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Thanks, Lowell. Deer hunters here must have a deer license, currently limited to one buck. Hunters may hunt on any non-posted private forest land without permission of the owner beyond prescribed distances from dwellings (not their own), schools or public places. Forest land means a wooded area, forest stand, tract covered by underbrush, barren ground, marsh or bog.

No one can be prosecuted if they're hunting lawfully on land where the occupier has not put up signs or refused consent. Hunters may not hunt without permission on lands fenced to keep animals in or people out, managed for agricultural crops or berry-picking , tree plantations, vineyards, orchards, golf courses, etc. It works fairly well for landowners and hunters. Trespass cases are rare.

Most rural people are respectful of others' property. Many wouldn't enter forest lands without the owner's permission. My 93-year-old hunting buddy remembers a time when no one would think of letting their dog run on a neighbour's land. That has changed, of course, but there's enough private and public land to hunt on to keep owner-hunter relations generally harmonious.

Georgia has tried to provide public hunting area with a system of state owned management land and by relaxing the legal standard of care owed by land owners to invitees and hunting lease holders. The vast majority of huntable land in the state, though is private, and private means PRIVATE. After having deer hunted public land while I was in college years ago, I have no interest in sharing the woods with people I don't know.

Luckily, I do have land of my own to hunt as well as lease land I share with others I do know and trust. I lease the larger part of my own middle Georgia timber tracts to hunting clubs composed of the (sons now) of hunting buddies I've known since the '60s. Resident landowners and immediate family don't have to buy a license to hunt their land, but I always do anyhow since I hunt other places besides my own land.

I wish we had sufficient wild lands here to enjoy the system King has described. Just too many Georgians nowadays for that to work though...Geo

Not posted, the answer is still no hunting.
If it isn't yours, or been invited...get the hell out, you've no business there!

Exactamundo. May I send you some rubber buckshot?

In Pennsylvania, where I used to live, you must have a license to hunt your own land unless you made over half your income from farming. That's one reason I moved to Tennessee. I can hunt my own land without a license. I just fill out a paper form when I tag big game. Plus, unlike PA, I can hunt on Sunday.