One of the main problems with buying land soley to hunt on and/or QMD is money. I have barely enough money to support my wife and two kids. Hey who wouldn't love to buy a bunch of land. Let me give you an example. Not too long ago my wife and I went to look at what was advertised as a small farm with 30+ acres. This so called farm was an abandoned run down shack in which the foundation was crumbling. as you can see by my name, i am in the business of renovations and such. I figured to get the house just into living conditions it was going to cost me well over $60,000 !!! That's not the half of it. The land was a huge field with atleast 20 oil wells spread thoughout it. The oil wells were not only unsightly, they smelled horrible. The mineral rights to these wells were owned by somebody else. That means that whoever owned these rights was/is able to come onto the property anytime they wanted to and that meant to me that the land would be never truly ours. That's still not all. The guy wanted no less than $90,000 dollars for it. Now with that being said, you would need to hire a lawyer if you bought any kind of land to check to make sure you would own ALL mineral rights to the land. ALL meaning coal, oil, natural gas, gold, silver, whatever. Plus if you buy property that has timber on it, you have to make sure that somebody doesn't own the timber rights to the land too. All in all, if the land is worth anything at all, unless you are a millionaire, you can't afford it!!! This means any good hunting hunting land is either taken or not for sale.