Depends on the locale. Pay to play is the nature of the beast in states with minimal public acreage.
Less than 2% of the state is public hunting ground here, and your odds of drawing a tag on most of those public tracts are about the same as getting hit by lightning while a shark is eating you.
You're either gonna own a block of land big enough to hunt, which sells for ~$10k/per acre these days, be lucky enough to have a family member with land that'll let you hunt it, or pay for a lease. Your odds of deer hunting here are slim to none otherwise.
