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sleek:
If you were to bow hunt  on private land, how many acres at minimum would you require to hunt? Im thinking mostly about tracking after the shot, and being able to stay on the hunting plot.

bjrogg:
Sleek I think that depends on so many variables. Neighbors and what the property and surrounding property is like. I could show you thousands of acres that would probably be a waste of time to hunt like we do on. I could show you three or five acre plots that will produce year after year. Lots of them with open fields surrounding them that you could watch a well hit animal go down. Most neighbors aren't going to refuse permission to retrieve a animal from their property that you can see. It is nice to have more than one hunting spot though. I wouldn't turn down a good close small one though to add to the list.
Bjrogg

Pappy:
Even a well hit deer will get off a few acres in a hurry and probably will, so for me it would all depend on, as BJ said, the folks that own the land around it. If they have no problem then any size will work. Nothing worse having a deer you know is down and can't go get it, and believe it or not their are a lot of folks around that won't let you.  >:(
 Pappy

Pat B:
Talk to the neighbors beforehand.  :OK

osage outlaw:
We have 75 acres and fairly often our deer will cross property lines before going down. We have a good relationship with our neighbors.   We call them before we go on their property and call them when we are off.  We also never leave a gut pile.

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