GMMAT, I forgot to say yesterday that this is a great post and that its pretty civil with a lot of great viewpoints, no matter what you believe.

I'm just going to say one more thing and then I should be quiet as I posted enough already on this. To me, this whole thing comes down to the world in general not being so black and white. There are grey areas and this is one of them.

Would I enter your house, your yard, or damage your crops? No, of course not. Would I step a few feet over the property line to get a deer I arrowed? Yes, I would and wouldn't fault someone for doing the same on my property. It's a judgement call. It's what feels right to you. I don't feel its because the person retreiving the deer feels they're entitled to the land. If that was true, they'd have set up on the land and hunted it in the first place with no regard for the owner.

The good hunters, hopefully the majority, are simply going to go in and get their deer and not likely ever carry it to the next level of acutally hunting your land or robbing your house. It's not fair to lump them in the same pile with criminals and habitual intentional trespassers who actually shoot deer on your land itself. Just as its not fair to lump someone who goes two miles over the speed limit on the highway with someone who goes 50 miles over the limit in a school crossing zone.

The law is the law. But life itself is a matter of compromise. Those who abide by one extreme or another are destined for a lot of disappointment.