You are right about the posted land Monroe is a strange county Jefferson National Forest is the only open land to hunt there and is so over hunted it is hard to even find a buck but most of the county is privetly owned and posted with no way of getting permission and a lot of damage stamps are given out. The day we took that drive we saw over 200 deer in a 12 mile stretch and about 50 bucks in one field there were 5 bucks and 2 of them were shooters.