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Where’s ur hunting property??

ZSully said:
I have a couple private farms within 30 minutes that I hunt early on. I also have a camp in NW Pa in the middle of the Allegheny National Forest. It’s about 3.5 hours from home and I usually try to make 2 longer trips up there during hunting season. I wish I was closer to the big woods because that’s where I grew up and hunting the big woods is what really fires me up.
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I’m from NW Pa originally. Good friend has a camp in Kane
 
200 ac 5 minutes away, 100 acres 10 mins away and public anywhere from 15 mins to however far I feel like driving.
 
We've got 36 acres; 10 in crops with rest wooded. Surrounded by ag land and forest. Also hunt a vet school buddy's place in the Shenandoah Valley; 250 acres of overgrown fields, switchgrass and oak ridges surrounded by the George Washington National Forest...been going there for over 30 years. Consider myself very lucky.
 
Could hunt right out the back door but we only have 3 acres here (with minimal trees) so the experience is not the same to me. I have worked for the DNR going on 20 years on 2 different public hunting properties so I tend to hunt those just as much as my private spots especially during archery season. I am extremely fortunate to have a few private spots, 8,000 acres of public land less than a mile from the house, and another 5,000 acres of public 20 minutes away where I currently work. Deer and turkeys are plentiful around here and I have a flexible work schedule and ample leave time. I try not to take this for granted and when I count my blessings everyday......I count all of this twice!
 
i have 2 public spots both are 5 min from me. About 15 other pieces of public all withing 20min. None of them are bigger than 500 acres but still nice too hunt. All big timber and small patches of fields here n there. Have some state forest 50k acres 1 hr away. Have some small privatez spots that i have access to but i dont like setting up on 30 acre spots where half is mowed lawn. Borrrrrring. Nice if u dont hunt alot and need meat i guess. Shot a doe on our property this morning tho... liberal neighbors went out of town and i had to scratch that itch!
 
Jasper2 said:
Could hunt right out the back door but we only have 3 acres here (with minimal trees) so the experience is not the same to me. I have worked for the DNR going on 20 years on 2 different public hunting properties so I tend to hunt those just as much as my private spots especially during archery season. I am extremely fortunate to have a few private spots, 8,000 acres of public land less than a mile from the house, and another 5,000 acres of public 20 minutes away where I currently work. Deer and turkeys are plentiful around here and I have a flexible work schedule and ample leave time. I try not to take this for granted and when I count my blessings everyday......I count all of this twice!
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Blessed! I would love 8k less than a mile away. Jealous...
 
Either out the back door or 5 other public areas across two states all within a 25 - 45 minute drive
 
There are 69k acres of game land within 20 minutes of driving here in the Sandhills. It’s beautiful until gun season when the dog hunters come in and run all over the place. Saving private properties for that time.
 
I am truly blessed, I have three private properties I hunt on in my same hometown and there are several state game land areas within 10 minutes to 30 minutes from my home. Last year for the first time ever I hunted in another state on public game lands within 35 minutes of my home too.
 
1500 acre hunting club 15 minutes from the house. But it cost an arm and a leg.
 
I own 38 acres,so out the back or front door if i want. There are also 115 acres 1/4 mile down the road that i can hunt,sort of a disputed family property. I only hunt that a few times. Then a friends 300 acres about 2 minutes away. Another friends 100 acres 5 mins away. And four or five 1500 acre state forest pieces that i will hunt during bow,not gun. It is pretty nice,though i am still working on my first trophy buck.
 
I hunt behind the house when time is short, and have thousands of acres of open abandoned mining land that is privately owned within a 30-60 min drive. I have a few really good setups there, but behind my house is the honey hole. I just don't pressure it till the right time. I also hunt a couple of 90 acre farms in VA that I have permission on. With the combination of Ky and Va's rifle and black power seasons, I really dont bow hunt much at all.
 
State park 30 minute drive for me. It opens at 8AM and I have not violated that time.
 
One public 2 hours away. That’s a 9 day hunt.

One private, 45 min away. 4 food plots and a duck impound. Corn field for goose across the road.


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I am blessed with som ok property near me and some really good property an hour and a half away. Both private and public.
 
I got over 6 million acres to hunt but at the mercy of the quota system. I have 2 no quota public and 1 private spot all within hour and half drive ..... Slowly accumulating places to don't require extra quota paperwork... But few and far between. Learning the system is difficult but opens opportunities maybe not every other hunter knows
 
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