A group of us went duck hunting west of grand forks last fall. The vast majority of land is posted and it is going more so every year. A few spots we called landowners and got permission, others we were unable to get a hold of anyone. The last morning of the trip my buddy scouted a good field, loaded with mallards and a few geese. Called and got permission from a friendly land owner. We showed up the next morning and there was a large group of hunters already setting up there. They had talked to some guy who was out in the field in a pickup the night before and got permission. The actual owner we talked to lived in MN. We yielded the field to them as they had most of their spread out already. We left ND deflated and decided next year to just go through an outfitter in western MN, which won't be that much more since we'll save $$$ on licenses, gas, and the pain of trying to find who owns what and how the hell to get a hold of them. Oh, and the day before some old guy drove out screaming at us for driving on his unposted, picked field, that was dry as a bone, no ruts whatsoever. We weren't even sure if he owned the land, we just left.