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Not trying to discredit your theory Chuck because I have no facts to back it up. BUT, I don't think it would be much of an increase. I am a land owner. I still buy a tag and license. I bet the percentage of land owners who ONLY hunt their land is not huge. Conservatively, I would guess less than 50%. Frank (MKII) and Hortontoter might be the only ones on here I can think of. You might be the third. I could be wrong on them as well. Just don't think there are many who ONLY hunt their own land. Maybe it is over 50%, I dunno.
I don't know hicks. Over the years the most widely abused thing I've ever seen when it comes to tagging has been landowner tags. Namely deer killed elsewhere and tagged as landowner or landowners tagging deer for others etc.