When I lived in southeast Ohio the gun season was typically 6 days, and only a year or so before I moved did they start a state wide muzzle loading season. During gun season you were required to use shotgun slugs, and the only exception was a single shot .38 minimum caliber muzzleloader. I usually hunted from tree stands I or my uncles build and all on private property. The earliest muzzle loading deer seasons were restricted to two or three state parks. I ended up at one of those parks (training class for work) on opening day of muzzle loading season. Eating breakfast at the lodge, you could look out over the hillside and it looked like a patch of blaze orange every 20 yards up and down the hillsides. It's a wonder they didn't shoot each other they were so thick.
In Texas, a basic lease starts at $2-3 thousand a gun. With that you usually get a bunkhouse, comfortable stands, feeders, crop beds, etc. Deer shooting, not deer hunting.
When I got back to Texas, I was extremely fortunate to become an extra man on a small buckskinner's deer lease. The only aminity was something resembling a gravel road up to a flat camping area. I got to fill in if someone could not make it that weekend. Best deer season of my life. Primitive camp, hand dug hooter, primitive dress, primitive hunt, terrific friends, great food and magnificent stories. No feeders, no stands, bring your water, sleep in the tipi or under a diamond. The only thing modern was flashlights for tracking after dark, one four wheeler to haul out deer, and ice chests filled with barley pop (if they'd have had it they'd have drunk it). Best hunting experience of my life. We taught each other whatever skills we knew when we weren't hunting. One guy brought 3 sacks of deer legs he got from a processor and we salvaged sinew and deer toes. I got pretty good at that. We had over 100 legs done, the sinew drying, and that was when the game wardens showed up. But that's another story.
