And currently only bow(it's bow season here) with me also having a bit of shakiness/excitement when trying to shoot.

I understand completely. if it makes you feel any better I have many character wittiness on here. (Buzzard mainly so that probably doesn't help.) I always support our troops because I feel guilty for never serving, but feel indebted to those that do. It's an open invitation,. When you are ready, we will be too. Do your research. I promise a heck of a good time. Prime hunting and 3 stocked fish ponds.

Very very tempting, maybe next season we can, because I've wanted to travel to more states and meeting up with another trapper from here is always a nice experience of in itself.
And your support is greatly appreciated, it's actually people like you that make us better and more willing to serve people like you.

^^^^ this ^^^^

Make your plans. I don't sell hunts. Always allow current service men and wounded warriors. Proud to say that so far we have a 100 percent success rate. You will have fun regardless. I can guarantee that.

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My Cabin is 10 or so miles south of Ft Wood, and there's a few million acres of Gov land all around the fort and plenty of area ON the fort, if your not waaaay too busy for that!

you will loose ground very fast if that is what keeps you out

it is everywhere

some great deer hunting with your back to the fence line or sign line as it be.

I can see using your time differently because you have little left.

you should find out the owner of that parcel and make contact tell them you hunt an adjacent property and if you had deer you shot with a bow cross the fence line , would they mind you retrieving it , would they like a call first , if they go hard no you may not cross ever for any reason then you call the warden and let him get the deer for the food bank at least that is how it is here.

I will try to ask next year when I have time. hopefully during the summer to ask. Because they do have a raised blind on their property, but I don't know if they ever use it.

So if you shoot a deer on your 1 acre plot and it runs on my property it gives you the right to trespass on my property????

I wasn't trying to make this into a political post. Lol
And in Mi we would need to go ask the land owner first. They literally say that in the Hunter's Ed courses and was repeated by the DNR officer there.

For your first contact with neighbors, don't even mention hunting. You just want to know who your neighbors are and to let them know who you are. The rest comes later.....maybe next year. This is a long game.

Each state will have it's onw laws on this.

BTW, I would have assumed MI had decent deer. Got a knock on my door last fall.......3 young men from MI. Had come to MO to hunt deer. Found State Conservation land too crowded and (as story went) had driven around to find decent looking cover and were knocking on doors when they found it. Unfortunately, farm they asked about wasn't mine to grant permission. It was also leased, so no joy.

But when I asked why not hunt MI deer, they said MI deer were scrawny and MO deer were huge by comparison. News to me.

Yes. Not only is it legal to trespass, if you don't, after wounding an animal that crosses a property line, you can be charged with a violation of the regulations. You can not take your gun/bow with you but you must make "a reasonable effort to retrieve it from the field."

ADC, maybe in Iowa, but not here. Trespassing without permission will get you a Must Appear in Court with a $500 fine and or 90 days in jail. Doesn't matter if you're attempting to retrieve game or not on another's property and the term "wanton waste" that so many people misconstrue only applies to waterfowl here. You still need permission.

True. Like ADC said, in Iowa you can legally retrieve game shot on another property if necesarry. You can't carry a weapon when doing so.
I've done this twice with deer. Both times I let the landowner know first what I was doing.

That's what I said.

PARTIAL UPDATE!

So I took a drive around the block to see where exactly the house was and come to find out, and it's the ONLY place on the block with very noticeable NO TRESPASSING OR HUNTING signs on it. Like I literally looked to see who all had one and they were the only ones. It's like the only person that has NO TRESPASSING signs on their yard has to be the one who is RIGHT behind and by the property I live on.
And as you can probably can tell that I am a little bit flustered at finding this out. Because if it was just in the woods than I would know it was only for safety concerns but now that I see that it's all over their property, my confidence level that it's only for safety is at a low. Because most if not all of the people I know who has a decent amount of land only has their no trespassing signs in the woods so that hunters won't(likely) be in their property if they decide to roam in that area for any reason during the season.
Even when I was working for the next door county and I had to go down people's driveways, and sometimes knock on their doors, the people with the NT signs in the front yard were a bit more on the rude/iffy side than the ones that weren't.