I actually like these changes, and they make perfect sense to me. I'm not sure how this is "anti gun". It is anti establishment though, which I am generally for.
This opens up new public land to hunters, and offers opportunities to leased land to people who never had it before. I understand that clubs that have been entrenched in a spot for years would feel stiffed by this, but remember...it isn't your land.
The only problem I see is that for the leased land, at the end of the 5-year lease, people will start killing marginal bucks because they are "their bucks", leaving the next group to start over. But, you can raise some good deer in 5 years, and the reality will most likely be that there will be few people looking to lease, and many of the tracts will end up in the same hands year after year.
This opens up new public land to hunters, and offers opportunities to leased land to people who never had it before. I understand that clubs that have been entrenched in a spot for years would feel stiffed by this, but remember...it isn't your land.
The only problem I see is that for the leased land, at the end of the 5-year lease, people will start killing marginal bucks because they are "their bucks", leaving the next group to start over. But, you can raise some good deer in 5 years, and the reality will most likely be that there will be few people looking to lease, and many of the tracts will end up in the same hands year after year.