Dewey wrote:I have never leased and don't plan to in the future.
The way I look at it there are over 6 million acres of public land in Wisconsin so I feel no need to pay any money to hunt. If you put in the hard work and scout the public land enough you will be surprised by the quality of deer on public land. I have found that every area holds at least one good buck if you put the time in to find them and if you research enough you can find unpressured areas that others do not hunt.
Same here Dewey, I have alwasy been a public land hunter and I am really starting to enjoy the challenge of finding and hunting the bucks vs wishing I had better land to hunt. I wasted a lot of years scouting and hunting the wrong stuff and wishing I had access to better land. There buck were there all along, just staging in the swamp a few hundred yards away or going the the other way when I had a "perfect wind" for my setup.