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Originally Posted by ghak99
This has slowly been happening to me the last few years.
It started with the clown season they call rifle just burning me out. But now I'm surrounded by ~25 idiots form Georgia and Alabama on top of the regular neighbor issues. They lease every acre from a large farmer who leases most of the ground to farm. I have gone from spending a lot of money and time making food plots to "**** it, what's the point". Have at least a half dozen trail cameras I haven't even put out.
The only real point in going to the tree is for the silence and to watch them run for their lives just trying to get back to my properties before they die. Even me being there is a liability as I could push the one or two deer I'd actually take next year back into a long trailer ride to Georgia were they'll tell every friend they have about how good Missouri is which leads to more driving up lease and land prices for everyone else here. Meanwhile, I know the area is in a 4-5 year decline in both quality and volume.
MDC needs to mirror Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas tag prices or just admit they don't really give a damn about young Missouri hunters actually having a place to hunt.
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It costs non-residents $442 for a antlered/antlerless combo plus $98 non-resident hunting license in Kansas.
Most residents I speak to think it's not enough.
Also, we have the same problem with leased ground and local hunting access. Has been since the 90s, and it's only trending moreso in that direction.