I live in Louisiana and hunt in Mississippi and pay the following cost for whitetail hunting:

$700 lease fee (includes electricity for camp, water, seed, trash, etc..) the actual lease is around $500.
$300 out of state license fee
$38 in state license fee

Roughly about $1,000 before fuel, food, ammo, etc... which runs several hundred per year.

The max. I would pay for hunting is $1,000 for the lease, license fees $500. If prices went up any higher I could afford it but would hunt in Louisiana on a lease for around $400-$500 or go fishing a lot more.
I won' t hunt public land with my son (even know I did my whole life) because of the " so called" hunters that make it to unsafe for my liking.