re: Thinking about buying a couple hundred acres of hunting land and living on it

You're going to need more land than 100 acres. You'll need about an acre per animal, depending on amount and quality of grazing pasture present, but that's a pretty fair assessment, you will also need hay in the winter and that stuff ain't cheap. Water will take up a helluva lot of land, especially if using it for drinking, watering animals (they drink a lot), and crops, don't count on the rain to do this. Also gardening is a hellacious amount of work for minimal returns. If going to feed grains to animals, i.e. corn to finish hogs and cows, the feed conversion sucks, so there's more acreage for corn. It goes on and on. Farming for a living is hard work 24/7/365.