re: How small is too small?

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My problem with this is that it is not sustainable. In most places it take anywhere from 10-20 acres to sustain one deer. You’re killing way more deer than that 4 acres can produce and if everyone starts doing this, soon there will be nothing to hunt

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It all depends on the lay of the land. Most of the time there are plenty of neighbors that don’t hunt. In the Midwest there’s a lot of nice bucks killed on small tracks with bow and arrow in urban areas or suburban areas where the deer are just moving in the hills and drainages between fields and home sites.

OP talks a lot about neighbors hunting. But there’s a lot of neighbors that don’t hunt and some of them may want fewer deer. My father in law lives on 13 acres on a lake in Tennessee and they are over run with deer. It’s a bunch of 3 or 4 acre tracts with some 10-20 acres mixed in, no one really hunts. His driveway you may see 20-30 deer. Maybe one decent 10 point about 120 inches or so a year that eventually gets shot.

There’s plenty of situations hunting a small tract is safe and frankly good for all the neighbors. But if it’s rural and next to a large tract trying to manage their bucks, that’s a little different. You have every right to hunt them technically though

I wouldn't worry about the land being too small to hunt on. I have 80 acres that I hunt on and I still hunt on the property lines so I can hunt the edges.