It depends on where you are. As a teenager in NC (mid 70's) I hunted local farms where we had permission to hunt and on family property/National Forest land in SC. When I lived in north Florida in the mid 80's we hunted in the Apalachicola Natl. Forest and I belonged to two different leases one in south-west Georgia and another in Alabama. Some of the folks I worked offshore with during the eighties invited me to hunt with them when we were off the rig so I had a exposure to Texas and MS leases. In the late 90's I lived in Michigan's beautiful UP and almost of the hunting was done on public land or paper company property that allowed access. I would go back to the UP for deer season even after moving away. This year it will be back to SC to hunt on family property and an adjacent lease. You have to find what works for you.
