I really think you'd be disappointed if you bought up there brooks. I've got family that's owned land just south of there for 30+ years and the deer just don't get big like they do in farm country. Every local knows when you're gone and will be on it hunting, wolves are thick, that public land gets pounded, lots of brown and downers (poorest county in mn,people live off of venison in season or out), and numbers are way down. My uncle and grandpa quite hunting early every year and go home because they just don't see anything. I'd find a piece with no public land around it in transition farm/woods country and start talking to every neighbor. I've just heard and seen way too many horror stories from people that own land next to public to want to own any in mn.