Another vote for the southern part of the U.P. of Michigan if for no other reason than they start their rifle season on November 15 every year unlike Wisconsin where we get the week of Thanksgiving and end up hunting post rut bucks that are moving less. Guys are leaving northern Wisconsin big woods for easier agricultural hunting in the southern 2/3 of the state if they can find a place to hunt. The SW part of the state has milder winters for less winter kill and fewer predators, not counting Roundoak, and my two boys do real well hunting there on their 40 acres. At one point dad had 180 acres in NE WI. and we had the fun of paying the taxes, but the neighbors hunted the heck out of it. If you want a cheap big woods hunt, there is no reason to buy anything because you can wilderness camp with a camping trailer anywhere in the Nicolet-Chequamegon National Forest and there is a bunch of it in northern WI.
