Another deer season and football season have come and gone. At the risk of sounding clich‚, it seems like yesterday I headed to Wisconsin for a bow hunt and connected the HD box to my television for football viewing nirvana.

"Man, where did the time get off to?" I've heard myself say that over and over the past month. Albert Einstein proved that time can be a flexible thing if you travel fast enough. I beg to differ. I don't zip around at the speed of light, but every year, time just seems to pick up steam, and speed by faster than the year before.

How does one slow down Father Time? I am open to suggestions.

I plan on hunting only public land next deer season. My goal is to prove that with a little luck and a good deal of planning, anyone can tip the odds for success in his or her favor when hunting on public land. 

By my count, there are 200 million acres of public hunting land in this country (Here is the Report). That doesn't include a lot of federal hunting land, as the report I used included it in some states totals, then said that it didn't include it for others.

For the sake of argument, we'll use 200 million acres. There are 18.5 million hunters in the U.S. So, that means that for every hunter, there are nearly 11 acres of hunting land, and that is if every hunter visited public land.

I'd venture to say that 50 to 60 percent of hunters utilize their own land, a buddy's land, or a lease. It's probably closer to 60 percent, but here we will use 50 percent. Given that, you should have at least 22 acres all to yourself.

So, for the cost of a state hunting license, and a WMA license if needed, you can have a big plot of land to hunt on almost exclusively. You may have to fork over for a few tanks of gas to get there and back, but if you can split that with a couple of buddies, I can almost guarantee that you can find a place with little to no pressure on the deer, which can become your dream spot.