I found some land for sale during the summer and made a similar offer; figured if they couldn't sell it by November, maybe they'd be willing to take a few dollars to let me hunt it. Tried it on a couple of listings, but never found any takers.

Why don't you want to hunt public land? There is some good areas out there, although you do need to learn how to hunt them. If you position yourself right, you can even take advantage of the other hunters' movements to push deer to you.