Isnt there still hundreds of thousands of acres you can hunt for cheaper than a $10 pass in AL,GA,FL, and Miss? It's just not owned by timber companies or old black men. It's in the form of National Forests, and WMA's. And I understand from what I've read from the old timers on here there weren't many deer at all in AL 40 years ago. I would have to assume that the populations on public land currently are atleast as good as they were before restocking. You can also still run hounds on some of these public lands. To me it doesn't sound a whole lot different than what the OP described