Wow, so many things to comment on, I can't get all of them.

LA Tomkat, I agree with you completely. With timber companies, it's all greed. Yeah, it's their "right", but why keep raising the price?

I guess I lease for the convenience of having a stand location to call "mine". All of my friends have thier "own" stand locations.

There aren't many farmers around here.

I called the Timber Co, and politely asked them if I could hunt on those 2000 acres in East TX. They politely said, "Sure! That'll be $5 per acre please."

If I owned my own hunting land or had "free" access to hunting land I would not lease either.

When you think about it, unless you own the land that you hunt, everyone is leasing, the only difference is the price. ($$, labor, advertising, etc.)

Too many variables to have the right answer for everyone.....I give up, but I'm gonna continue to hunt.