pluckit, its the hunters RESPONSIBILITY to know who the land owner is and to then secure permission.
Without EXPRESS permission your trespassing, and thus ILLEGALLY hunting their land.

+1 I have to say I do not have much good to say about tresspassers. They are the reason a lot of landowners around here do not allow any hunting. I have had tresspassers on my place, and I don't take too kindly too it. My sister had people hunt in her windbreak within a couple hundred yards of her home because the lazy roadhunters saw a deer run in there when they were driving buy. I wish our state had bigger penalties for poaching on someones land.

Just because you can't be prosecuted that don't make it right.

Kinda odd this thread came up after finally meeting the guy that owns 40acres next to mine but across the main road. We NEVER set foot on his place and he lives in Maine but seldom visits his property in Mo. Never saw him at all in over 10 years but we knew it wasn't public land. He came walking up to say hi the last time i was down there, probably because he saw the new polebarn and the gate was open.

We told him how me and several adjoining land owners work it out and he joined in too. We don't just hunt our area, we manage it and keep the population levels healthy based on several factors and trail cam counts.

Now we have another 40 acres of mostly heavy woods to hunt and his relatives that live in town have prime river access to enjoy since all of his sits on a bluff with almost no private access. They don't hunt much but don't care if we do.

7.62nato check out www.deerdamage.org

Waiting on the invite. :poke:

You must have written permission. Refer to page 18 of your guide.
http://www.eregulations.com/maryland/hunting/pageFlip/

Then you will be prosecuted for hunting w/o written permission. Land owners need not post their land. That is why the law of written permission is in effect.

Furthermore if one does not have written permission then one would be trespassing.......

I can't fathom hunting a peice of land based on "hoping to get away with it" posted or not. That's the attitude responsible for so much posting these days. Hunters with the entitlement attiude who believe a landowner is greedy based on not wanting to allow anyone who wants to hunt their place to do so. I don't warn anymore, zero tolerance prosecution here.

Steve, you are welcome here anytime. I have access to 600 acres in southern and central Indiana. No trespassing required:lmao:.