You better believe I would buy a giant piece of land, but no chance in hell I would fence it. With the fence, you keep out just as much as you keep in. If I had a piece of land of that size, say 1000 acres, pretty tough for poachers to do any real damage. I may be way off here, but I don't see poachers as an army of people who descend upon newly purchased land and rape and pillage until all the game is gone. My experience has been isolated incidents. No doubt that poachers have killed plenty of deer, but it is something that I really don't stay up worrying about. I have faith in the local law and also I have faith in my ability to monitor my property in such a way that I know where activity occurs that is not of my doing. With 1 acre or 1000 acres, someone is going to be pissed that YOU have it and THEY don't.