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<blockquote data-quote="1moredeer" data-source="post: 3094065" data-attributes="member: 112951"><p>It started getting really bad about 15 years ago. It was cheaper for Texans to lease land and buy out of state tags than it was to get on a waiting list for a lease in Texas. I'm a born and raised Okie, lived there for 60 years and the last 5 in Texas. I grew up hunting northwest Oklahoma and permission was usually a door knock and handshake away. I thought paying to hunt was something reserved for an exotic adventure to Alaska or Africa. Leasing became a reality in the early 2000's if you wanted to hunt. I had my last lease in western Oklahoma in 2014. We paid $4/acre for 640 acres of primo land on the Cimarron River, which I thought was outrageous. The place was thick with deer and it all came down to how patient you were willing to be to kill a really nice deer. A family inheritance squabble in 2015 put an end to the lease for a couple of years and when it opened back up, it went to $10/acre, with multiple groups wanting to lease it. That renewed my resolve to continue to save my money for a piece of land of my own to hunt on. A couple of TV hunting shows highlighted the "big deer" opportunities and lease prices skyrocketed putting them out of reach for working people. Lots of guys like myself spoke up at ODWC meetings trying to get them to level the playing field and help resident hunters compete in the marketplace. Looks like they are still working toward that goal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1moredeer, post: 3094065, member: 112951"] It started getting really bad about 15 years ago. It was cheaper for Texans to lease land and buy out of state tags than it was to get on a waiting list for a lease in Texas. I’m a born and raised Okie, lived there for 60 years and the last 5 in Texas. I grew up hunting northwest Oklahoma and permission was usually a door knock and handshake away. I thought paying to hunt was something reserved for an exotic adventure to Alaska or Africa. Leasing became a reality in the early 2000’s if you wanted to hunt. I had my last lease in western Oklahoma in 2014. We paid $4/acre for 640 acres of primo land on the Cimarron River, which I thought was outrageous. The place was thick with deer and it all came down to how patient you were willing to be to kill a really nice deer. A family inheritance squabble in 2015 put an end to the lease for a couple of years and when it opened back up, it went to $10/acre, with multiple groups wanting to lease it. That renewed my resolve to continue to save my money for a piece of land of my own to hunt on. A couple of TV hunting shows highlighted the “big deer” opportunities and lease prices skyrocketed putting them out of reach for working people. Lots of guys like myself spoke up at ODWC meetings trying to get them to level the playing field and help resident hunters compete in the marketplace. Looks like they are still working toward that goal. [/QUOTE]
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