Well in north Dakota it had to be posted or you could hunt it, so that's what I was wondering. I had read an article that said it was not citable if there are no postings. I'll try and find it.
I agree that private is private and if you don't have permission you shouldn't be on it, but just was...
We have the same early season here in Minnesota to, awesome to get the kids out. But I think it's up to 18 years old and they go by themselves not with an adult which kind of is the point?? Not sure I like that so much but whatever. Then you have the 10 year old that shoots a 160" buck and now...
Basemap has a thing kinda like this, called remote marker. Type in the distance to target, then put a mark where it was and go find it. Haven't used it personally just messed with it, but seems it would be really handy in a deal like this.
Lol, thought the same thing last year when I got mine? WTF is this! I also put mine in a Ziploc and tape the whole thing to the antlers or whatever, they can unwrap it if they want to see it.