In Iowa the law states I have every right to recover my deer on any property as long as I am not carrying a weapon. Numerous times I have made a call or stopped by to let the landowner know I would be out there as spotlights in the woods get questions. But I have always told them I will be there never asked. The Iowa DNR says I shall make every attempt to recover the animal I shoot, its law to do it. I have had anti hunters tell me I couldn't and just politely tell them I wasn't asking and go about my retrieval.