Clean up, and go to knocking on doors. Go to the court house and find who owns what. Know the guys name and introduce yourself. Anything you do like teach bowhunter safety or volunteer or whatever should come out in the conversation. You got one chance to show them you're trustworthy and will be responsible. All they can do is say no. Thank them for their time and leave. Stop back in a few months and say hi. Stop back next year and ask again. All they can do is say no.

Short story. I stopped and ask this one farmer in Georgia for about5 years straight. We always had a friendly conversation. On more than one occasion he thanked me for stopping to ask. He said so many just walk in and think they can do it. He also regularly complained of excessive deer numbers. YET, he kept saying no. I moved to Maryland. My first year in Maryland we went to Georgia over the Xmas holidays. I went hunting on some Georgia Pacific land about 4 miles down the road from his house. On the way back to the house I saw him out in a field working on a piece of machinery. I stopped and talked to him. I kept up on the weather and the farming year through a friend that owned a farm so we had something to talk about in his world. I even helped with a couple wrenches etc. I finally said, well, I got to get to town..the family is waiting on me. He said, I missed you this year...you know, not coming to ask to hunt an all. He said, "You want to hunt, you come right ahead, but don't bring anyone with you". I laughed and thanked him and told him I had moved out of state for work. He said, well if you're ever here again and need a place you come on.