This is the OB. Anything less than about 20 sections is a ranchette and not nearly enough to really hunt on unless you high fence it and go canned hunting.

Real answer: buy all you can afford and make it yours. Dont worry about what internet message board King Ranch wannabes really dont matter.

50 acres is more than enough if all you plan to do is shoot a deer or 2 a year and make memories with family. Put a blind on one side and shoot to the middle.

04.arch.ag said:

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50 acres is more than enough if all you plan to do is shoot a deer or 2 a year and make memories with family. Put a blind on one side and shoot to the middle.

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Putting a blind anywhere within 1 mile of a fenceline makes you a terrible neighbor and a horrible person in general. /OB

Someone musta got their Cheerios peed on this morning..

Central TX (B-CS area), have/live on 60 acres, rectangular in shape, about 25 acres homesite/ pasture, 35 acres woods. Hard to imagine much more than 1, maybe 2 blinds, deer readily travel across the property, neighbors don't hunt.
Dove definitely don't hang around, likely due to having improved (Jiggs Bermuda) pasture.
Big enough when I go to "the back", I feel kinda remote.
But having my own 300yd shooting range makes it all good!
Edited to add: damn hogs do come through often enough, I have to stay diligent for damage control.

Deer- 50 acres works well if there's not much pressure around you. 50 acres does not work well if the other properties around you are all 50 acres and they all have two hunters on them. Dove it really doesn't matter as long as you have water.

Either way, buy as much as you can afford. You'll always regret not buying more. Good luck and just incase you didn't know or have doubts, this is a good thing!