Blame the State. We've got about the lowest amount of public land set aside in the country. And we've got terrible hunting on that land because we have terrible management of our natural resources. The deer don't belong to the landowner they belong to the State.

Other than that the days of knocking on doors to deer hunt are pretty much over. You can still get away with it with waterfowl but that is because birds are here today and gone tomorrow. "Hey can I go out here behind your house and shoot these ducks" in this field or snow geese... the answer a lot of times is "Yes" in places like S. Dakota.

Deer the answer is almost always "No".

Bowhunting can open a lot of doors though to smaller tracts in suburban areas.