Nick
Your comment here on me hunting suburbia is 100% wrong!!!!!!!!
I did have permission on a suburban property back in the mid 1990's for 1 year before it was developed, but I never took a buck from it!!!!!!!!!! Did take a couple does for the freezer during the late bow season.
I have taken 2 record book bucks in Michigan on 2 acre parcels and for you to even suggest that they were suburban areas just because of there size is ludicrous. There are lots of rural properties in Michigan that are 1 to 5 acres in size that hold deer because they are nearly 100% bedding areas with excellent security cover. It's not the size of the property, but rather the quality of it and I'll take a 1 to 5 acre parcel of bedding area over a 200 acre parcel of ag with some timber with no understudy anytime.
I hunted a 20 acre free permission property in Michigan for 6 years and took 3 P&Y bucks from it while the other 2 hunters that had permission as well and lived in the area and hunted it much more frequently than I, took none in those 6 seasons. They were hunting the back side of the property where it butted up to an ag field while I was hunting within the heavy security cover that ran along the road. I lived a couple hours away and when I did hunt there yet was in before they were on morning hunts and came out after they did on evening hunts so I never met them until I took a 136 inch 10 point during midday in 2006. When I was dragging the buck out one of them drove in and saw me and that was he end of me hunting there because he knew the property owner personally and I had just stopped by and asked for permission. My point is that they were hunting the typical obvious spots on the small parcel while I was hunting someplace they never thought about hunting because it was so close to the road and dense cover. It's not the size or the amount of competitors, it's where you hunt vs. the competition.
Concerning my 25 to 30 foot hunting height that has been brought up on this thread many times as to why I pay ZERO attention to wind direction and don't get winded, I've been hunting that high since the 70's and I always got winded when mature deer were downwind no matter the height. The reason I hunt high is to get away with minor movements at crunch time and to keep out of a deer's peripheral vision.
Again, no matter what the naysayers think, I pay zero attention to wind direction and know how to properly care and use ScentLok.