From all my experiences with hunting camps, I can tell you that you should have at least 50 acres per a person.

Your mininum investment should be about 200 acres if possible.

Now you do not have to own all of it, you can buy 100 acres and get a farmer to lease you 100 acres of his property.

A good farmer / hunter relationship is very important because you cannot afford to take off work to work your ground to maintain food plots and a farmer does it for a living.

But a farmers first job is to produce crops for himself and his customers and if the deer are damaging the crops then he cannot afford to stay in buisness.

If the farmer shoots the deer for crop damage, then you have to realize thatthey will not be there when you go to hunt it.

So if you could compensate the farmer some and help him out with his farm expenses and pay him for a small portion of his crops and ask him to leave some standing until the season is over. You could have food plots planted and properly maintained for less money than if you had to do them yourself.

The other half you have to realize is that today you only have 3 hunters, but if them 3 hunters are married and have kids. Some day that number might be 12 hunters. Then you will have a hunter in every tree in a 100 acre section of woods. Which is not a good thing.

If the land is available, then you have to strike while the brand is hot.

Land suitable for hunting is getting harder and harder to come by and the price does nothing but go up year after year.

My Uncle sold 106 acres of prime deer habitat in Pennsylvania with a large house - camp for $68,000.00 A6 years ago.

Now you cannot buy 20 acres for that amount of money.