Our farm is about 2,500 acres but is not great deer hunting. My father-in-law's farm is about 3,000 acres and is great hunting (70 miles away). So, that's about 5,500 acres of private land (but I only hunt the in-laws usually). That being said, with a 3-month old (as well as a 3-year old) and $3 gas, I spent a lot of time scouting locally and found 3 nice bucks about 6 miles from my house that I patterned the past 6 weeks, got permission to hunt about 200 acres there (private land) and will be hunting September and early October there, then moving to my in-laws as the rut approaches. So, I hunt only private land (for deer), I hunt a lot of public (and private) land for waterfowl, and hunt mostly public land for pheasants and grouse.