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I've often seen threads on favorite animals to hunt but not on those the most available to us.

We are such a geographically diverse group that I thought that it would be interesting to see what big game animals are the most readily available to each of us within a reasonable distance from where we live. It doesn't matter if it is through a draw, through an outfitter, on private land, a hunting lease, or whatever else. As long as there is an open hunting season and a possibility exists.

To call it home territory let us say within 200 miles since 4 hours of driving to hunt is really not much to many of us. We can list the top three animals if there are three within that range.

For instance in order of availability or closeness my 3 are:

1) Moose
2) Black bears
3) Caribou

1. Whitetail
2. Black bear
3. Hogs
 
I'm hoping that time, my wallet, woodsmanship, luck, and the good Lord will allow me an opportunity at all 3 this year.

Within 2 hours drive:
Whitetail Deer, Mule Deer, Pronghorn, Elk, Black Bear, Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Lion, Turkey

Antelope, Mule deer, Whitetails, Elk, Bear, Mountain Lion, Moose, Sheep (fat chance of drawing). I will be hunting antelope, deer and elk this fall, with a turkey thrown in for good measure.

Whitetails,mule deer,elk,antelope,black bears,mountain lion and wolf.If you could draw a tag,moose,bighorn sheep and mountain goat.All,within a few minutes drive.

Whitetails, Antelope, Mule Deer, Mountain Lion, Bighorn Sheep, Elk, Turkey and hopefully Mountain Goat again someday if they reopen the season.

deer , pigs, bear, turkeys and gators. Cost 19 bucks to hunt nearly a million acres in Ga. Plus your hunting tags. Maybe 55 bucks total.Another 50 gets you 250,000 more on Fort stewart for pigs Turkeys and deer.RC

From where I live:

1) Whitetail Deer
2) Feral Hogs

Moose
Grizz
Black Bears
Grouse/Hare/Ptarmigan/Squirrel
Wolf
Coyote
All of the above have been seen in our front yard from time to time.

Caribou  (Have to travel 60 miles to get to the Caribou.)
Due to my age, there is no charge for a combination hunting/trapping/fishing license.
Best Wishes

mule deer, elk, antelope, black bear, mtn lion, moose, bighorn, desert bighorn, mountain goat. The last 4 are very hard to draw tags.

1. Blacktail Deer
2. Elk
3. Black Bear
4. Coyote
5. Cougar(The cat, not 40+ good looking women)
6. Mule Deer
7. Whitetail Deer
8. Turkey
9. Bighorn Sheep
10. Mountain Goat
11. Moose

Some of these may not fall in the 200 mile range but it is what my state has to offer.  Some you will likely never get to hunt because of the limited tags drawn each year.  To bad we can only take one deer per year unless drawing a second tag, a blacktail, mule deer, and a whitetail would be quite the season to take all three in one state.

For me its 1. Whitetail 2. MuleDeer 3. Antelope. Can't wait for fall!

gangters
elk
antelope
in order of proximity

Blacktail Deer
Mule Deer
Whitetail Deer
Rocky Mtn Elk
Roosevelt Elk
California Bighorn Sheep (tough draw)
Pronghorn Antelope (tough draw)
Mountain Goat  (tough draw)
Black Bear
Mountain Lion
Bobcat
Coyote
Rio Grande Turkey
Merriam Turkey

Shiras Moose and Grey Wolves have taken up residence, but no tags as of yet!

I have Blacktail Deer in my yard, Eastern Wild Turkeys, Black Bear, Roosevelt Elk, Cougar, (Bobcat, coyote,racoons, rabbit, grouse) within 5 miles.
If I drive 100 Miles I have Rocky Mountain Elk, Mule Deer,Merriam Turkeys, Bighorn (tough draw) and Goat (tough draw)
another 100, and there is Whitetail Deer, Rio Grande Turkeys and Shiras Moose (really tough draw)

elk
blk tail deer
mule deer
black bear
BIGFOOT   :scared:

Within a couple hours:
Goats
Pigs (in pockets)
Deer (in pockets)
Bunnies (not really big game, but lots of them!)

If you drive a little further:
Brumbies (wild horses)
Camels
Dingos and wild dogs

All feral, on private land only, no license, tags, or bag limit.

In my area I have:

(1) Black Bear
(2) White Tail Deer
(3) Wild Hog - in some areas that isn't far from me
(4) Turkey - In Virginia they are conciddered big game
(5) Elk - If I travel a little further south west

Michigan big game:

White-tailed deer
Black bear (lottery)
Elk (lottery)

In KY, as far as BIG game, the top three are:

1)Whitetail
2)Black Bear
3)Elk

Only other available big game would be wild hog, although I'm not sure it's considered big game in KY. The black bear was just recently made fair game by the KDFWR. Coyote, bobcat, turkey etc. are not considered big game in KY.

