two and let them use our jeep and 6 wheeler and of course our skinning tree, scales, etc. For them, I'd do it all over again because they were great people, very polite, took good care of my land and equipment, hunted safely and followed all the rules. AND I think they had a great time and got to do something they had wanted to do for a long time but couldn't afford any other way. I have plenty of friends that can hunt them any time they want for nothing, of course. For others, well, let's just say that I'd rather have the hogs at this point. If the hogs hadn't gone nocturnal on them, they would have got more. Too bad, because I wouldn't have cared if they killed them all. All of us aren't out to make a killing just as all hunters aren't bad (exactly to the contrary). It's not really about whether the animal is a nuisance or not. It's sometimes about where it's located and who is going to be there and how they might act especially if you don't know them. I don't think any hunt should be overpriced but I do believe that the landowner should have the right to charge (just as the hunters have the right not to come) if he has something others want even if he has them to excess. I've always struggled with high priced out of state licenses when one is hunting on National Park land or Bureau of Land Management land that we might all actually own. So since my vehicle wears an out of state license plate, I get to pay 5 times as much for a license to hunt on property that I own too. Just never made much sense to me. I always felt that one should check the license plate before the hamburgers were served. If they are from out of state, they should have to pay more. There is a little sarcasm in there so don't take me literally on all of that, please. I guess we all have our pet peeves. I was just throwing out a little different perspective just in case someone hadn't thought of that angle. Didn't mean to upset anyone. I sure hope my son doesn't read this. I'd say when all the subtracting was done, my son didn't make so much on that hunt that it would make him feel too guilty. Do you think we could convince those people who live where the deer are eating up all their crops and colliding with all their vehicles, etc to let us all come up there and hunt for free? I suspect they'd still want something to harvest all those nuisance animals? And, I'll defend their right to do that. I may not be able to afford it or I may be so against it that I simply wouldn't do it. But there are some out there that make their money a different way than I do and make enough of it that they don't mind spending some of it on things they couldn't do any other way. I say to both of them.....go for it. Isn't this a great country? There are many who spend more in a day on entertainment than I make in a month or more. Nothing wrong with that. I guess it's all about choices for us all. I do appreciate your stand and hope you can see a little of what I was trying to get across. I suspect, we might be a lot more alike than we realize.