I went out today... ..and I'm officially throwing in the towel on deer hunting...
I'm a stalker hunter for the reasons that I get cold extremely fast, and because it just doesn't sit right with me to ambush from a stand/sitting point. However this year I was in put in the position of having to sit for something to come by because one of our neighboring farms broke the 51 year gentlemans agreement/pact between the families to share hunting rights. They posted their lands and denied any verbal requests for permission from anyone. Then the landowner that inherited the land last year who lives in Erie brought down a crap load of friends and walked the property line along our shared borders, then pushed everything inward on their lands.
Since I couldn't risk crossing into their land, I had to sit in a makeshift stand made from a stripped out Scoty camper, freezing my toes off to see nothing other than 2 formations of geese fly over.
Now I could have gone to our border with the Clear Creek State Forest, or the border with the neighboring PAGC WCO that still honors the agreement made with the landowner 35+ years before him - but other kinfolk, friends, neighbors, etc, have "claims" to spots that I will not infringe upon.
....so screw it. I'll stick to birds, rabbits and rodentia critters when its warm. I can raise a frigging cow for the cost of a hunting license + doe tag, then shoot it at free will, having 3-5 times more meat.