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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirty" data-source="post: 306144" data-attributes="member: 6535">I miss the good old days as well when unposted land was plenty and hunting access was almost unlimited and I am sad my kids won’t experience that as I did. I will continue to show them how successful it can be to knock on a door and get permission by being friendly. It is still a very rewarding and often successful method to gain access to hunting ground. However...I’m done fighting this fight. I now wish this would have passed a few sessions ago as a straight “everything is posted” law rather than the fiasco it is now. I have hunted in other states where all land is posted. Sometimes it’s easy to get permission and sometimes it’s not. I admire the perseverance some of you have had with this, but with each additional day of pushback I feel like landowner/hunter relations are straining. The day will come soon when this change does occur and what I fear that we are gonna end up with after all of the battling is a bigger mess than we probably could have imagined...and a much worse hunting situation than we thought possible. Good luck to all of you who still have the energy and the personal reasons to keep this up. I’m out of both and to tell you the truth, I am not even sure exactly where the focus lies on the issue anymore. I feel like somewhere along the way it shifted from hunting and land access to just winning a fight at all costs.</blockquote>