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TLow25

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I’m sure I could find a discussion with a quick search but I just got curious if any of you guys go after some whitetail doing 2+ day trips even into some longer excursions. I myself think it would be awesome to go out and stay like guys do out west for elk. I haven’t really put much thought into this before but I’m pretty sure in my area you can’t camp in the public areas but I could be wrong. If any one has done this please share your experience, I’d love to hear em. Thanks all.


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When I was in college I did that all the time. It is fun. I didn’t do it after starting a family, but now that our kids are grown, I am thinking about doing it again. You will be missing a shower or two, so plan scent control accordingly.
 
some of the national forest will allow you to disperse camp and hunt. google "dispersed camping near me". you can set up a "base camp" and radiate out and hunt from there. its a lotta work if you get one down but a blast. gotta carry everything in and even more out. i would suggest having a buddy along jic

do you backpack camp now? you got all the stuff? theres a lotta stuff
 
I sometimes stealth camp. The no camping regs are pretty much made to deter kids that rage around bonfires and leave their beer trash everywhere. Just sleeping in the back I haven't ever been bothered. You either tuck into somewhere nobody is going to go to, or you park in some obvious place it wouldn't be weird to see a car parked. In between is the no fly zone. Move around, don't stay in the same place multiple nights. I wouldn't recommend boozing if you're stealth camping, if you're asked by the law to move you're gonna be up pickle crick.

That said I usually just get a campsite at a state park or something nearby. The states I go to are pretty cheap, and it's nice to have the amenities. And sometimes I need a few mountain pops to get to sleep in the back of a truck lol.

These days most of my trips are 2-2.5 days max just due to family and job logistics. If I was going a week, I would take my mongo tent and set up a legit camp for sure. Used to do that, ah miss those days a bit. Spike camping and bivying, been there done that, got the tshirt, and decided it's for the birds. When I've done that it tends to turn more into a camping trip with some hunting. Bad food, bad sleep, body takes a beating. Just a pain in the butt.

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elk yinzer said:
I sometimes stealth camp. The no camping regs are pretty much made to deter kids that rage around bonfires and leave their beer trash everywhere. Just sleeping in the back I haven't ever been bothered. You either tuck into somewhere nobody is going to go to, or you park in some obvious place it wouldn't be weird to see a car parked. In between is the no fly zone. Move around, don't stay in the same place multiple nights. I wouldn't recommend boozing if you're stealth camping, if you're asked by the law to move you're gonna be up pickle crick.

That said I usually just get a campsite at a state park or something nearby. The states I go to are pretty cheap, and it's nice to have the amenities. And sometimes I need a few mountain pops to get to sleep in the back of a truck lol.
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state park camping certainly has its advantages (amenities) and i use them a lot, but there's no bugger pickers screaming at the site next to you when you are a couplea miles back. :tired:
 
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state park camping certainly has its advantages (amenities) and i use them a lot, but there's no bugger pickers screaming at the site next to you when you are a couplea miles back. :tired:
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Or people riding around on golf carts playing music half the night… Had that happen a few times last season.


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id double check the public land camping rule in your area....not all allow camping but some do and they limit it to primitive sites. I do this almost every year and stay 3-4 days on a WMA. do it during the week and you'll have it all to yourself. (i camped out first week of archery last year and didnt see a single person) nothing beats being camped out with your buddies drinking beer around a camp fire.
 
All the places I hunt are day access only, and dnr visits the parking areas occasionally, so it's not worth it to me to break the rules. Have been thinking about heading to a different part of the state that allows it, but haven't yet
 
Until I moved to North LA, all my life we would drive 3+ hrs to hunt in N.LA and once I became a young adult I’d spend the entire month of October at the camp in Tensas, overnights were common. Now I can hunt off the front porch and my travel to hunt public is only 15-20 min now.
 
A group I hunt with has done this for the past 7 years and I’ve gone the past 2. Usually we get up there either Wednesday or Thursday and stay through Sunday. Early November here in Pa so temps are usually cooler and it’s a matter of having the right gear. We pack in and then set up a base camp and hunt from there. Most guys stay within a mile of camp, but I am typically 2-3 miles from camp depending on where I want to be. We all have the necessary equipment and packs in order to make this type of trip a success and it’s become my preferred way of hunting. Being successful on the hunt is a bonus but the entire trip is more about the experience and just being able to get away from everything and recharge.

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I prefer to go home either with a deer in my truck by lunch time or go home empty handed and fill a doe tag at home...

Either way I don't get wanting to leave your family for days to hunt whitetail? I hunt mornings or sometimes evenings. It takes me 20-30 minutes to drive to my spot, 30 to be walked in and up in my tree.

But to each their own. Everyone likes to do stuff differently
 
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