Not old as you swampcracker or got as many deer it sounds. The first deer I ever shot was on paperwood land I was put on a garhole on a dog hunt. Cost to
hunt $0 for me. Land was open access. The next deer I took was a nice buck ran out on me by dogs on private land.
The most fun I ever had was hunting out of state over corn. Seen more action from animals other than deer those days than one would see in lifetime just sitting in woods. Probably what made me love the sport is not knowing what I would see next. Different kinds of hawks chasing other animals at that gathering place. Saw a few bobcats and shot a few. Went one day and got over twenty squirrels. The land I hunted you could hunt all season and maybe see two or three bucks. Never shot over two bucks a year cause just wasn't that many. Never shot a doe because others kept them thinned down and I just didn't eat that much meat anyways. Saw the transition from land being open to everyone closing land off. Never thought I would see anyone pay $1500 or more to deer hunt. To each there own and some people just got money. Maybe those that hunt will have as much fun as I did those first few years I hunted until everyone came in and thought they had to shoot every buck in the woods.