Just like NY and everywhere else. It's trophy hunting, the fascination with antlers and fierce competition for same that has been most responsible for posted signs going up and refusal to let folks hunt that has ruined the sport. Back when I started hunting there was unposted private land all over the place and nobody cared if you hunted it. That was before the big antlers or bust mentality set in. Farmers tended to look at deer as corn and alfalfa munching pests and hunters just wanted a little recreation and to fill their tags with a legal deer. Nobody planted food plots and any legal buck was a good buck worthy of taking. Now they're {antlered bucks} far too valuable as status symbols to braggarts so they lock up the land, eliminate the competition, feed the deer and raise their own personal trophies to the detriment of the sport overall. You want to see the enemy and the biggest reason hunter numbers continue to decline ? If you're a glassy eyed, died in the wool, deer feeding, QDM fanatical trophy hunter, just look in the mirror.
