Judd, today I went out to the public land area near where I live (my usual hunting destination). There weren't too many trucks in the parking lot but when I got within 200 yards of the ridge that I hunt, there were 3 hunters in stands that I could see. It's nearly a mile from the parking lot.

I turned around and hunted a different ridge. Didn't see anything. I looked at the sign-in sheets and nobody has been seeing anything. [&o]

Owing some private land sounds great.