Managing people is much more difficult than managing deer. We went the LLC route and had the LLC buy the land and each person owned shares in the LLC. There are many considerations that need to go into the LLC member agreement. What happens when someone wants to sell? What if opinions on how to mange diverge? How do you manage hunting pressure? You have to learn to compromise and so do the others. As the song goes..."Ya don't always get what you want..."
The big advantage of going this route is that you have a chance to acquire enough land to give you the scale to do QDM (depending on how many folks and the cost of land in your area). Without sufficient scale, you won't be successful at QDM. The second advantage is that, even if you could afford enough land for sufficient scale by yourself, do you have the resources to manage that much land by yourself? Having help with the work is important.
When you own property yourself, you have a free hand in management and hunting decisions. That is the biggest advantage of owning it yourself.
There are advantages and disadvantages both ways. A lot depends on your personality and the personality of the others and how well they align (not just now when starting, but how well they will stay aligned in the future.
Thanks,
Jack