When I hunt with my wife's relatives on their land in western Maryland, there's a mix of terrain, none of flat! Typical Appalachian mountains, elev 2500-3000 ft. Short shots are 20 yards in the hardwoods and laurels. Firelanes can easily go 100yrds and the one open field (from a strip mining effort 40 years ago) has shots to 400 yards if one were good enough and so inclined, although in deer season, bucks avoid the open spaces.

This fall I'll either be back in Minnesota or up in Maryland. I don't have access to private land here in North Carolina, and to me it's worth the travel to have better control of who you're in the woods with when the light is coming up pre dawn.

Chris