I still hunt lots of areas smaller thAn 2 acres. Sure they often hold nothing. Often they get pushed out of the big areas and end up in the smaller ones. This year the large woods to the south was not hunted. The deer they normally push out never came over to the north. We did see them going into the south woods from the north.
We we have a one mile square with corn this year. We have seen deer just lie down in the middle around a wet patch.