I find the irony quite rich in a guy saying he won't "pay" to hunt whitetails, especially considering the rationale he gives in the OP, yet belongs to two hunting clubs...

I've not paid to hunt whitetails, but probably will. I can kill them on my place every year, but they occur in a lot of very different places. Hunting the same species in a much different type of place is very cool to me. The actual killing of them's not the whole story for me.