Not a hunter, but how much land does it take to hunt deer?

2 acres is not enough land to hunt unless you’re surround by national forest. Can you hunt it yes if there are no restrictions, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

If you’re really trying to do things the right way, I’d say you shouldn’t hunt properties less than 20 acres. In most places of the country it takes at least 10 acres to produce and feed 1 deer so that would be the ethical mindset

From a safety and recovery perspective, you want your hunting location to be at least 100 yards from neighboring fence lines and that would be a challenge on 2 acres

If I owned 500 acres and my 2 acre neighbor was filling his tags (5 deer per hunter in my county) I would be pissed. Larger land owners often spend thousands per year on corn, protein, food plots to grow and sustain the local deer population. Nobody “owns” the deer but those deer are only passing through the 2 acres on the way to their home range

What you can do legally and what is ethical are often two different things. My mindset is all about sustainability and conservation of the resource. As land continues to be fragmented, these challenges become more and more common. City people often think they want to hunt their 5 acre parcel and it causes many safety and environmental issues

Depends on where you are at.
Midwest 10 acres and maybe less is plenty if you are around other woods/ag land.

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Larger land owners often spend thousands per year on corn, protein, food plots to grow and sustain the local deer population.

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What the neighbors spend shouldn't be your concern.

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If I owned 500 acres and my 2 acre neighbor was filling his tags (5 deer per hunter in my county) I would be pissed. Larger land owners often spend thousands per year on corn, protein, food plots to grow and sustain the local deer population.

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Does the guy next to both of yall with 3000 acres get to be extra pissed? Where does it end? If someone has legal access to the land, is being safe with their shots, and is able to attract and take deer on small acreage more power to them. There are more deer in North America today than any other time in history, the resource isn’t in danger of being over harvested by people with two acres.

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Does the guy next to both of yall with 3000 acres get to be extra pissed? Where does it end? If someone has legal access to the land, is being safe with their shots, and is able to attract and take deer on small acreage more power to them. There are more deer in North America today than any other time in history, the resource isn’t in danger of being over harvested by people with two acres.

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Does the guy that had 30k acres next to 3k acres get pissed? Yeah that could go on and on.

It’s fricking retarded to hunt 2 acres 99% of the time. You better know your neighbors really fricking well if you’re hunting 2 acres. I’ve got a several thousand acre neighbor and a 2 20 acre neighbors and the several thousand acre neighbor high fenced out one of them .

The reason he fenced him out was because he has zero trees on 20 acres of grass and put his feeder very close to the fence line. The other one at least has brush now but they have had a feeder that would thrown corn on our place back in the day.

For the record I’m going to bust a big arse axis on 3 to 5 acres

But the neighbors have their 3 acres cleared with a nice little cabin on the on the river and we have the other 850 acres around them.

I have bigger deer on my 2 acres in Covington right now than I do on a 10,000+ acre lease in north Louisiana.

I'm honestly thinking about just doing a stand in the back yard on the river and not ducking with the lease anymore, it's kind of shocking how big some of the deer are here on the northshore

Like others have said. It needs to back up to wooded property.
I just bought six acres, oldest boy bought thirteen and youngest bought eight. They are all joined together. All our property backs up to a huge timber company hunting lease.

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zero trees on 20 acres of grass and put his feeder very close to the fence line.

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This is illegal in most states, and you have to use common sense like I said. If he put in the work to get a good plot going on that 20 acres and moved the feeder into the property and shot a good deer, that’s the game.

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Part of the reason Louisiana deer hunting shite I’m so many areas is because you end up having a different hunter on every 10-20 acre block trying to fill all 6 tags.

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There are an estimated one million deer in Louisiana, more than any other time in history. If anything the south in general needs to increase harvest.