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How Far Do You Travel To Hunt?

For my first 20 years of hunting, I drove 3 hours to my PA house every weekend to hunt my property and club property, during both bow and gun season. Missed a few not so close family weddings because of it. Started bow hunting locally about 10 years ago, all within an hours drive. Still do the annual pilgrimage to my PA house for opening day rifle with the family as well as bear opening day in NY with a buddy. And none of this would have been possible without Amsteel.

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Primarily hunting a public spot 1 hour away for 4000 acres

Have camper set at a campground on public land with ATV trail system 3 hours away for 25000 acres
 
Exhumis said:
I'm blessed that my properties are close by. One is about a 5 minute drive, the others are about 15 minutes. I don't own, just fortunate to find landowners that let me hunt their property.
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Same here, I’m extremely thankful for my landowners. And I let them know every chance I get.


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45 mins to an hr...hr and a half for me. Bow only is closer and Clemson actually does stuff to improve habitat so Ive spent more time there.
 
Blackmamba said:
45 mins to an hr...hr and a half for me. Bow only is closer and Clemson actually does stuff to improve habitat so Ive spent more time there.
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You hunt that bow only spot by the lake up there? Looks nice.

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89 miles from my front door to the camp. Our property borders a NWR...I hunt both depending on the day. Got drawn for a quota hunt on a WMA this year that’s only 10 miles from the house but never made it out there.
 
Currently stationed in Hawaii. My typical deer spot is a 25 minute plane ride. I’ve flown from here to NC the past few seasons (4600 miles) and to Alaska twice.


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My closest stand to my home is 150 yards but if I try to walk to it from the house, I'm just educating the deer that I'm hunting them. So sometimes my drive is literally 1 minute...I drive down my driveways and deer stand there and watch me cruise by. I park and sneak to my stands via low impact access trails from the road. It took me a lot of years to realize walking from, and back to, the house was horribly disruptive and counter productive.

The other area I hunt regularly is a 120 mile drive out of state.
 
95 acres in my backyard
4 miles from 985 acres of walk in, bow only public
86 miles from annual camp and hunt public land with my friends
93 miles to my wife and I annual tent camp, hunt and Trout retreat. Annual 4 day over Thanksgiving weekend
 
Usually 45 minutes to an hour. This year I was able to draw a permit for a State Park, close to my house, only a 5 minute drive.
 
Most of the time I'm 30 minutes or less from home or work. I'm very fortunate to have 2000 acres of public across the street from my house and over 100K acres within 30 minutes from my job.
 
The closest spot I hunt is 35 minutes one way. The furthest is 3 hours one way this is the one I hunt most often when I draw a tag for that state.
 
Locally 20 - 90 minutes. Since having kids I tend to stay on the closer half of that range the vast majority, even though almost all my best spots are 45 minutes+. I tend to receive a lot less 'tude when I am home to help with bed time.

Have a couple big chunks of public less than 10 minutes from my house that I virtually never hunt for deer, just too many people. The more windshield time I put in the less pressure I deal with generally speaking.

Camp is exactly two hours, I try to make it out at least one long weekend in bow season and another in rifle.
 
600 acre piece of public 40 minutes one way, 1,300 acre piece of public 30 minutes away, closest part of national forest 1.5 hours away, my hunting cabin in the middle of the national forest 2.5 hours away.
 
I've been fortunate enough to have private land within 15 minutes so I can hunt most evenings. Also have lots of nuisance tags and kill lots of deer. It's nice not to have to compete for property to hunt, such as public.
 
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