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Want to come bowhunt public land in MS as a NR, it'll cost you $530. That gets you 3 bucks and 5 does though. If you add those three bucks up you might get a booner. 
To be honest though you're not going to find many on public land in Ohio either. Sure there are some, but what most NR with a glimmer in their eye for Ohio don't realize is all those big bucks they see on the internet came from an expensive lease, or private land that's locked up with family or close friends and they'll never be allowed to set foot on it. Or worse yet a farmer who leases it for farming and thinks he owns it so he lets people hunt it. I cant twll you the number of times Alex and I talked to a landowner who let us hunt and said only one guy, or nobody, was hunting it. Only to go out there and find guys hunting it and when asked who gave them permission they say the farmers name who has the ag lease. Residents in Ohio struggle hard trying to find private access and the majority of the time it never lasts more than a few years. If a NR wants to come to Ohio and shoot a monster they better add another 5-30k to that $399 cost for a license and tag. The DOW knows this and as NR leasing has increased and price per acre continues to rise the DOW is just chasing the money. What's an extra $150 to a guy dropping 5-15k a year on a lease? Can they go shoot a nice 120-130 on public, The odds are OK on public if they have the time. For most of the people who live in states where they've never even seen a 130-inch deer that's the deer of a lifetime.
Want to hunt turkeys on public land in MS that'll be $400 and you don't get to hunt the first two weeks of the season on public as that's for residents only.
Want one that really burns Nick's ass. The NR fishing license is $90, unless you're from Louisiana then it's $120. A while back LA and Ms got in a pissing match over NR License fees so Ms made a license just for LA residents and threatened to jack it up higher. We share the same coastal waters and most anglers on the coast have both.
To be honest though you're not going to find many on public land in Ohio either. Sure there are some, but what most NR with a glimmer in their eye for Ohio don't realize is all those big bucks they see on the internet came from an expensive lease, or private land that's locked up with family or close friends and they'll never be allowed to set foot on it. Or worse yet a farmer who leases it for farming and thinks he owns it so he lets people hunt it. I cant twll you the number of times Alex and I talked to a landowner who let us hunt and said only one guy, or nobody, was hunting it. Only to go out there and find guys hunting it and when asked who gave them permission they say the farmers name who has the ag lease. Residents in Ohio struggle hard trying to find private access and the majority of the time it never lasts more than a few years. If a NR wants to come to Ohio and shoot a monster they better add another 5-30k to that $399 cost for a license and tag. The DOW knows this and as NR leasing has increased and price per acre continues to rise the DOW is just chasing the money. What's an extra $150 to a guy dropping 5-15k a year on a lease? Can they go shoot a nice 120-130 on public, The odds are OK on public if they have the time. For most of the people who live in states where they've never even seen a 130-inch deer that's the deer of a lifetime.Want to hunt turkeys on public land in MS that'll be $400 and you don't get to hunt the first two weeks of the season on public as that's for residents only.
Want one that really burns Nick's ass. The NR fishing license is $90, unless you're from Louisiana then it's $120.
A while back LA and Ms got in a pissing match over NR License fees so Ms made a license just for LA residents and threatened to jack it up higher. We share the same coastal waters and most anglers on the coast have both.
