Cougar, I couldn't agree more. Around here you can expect most leases to run $1200 to $1500 per gun and you'd be lucky if that was for a mininum 100 acres per man. Some of my buddies last year paid $1500 per gun, 4 guns on 70 acres total! It was a 1 buck county and the owner would let them take an additional doe. You can drive all over and see high fences going up. What we are ending up with is "hunting" for guys with money who only go out, are taken to a stand and told which buck they can take for x amount of dollars. Not only are the average guys getting priced out, before long we will have lost our hunting knowledge as none is required for this type of activity. I've never understood how high fences could be legal anyway. The deer are supposed to belong to the people of the state as a natural resource. Seems high fences are no different than daming up a river or stream to divert the water to your place. I've always thought if someone wanted to high fence their property, which should be their right to do, they should be required to have the DNR certify that all of the free roaming deer have been driven from their property prior to high fencing it. Then they can buy their stock and only sell hunts to their client who would know they are shooting cultivated deer. I, too, see the loss of land as the greatest threat we and especially our children face.