I feel your pain on landing good ground. I'm leasing and living on 125 acres this year in Norwalk right on the North river that I found out very quickly is prime. My buddy and I are also going to out with the GL2 this fall trying to put together some good stuff. We will be hunting 3 farms around this area, and have been very fortunate to land some nice properties in the area because like you said the big wigs have it locked up for the most part. It's nice being from this area and knowing people, but if a guy was to come into this area blind he would be hard to pull any private land.

I shot that big one November 07. I figure I now have one over 200 inches and my other two larger deer are in the 140's so There is a good 60 inches in between there to feel in with some nice deer. I like looking at it that way instead of "I WILL NEVER SHOOT A BIGGER BUCK THEN I ALREADY HAVE" haha