Mustang...I see where your coming from...and yes my analogy was "reaching"...but is it the land owners fault for say, buying land years ago, or land that was handed down that was un-fit for planting, such as a flood plain, so basically he's forced to use it as set aside or CRP? And in doing so he MUST allow hunters access to it? That isn't right, the gov't already force feeds us enough BS, but this would top the cake.

There is no easy solution, we can all agree on that. My own thought is that this all started going down hill once the outfitters moved in. Why let normal people hunt when I can charge X-amount, usually in the thousands? Therefore landowners stopped allowinghunting, hoping that the deer would get big enough to attract outfitters to inquire about leasing it out.