I guess I'm the exception to the rule. My Dad and I hunted on a lease on the same ranch for twenty years. My friends and I have been hunting on an oklahoma ranch for a dozen years or so. In those years we have become really close friends with the ranchers. No price increases in the years we had the lease. In fact, when I retired, they asked if they needed to reduce the cost. They help us in every way they can. We do respect the ranch, if we see a cow stuck we get her out..if we see one down we get her up or do what is necessary. Plus, we have some really nice bucks...my buck last year was five year old ten point 20" wide. My sons was also a nice ten point, my buddies was a pretty nice 12 point...all mature deer. I was out there day before yesterday looking at bucks on another part of the ranch...one was a really nice ten point, I'd estimate gross score between 160 and 170.
