Sooo since this money is now going to govt.....or a lot of it is, whats the point? Land owners will never give open access to their land. It is their job, do folks get let into your job to do as they wish?
Easy solution, go buy say 150 acres of land, improve it to hold game and hunt yer butt off. Then let me know if I can hunt there

ownership changes the entire game there. Non owner city folk want to be able to hunt where ever they choose. It dont work.
We had CAP land many years ago, folks abused it, was dropped, then walk in hunting, it too was abused so land owners dropped out of it.. See a pattern?
I had some idiot shoot the radiator in my truck one time. WTF?? cost me 200 to put a new rad in there. Our land is posted. As is all of my neighbors land. We hunt it, we work it, we put in hours each summer planting food plots, clearing tree falls repairing fences etc. Go up to a landowner and offer to help out, maybe you will be treated to some land to hunt. or gp up to one and tell him how much govt subsidy he gets (public info) and tell him he has to let you on his land to hunt

Please post yer results here.