some landowners are dicks and some hunters are too. ruins it for everyone both ways.
And there is more every year. One bad egg ticks off ten good people and it feeds on itself.
I see posts of landowners that put time and money into attracting wildlife to hunt for themselves. I can sure understand that and wish them luck. Some save their land for family and friends. I can also understand that. Some post and have their hand out, forgetting that a large portion of their income is that other guys taxes. As a capitalist I dislike the socialist subsidy program.
About the only thing I hunt anymore is deer and coyote. Deer on relatives land and coyotes where farm friends have asked me to come and shoot coyotes.
I still do a lot of shooting, but less hunting every year. Many reasons for that. Artificial knees, rotator cuff surgeries and problems, neuropathy ( cost me $9k last week to replace teeth when my face bounced off my stone patio. Very poor balance. Then there are the landowners. When your respectful some are nice many are not. I have run into to many to talk to them anymore. Those who say they have no problem either open their wallet or they are liars.
Unfortunately groups like Farm Bureau push things like electronic posting. I can't remember a single thing Farm Bureau has done that benefits anyone but them. This is all going to end with no private land hunting, and no support for agriculture. We are shooting each other in the foot. The don't touch my corn isn't rare.
Oh, and mostly what I see is landowners crapping on other landowners. Like a relative who has 800 acres of river bottom of which 20 acres is hay. Some years it comes up sweet clover and the neighbor drives back and fourth through it looking for deer. The same guy posted a neighbors field after the neighbor said he could not. He talked one neighbor into letting him post three sections. He said they would pay him $100 per deer that they took. They took a lot and said they got nothing. We had hunted the land for years so we asked knowing what to expect, but curiouse. He said the property tax on the aea we wanted to hunt was $2800 and if we gave him $2800 we could hunt it. It wasn't his land. It's not always the city people that are the problem.