Nope. Never had one and never will. I can’t see spending thousands on a lease and the required equipment for a chance at sitting in a stand and shooting a deer or feral pig. I just don’t like deer or feral pigs enough to spend that kind of money. Everyone is different and their motivations are different. I like the wilderness and the solitude of the high mountains, I like knowing that I could <theoretically> take off on foot and walk, hike and climb for weeks without crossing a fence or ever seeing private property. In this state and with the proper tags I can hunt 3 species of deer, elk, moose, 2 types of sheep, goats, and a myriad of small game and birds including pheasant 3 types of grouse, Hungarian partridge, quail, ducks, geese, etc. I’ve almost completed my North American deer slam with only a Coues deer left to complete it.....that’ll take some travel since there ain’t no Coues deer here. 😁 All of that is no more than a 4 hour drive from my front door and there’s more public land than I could cover in 10 lifetimes.
For some people hunting is about the camaraderie, for others it’s about success, for me it’s about the solitude of being in the mountains and the experiences that few will get the privilege of having.
To each his own and we all have the limitations of time, money, family, health, etc.
To the OP....I hope you can secure another good lease and continue to hunt and enjoy the companionship of great company. 👍
Good post....
We're all hunters here.... hence I find the arguing of where one has available to hunt a little ridiculous. let the anti hunters argue.... not us...
I've never hunted leased land...
I've hunted on military reservations in my youth. Family farms when I got a little older.
Northern Wisconsin and Northern MN, forestland, that was either belonging to Paper companies or the State Forests.
Public land in Montana, Washington and here in Oregon...kinda why I moved to Oregon in 1995, and endure the liberal insanity out of Potlandia....
I get permission to shoot sage rats on private ranches, but that has cost me nothing. Treat folks property with respect, and its never been a problem.
I've learned if you want to avoid, dumbasses on public land, just skip the first few opening days of the season.. most of them tire if they don't see anything the first two days or so...they usually are the types that a shot on the paper at 50 yds and they think they are zeroed... and a box of ammo lasts them 8 to 10 yrs.... and if they do shoot anything, they swear it was taken at 500 yds...not the 50 yds it really was...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
