My dad's place is small - 17 acres but it's been VERY productive. We have a membership at a 15,000 acre hunting ranch 3 hours away that we haven't used in 3 years now. The key is LOW IMPACT. Also, in the spring, we always do two or three projects to improve the habitat. So far we've planted three food plots (bucks banquet, rye, clover), pumpkins, corn, turnips, pruned a buch of overgrown apple trees that are once again productive, cut travel routes through VERY dense brush, added a pond, and planted over 200 trees. We also use corn feeders in the off season as well as mineral blocks. In three seasons I've killed two decent bucks and he got a big 9 point. The surrounding property is mostly open fields with some wood lots. We don't have resident deer but they are always passing through to feed. The biggest problem is the neighbors are a bunch of low life violators. Bow season sounds like Vietnam sometimes. But we've always got our deer despite the idiot neighbors.