I would hunt in Iowa with friends and family if the price was right, but $296.50 is totally unreasonable to me, when I would also have to set up and use a slug gun to hunt a couple miles from home.
For that much money as a resident in Missouri, I can hunt way more. For just $89. I can hunt 1 buck or 1 doe in rifle season,antlerless only season or muzzleloader season, 1buck, 1doe, and two turkeys with a bow, 2 spring turkeys,2 fall turkeys and have a hunting/fishing combo for everything else. That would leave me enough money for 20 extra doe tags and change left over for 22 days worth of trout fishing tags, and $1.50 left for a coke.
My friends and family in Iowa have the same problem. They would love to hunt with a rifle in Missouri, but just to kill one deer they would pay $225. Which is $198. more than they would spend to hunt one deer in Iowa.
Being used to hunting with a rifle here, there is no way I would pay $279.50 more to shoot the same deer, with a seriously downgraded weapon. And being used to using a shotgun, my friends would not pay the $198. more for a rifle hunt. There are literally places where Iowa friends will drive deer South for Missouri hunters to shoot on the South side of the fence and where Missouri hunters will drive them North for Iowa friends to shoot on the Iowa side. I love hunting right on the line when Iowa bird hunters are accidently driving deer my way!