Guys this has been a good discussion, bt lets not let it become a series of personal attacks.
NGH, thank you for your service to our country. I hope that you will be able to purchase your own place if that is what you decide to do. I am not finding much in the way of feral hogs on my hill country place, but when whitetail season ends, I would possibly be able to take you and your sons to my place to set up and hunt them. Some of my neighbors are having plenty of hogs on their land, but I am only recently, and occassionally finding hog sign. Keep in touch and we'll see if we can work something out for early 2011.
Range Rider, I am not sure what your main point is actually. I detect a large amount of sarcasm on your posts. Am I right?
However, folks who own their own land have the right to make the rules on it. Personally I take many hunters/shooters to my leased land, and a few to my privately owned land. It is rarely a family member. Mostly folks I know from work, or my church.
I never charge them to come out and shoot hogs, squirrells, or ducks. I do not simply hand out a key to the gate though, I go with them, set them up, and at my own expense run auto feeders, or put them in my own tripods, enclosed blinds etc.
For me personally I enjoy taking folks who either have not had many opportunities to hunt, or just do not have a location to go to. I do not ask them for payments, but that they practice good safety,firearm discipline, keep things clean and handle the downed animal themselves if they do shoot.
I have enjoyed taking a father and his son, a number of times. It does me good since my own chilren are grown and gone, to watch that excitement between a man and his child. I am selective as to who I take, but I have taken many people over the years.
I am so grateful to the Lord for the places I have to hunt, and I try to share that with others. I do not take offense at those who own land and do not operate as I do. That is their decision and I will not criticize a man for the way he uses what he has earned