I've never leased any land to hunt on. Growing up I was fortunate to have had family that owned a lot of land that I could hunt on, in addition to the neighbors who let me hunt. As I got older, I acquired land of my own, and currently have 300 acres of pretty fair deer and turkey hunting. My in-laws have several thousand acres that I can hunt on if I wanted to, but I usually don't ask as they have some grandkids that sometimes hunt. Also, I have a couple of friends that let me hunt coyotes on their farms.
Having said that.......the best deer and turkey hunting in my locale is a few miles north of me, and if I could lease a farm there, and didn't have to pay an arm and a leg, I would. But, hunting land there is a hot commodity, with out of staters paying huge prices to lease it. Come deer season here in my part of Kentucky, you see more trucks with Georgia and Florida plates on them, as you do in state plates.
