I hunt all private with permission, but this year I am going to try my luck on a few tracts of public land. I am more or less preparing for the future because the private with permission is a very fragile thing, land changes ownership or people come in and tie it up in a lease. So I figure I better get to know some of the public land in the area so when the day comes that I cant be as lucky as i am now, it wont be a big shock to me and I will feel confident on some public ground.

In Nv. the gov. owns about 70% of the state BLM DOI Forest service Its all public land hunts except maybe 10,000 acres of farms 150 here 150 there 150 miles apart.

I voted private land permission and public land. I need more land![:@]

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I hunt a little bit of private with permission, a bit I own, and a bit more of it is public.

Ken

i do about 50/50 public land and private land i gain permission to hunt. the only land we own is the back yard...hard for a deer to get in a 6ft fence

while at college i mainly hunt public land. i tried finding private land up there but it seemed impossible. i put 150miles on the truck (80 there and back and 70 driving around up there) and couldnt find anything. lotttts of land...but its alllll crops so large i cant track down a land owner...some didnt have any woods...some woods were so large i couldnt find a land owner...even without posted signs i still wont hunt private land w/o permission. other places are hunted so hard it was visible from the road.

looks like i will stick with my public land hunting while at college...i got 2 state parks and a couple state gamelands within a 25min drive..2 game lands are 11 and 9k acres..the state parks are LARGE...i only hunted one of the gamelands last year...didnt think of my other options

here at home i got permission to hunt a small private apple orchard and a bunch of other land/farmland. im good friends with a farmer and he gets me connections...

I wasn't sure how to answer this one as I hunt privately owned paper company land that the public can use..No permission needed at this time..

public, can't afford my own land or a lease.

Camo


Me too.

i hunt 50% private(family owned), 35% public and probably 15% private(w/permission)

Evergreen N.C. Family owned farm land