Do your friends hunt?

Are you thinking public land or do your friends know people that have land?

I would strongly advise finding private land. You can get lucky with public land but you will not know if it is hunted by many or few hunters. My friends family hunts a lot of land and in the middle of it is public land. You would never know it was there unless you had a map that shows you where public land are located within the state. The entrance to that spot is not posted and the owner next to the opening placed a no hunting sign there. So that land is a good spot if you find it. Our state doesn't have the numbers of deer other states have, but I like it that way.