Here in Norway we have no animals to hunt with a bow  :banghead:  

Except for pike    

The nearest possible hunt is Denmark and roedeer.

Margly

Whitetails (no limit in parts of state) and small game.
If travel out of state within 200 miles, add black bear and moose. (no idea on draw, over the counter, etc. )

I have, in no particular order, whitetail deer, mule deer, elk, mountain lion, and buffalo (one per lifetime, and a very, very hard draw).

Within 4hrs/200mi hmmm...

Whitetails- here

Eastern Wild Turkey- here, is considered big game in NC

Black Bear- although one here or there locally, within an hour and a half be in reliable black bear country, and 4 hours the other direction deffinately be in black bear county (east nc)

Feral hogs- various pockets from half an hour out to how ever far you want to go

Alligators- within the 4hr range, in SC, draw hunt, about a 1 in 4 odds of drawing last year from what I read.

Mule deer, Whitetails, Elk, Bear, Mountain Lion, Moose, Wolves, Coyotes, Squirrels, Gophers, Grouse, Ducks, Goose, Fox, Bobcat etc, etc....

Several hours away - Antelope

Whitetail
Black bear
Hogs

Moose,Mule deer,Whitetail deer,Black bear. All over the counter tags and right in the back yard. A couple hours drive gets you to Elk,Mountain goat, Cariboo.Rabbits and several kinds of grouse everywhere. Bob

Native hunt able:

Whitetail
Mule deer
Cougar
Elk (small part of the state)
Coyote
Bobcat
Chupacabra or a coyote with mange from what I have seen

Native non hunt able:
Bear they are making a come back, and somebody maybe hunt able again.

Non Native:
Feral Hogs
Axis deer
Red Stag
Ram
Addax
Bison
Elk on a hunting ranch
Pretty much if you are willing to pay for it you can find it in Texas.

Nothing but whitetail deer and a few turkeys here. How come everyone is trying to come to Iowa to hunt? Oh yeah, the deer get big.

200 miles is a bit of a big range . . . within the 200 miles I have moose, elk, bear, whitetails, sika deer, and maybe even some hogs.  But how many of those species have I hunted?-1(whitetails)

Not to mention that 200 miles puts me within range of some of the biggest deer in the US, but somehow I am still stuck hunting the little squirts in MD, lol

They should sell a Nation wide hunting lisence!

1. Blacktail Deer
2. Elk
3. Black Bear
4. Coyote
5. Cougar(The cat, not 40+ good looking women)
6. Mule Deer
7. Whitetail Deer
8. Turkey
9. Bighorn Sheep
10. Mountain Goat
11. Moose


Above list copied from Compoundless in Concrete.  Washington State is a hunters paradise.

Oh and for the single guys we have lots of smoking hot 40+ Cougars to hunt in the evenings when your done chasing the real ones in the woods.  A hunter paradise for sure!

I suppose if you say non-huntable...we have elk within 140miles.

I have MOOSE and DEER about 10 minutes from my
house and BEAR at about 30 minutes.

MAY THE SPIRIT OF FRED BEAR GUIDE OUR ARROWS.

Within 15 mins. of my home I can shoot whitetails, turkeys, moose, bear and coyotes.  Fox are quite common but I rarely shoot at them unless they are causing problems around the house....i.e., chicken killers.

Within a 4 hour drive down in sunny Southern California, we've got:

Mule Deer
Blacktail Deer
Black Bear
Wild Pig
Tule Elk (very tough draw)
Desert Bighorn Sheep (Near impossible draw)

-Mack

In State Speices
Mule Deer
Rocky Mountain Elk
Mt. Goat
Desert Bighorn
Rocky Mt. Bighorn
Black Bear
Bison
Shiras Moose
Cougar
Pronghorn

It would be tough to draw all these tags in a lifetime,but I'm trying!

Pretty much everything Twitch just listed. I've only ever hunted Mulies though. Would love to try a moose hunt one day though! But it seems nearly impossible draw.

Deer, elk, bear, mountain lion, pronghorn, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, moose, coyote, turkey.

I came home after being gone for a month plus; and there were deer using my cabin as a back stop - one muledeer was bedded under my bedroom window.
I have had elk do that and whitetails; and even six bighorn sheep.
The animals I can take that I have seen on my property ( 3.5 acres):
black bear
muledeer
Whitetail deer
Elk
Antelope
wolf
coyote
Bobcat
cottontails
Hungarian partridge and chuckar partridge.
200 miles? wow.. no idea. I suppose turkeys are about the only thing I would have to go that far for
Within 10 miles of my cabin I have taken elk;muledeer;whitetail;black bear.
 I have seen within 10 miles - antelope; mt goats; Moose;mt lion; and a this year a wolverine.

