Well to be honest I'm leasing up all the good land I can right now. Difference is we take kids up to age 17 hunting and don't charge anything.
I've had guys that wanted to hunt there but I've turned them down. I can't afford someone being there that I don't know about and then take a kid out to hunt.

Not more than 4 years ago I had more land than I could handle for FREE! I had good relationships with landowners (I thought) but then the lease booming era came about and I lost a ton of land almost overnight. Every lease around here is trying to grow big bucks (isn't going to happen much here in my area) but these guys are convinced that if they buy XXXX seed and use XXXX fertilizer and XXXXX implements on their XXXX atv's, they too can grow 300" bucks in 2 or 3 years. And kill a doe? Heaven's no! They attract bucks after all, therefore they are sacred.
I've asked to small game hunt these lands and was turned down because I might spook a buck into the next lease! Geesh.

And lease's around here have went from $4.00/acre average to $17.00+/acre average. What a crock.