I swore I wasn't coming back here... Here I am. Got bored.
Well lots of good points made here. Including guys looking down the road a few years, which is why I've been against leasing.

Guys, right now in Indiana, it's basically "regular" folks that you are competing with, therefore establishing the "price/market".

But it won't be long, and you'll be bidding against corporations. You know the ones who buy all the tickets and suites at pro sporting events? I mean, seriously, you don't think those people sitting in $500 seats are actually punching a clock or working for the man do you?
They buy these tickets with corporate money and give them away to people they want to do business with or want to continue to do business with. It also gets placed somewhere in the budget so it benefits them at tax time as well.

Well, these guys are smart enough to buy land or even better yet, since it's such a win-win deal... just lease it from the landowner. My biggest complaint has always been that landowners don't give a rats behind who, what uses their land... pay them and it's yours! Why not "sell hunts

How long till these guys selling 3 day hunts for $3500 start leasing the vary land the regular guys are leasing? Then sell the 3 day hunts? I believe there are tons of people out there with BIG MONEY that just want a deer every year to brag to their buddies about, but don't have nearly enough time to devote to food plots and trail cams etc...
Lets be realistic, most of us are always trying to find a way to fit more into less time.

This will come. I don't want to contribute to the madness. It's been said many times and it's true: Leasing is coming... It can't be stopped.
But I also believe it is counterproductive to the cause... to what hunting was when I was raised doing it. It was about fellowship, woodsmanship, mother nature, and by golly if someone was blessed enough that a big buck walked in front of the place they scouted and prepared for, then it was a big day. Not now. If you don't kill a 150" deer your season is forgettable.

Question on ethics:

If you were in a contest to see who could kill the biggest buck and you had a choice between a "several baitpile's" or sevearl trail camera's... which one would you use? which one gives the biggest advantage?
I would say trail cams. I've never owned one, but the concept is hardly fair chase in my opinion.