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
Last edited by Geo. Newbern; 11/02/08 02:28 PM.
