Just a few replies: The guy that suggested I buy the property if I wanted to hunt it--get real, man. I bought my 4 acres in 1987 for $15000. 5 acres 200 yds down the road from me just sold for $120,000+. I don't hunt on the neighbor's poste property, she only has 4 acres, it's too close to her house(500 ft limit in NY).
These city idiots think the deer are yard ornaments--they are FOOD, and if I don't eat them, the coyotes will. I was brought up to think of hunting as spend $1 of ammo, get $50 of meat--justifiable investment. Just very depressing, my ideal spot, built my own solar heated house(me, the backhoe guy, and one dumb carpenter's helper), sand bank in the backyard for ballistics research, 200 acres of unposted land behind me for venison, my original neighbors were cool about my shooting, and now the yuppies have moved in and just about shut me down. I test my .22 BR stuff by shooting through a roll of carpeting, so the neighbors think it's an air rifle. I'd sell and move to SC in a minute, but wifey won't move away from daughter and granddaughter--feeling trapped, and too old to climb the mountains like I used to. End of rant, shut it down.....