It used to be that way here, but the times they are a changing! Most of the land is posted, and some of it belongs to hunt clubs. Unfortunately, the hunt clubs are becoming widespread. There is still a lot of public land here; most of it in the form of national forests and wildlife management areas. But, in my opinion they get the worst (and cheapest) land for public acess. Most of it is mountainous, rocky, poor soils, ful of laurel and rhododendron, etc.

There is a law here that states: you must have oral permission to hunt on unposted land (except the above mentioned), and written permission on posted land. My neighbor met a game warden during deer season, and was on his own property. The warden gave him a hard time about not having permission, and whether or not here was really the landowner!! He finally convinced him that he was!