Get a cup of coffe and a snack this might be long.
I grew up hunting public land in my home state of VA. Any of you that hunt public land know what a hassle it can be at times and the problems that can come of it. Since I'm only 38 most of my life I have not been in the position to purshase my own land but am always on a quest to find better less populated places to hunt. In 1992 I moved to WI and was exctatic because at the time it was ranked in the top five states to take a trophy buck in the country. Not sure where it ranks now but still pretty high.
One morning at a church meeting a guy I had just met asked me to go to breakfast. I told him I couldn't because I had plans to look over some public hunting land for the up coming season (my first WI hunting season). He told me if I had a little time he could show me a good place to hunt right down the road. Where do ya think I went? Turns out the guy I will call the Land Barron Who is now in his late 40's Started buying farms when he was 19. He is not a hunter or a farmer just an investor. We went to 900 acre farm 10 minutes from my house.
hardwood thickets dotted the land with a thick river bottom running from one end to the other (thought I died and went to heaven). he had other farms but at that time noone had permision to hunt this one and If I liked I could hunt it all I wanted.
Told ya this would be long. I know no other way

This was going to be my first year trying my hand at bow hunting. The second weekend after the season opener I managed to put an arrow into my first WI monster better then 130" non typical 220 dressed. I have had the pleasure of taking a few nice deer over the years there. Then gun season came. By this time i had got permission for two friends to hunt the land also. We spent the remainder of the season running off guys that got permission to hunt one season ten years ago, guys that got permission from a friend, guys that didn't understand they were on private property after the crossed the bobwire fence. In the nature of sharing the wealth I have taken people hunting on this land who wanted to hunt but had no place to and noone to show them what to do. My mailman seen me skinning a buck at home one day ended up taking him and his kid out there. Took a few of my customers out there.(selfemployed) Then you end up running them off because one hunt means they have permission for life or they bring a friend who brings a friend who brings a friend, well you get the picture. This year two of my kids had thier first hunts on this land. We have found tracks in the snow leading to and from our stands, we have one stand missing only to find someone elses stand up a hundred yards away with a trail cam over looking a bait pile that is illegal in my county.
i've had to ask guys to get out of my stand(a hang on) and everyone has permision or did at one time. My experience is if you let em on it's hard to get em off. Maybe these are some extrem cases but then again six people lost thier lives in WI over trespassing, Maybe it's not extrem at all. i'm currently looking to buy my own land for the 2006 season, i will post it and I will use whatever means the Law allows to keep people off it. And yes i will still probably hunt the land I have permission to go on. Might even make adjustments with my chainsaw to a few trees holding other guys stands ( just kidding!!!! Two wrongs never make a right) WOW I have told my kids that too.........

Whether PETA or any other non hunting people are against us or even exist if you hunt where other people hunt you will probably more then likely run into someone doing stupid crap you disagree with. It's human nature.