QuoteOriginally posted by Ragnarok Forge:
1. Blacktail Deer
2. Elk
3. Black Bear
4. Coyote
5. Cougar(The cat, not 40+ good looking women)
6. Mule Deer
7. Whitetail Deer
8. Turkey
9. Bighorn Sheep
10. Mountain Goat
11. Moose


Above list copied from Compoundless in Concrete.  Washington State is a hunters paradise.

Oh and for the single guys we have lots of smoking hot 40+ Cougars to hunt in the evenings when your done chasing the real ones in the woods.  A hunter paradise for sure!

Washington is a bowhunters dream, I just wish they would allow people to take more than one deer.  Maybe a tag for both the western and eastern sides. Hmmmmmm!

QuoteOriginally posted by Tree Killer:
Blacktail Deer
Mule Deer
Whitetail Deer
Rocky Mtn Elk
Roosevelt Elk
California Bighorn Sheep (tough draw)
Pronghorn Antelope (tough draw)
Mountain Goat  (tough draw)
Black Bear
Mountain Lion
Bobcat
Coyote
Rio Grande Turkey
Merriam Turkey

Shiras Moose and Grey Wolves have taken up residence, but no tags as of yet!

2 types of Elk and Turkey, you must just be living right!

QuoteOriginally posted by COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE:
I just wish they would allow people to take more than one deer.  Maybe a tag for both the western and eastern sides. Hmmmmmm!

Think of all the folks that don't get to hunt if they don't win a lottery, if you win a raffle you can get multiple deer or elk or moose (ok you have to win a raffle to get just one moose).  I would like them to stop making us pick West side or East side, so we can go anywhere and get what we want.

Within a HALF mile:  brown bear, black bear, dall sheep, mtn goat, wolf, moose, and probably wolverine.

We've had Brown bear and moose IN the yard in the last couple weeks.

That said you can only reasonable expect to hunt and actually kill a black bear around here due to difficult tag draws or low legal animal numbers.

On my ranch:
Deer
Hogs
Cougar
Coyotes/Fox
Coons/squirrels/rabits

whitail
black bear
elk(if drawn)

White-tail is number one here. Wild turkey is number two.  A restored elk herd of 10,000+ animals is a choice for 800 lucky lottery winners this year.  A few people will hunt black bear in a couple of counties. Deer and turkey are the bread and butter of most of us here in KY.

Wyoming has a large variety of big game but I only hunt deer & elk with a bow. I don't get excited about pronghorn even though they are just about everywhere you look. There are lots of moose and some sheep in the Snowys and the Laramie range but they are a draw that is not easy to obtain.
    My only criticism of WY hunting is that the bow season is too short, basically the month of September, and all the seasons happen at about the same time.  I envy those who live where the deer season is 3-5 months long and many of us here would like to see a late bow season in WY.

1. Whitetails
2. Eastern wild turkey
3. Very limited numbers of wild hogs

Those are the only big game animals that we have available anywhere near here.  Hopefully some of those Kentucky Elk will migrate north eventually.  Kind of sucks having very limited species to hunt.  I guess in a way it makes me appreciate it more, because as the one gentleman stated he isn't allowed to bowhunt at all in his country.

Within 30 minute drive:

muleys
pronghorns
javelinas

Within 3 hour drive:  same as above plus

elk
turkeys
black bears
hogs
whitetails

Big game that I have taken within a couple of miles of the house.
Moose
Caribou
Black Bear
Grizzly Bear
Wolf
With in a couple of hours drive you can hunt
Dall Sheep
Mountain Goat
Black tail Deer

Dang, sounds like Alaska hunting is more like self-defense!

Whitetails
Black Bear
Moose (very limited draw)
Turkey

Whitetails, bear and moose. We also have turkeys.  :thumbsup:

WhiteTail
Turkey
Wild Hogs

and Democrats   :laughing:   (kidding, kidding)

1. Mule deer
2. Elk (Draw)
3. Coues WT deer
4. Black Bear
5. Mt Lion
6. Javelina(Draw)
7. Desert Bighorn Sheep(Draw)
8. Antelope(Draw)
9. Turkey(Draw)

Lots of fun nearby if the draw odds can be beat.

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Originally posted by trcytylr:
WhiteTail
Turkey
Wild Hogs

and Democrats    :smileystooges: