Just curious on your average driving distance to the local hotspot? I have public forest 10 miles away, not too productive. Or 200 miles away to fairly large amounts of public forest.
I drive an hour to my hunting lease.
I have a local hot spot 5 miles, I have a few spots a couple of counties away (130 mi), a spot about 15 miles
I'm 5 minutes or so from whitetails and turkeys, about a half hour to elk.
If I wanted to hunt mule deer, it would be closer; taken out my kitchen window last summer.
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My spot is about about seventy miles,so a little over an hour. I'm headed out there right now as a matter of fact!
I hunt all of the mountains around Tucson [Catalinas,Santa Ritas,and Rincons]. Most places are an hour or 2 away.
MAP
I used to hunt a farm 2 hour drive from home, but that's gone now. About the same distance to some public land, but that's being ruined by snow mobilers in the winter.
Otherwise, 22 hours to moose camp and 7 1/2 hours to turkey camp in Southern Ohio.
I've been thinking about buying some property. I recently found a 60 acre piece about 2 hours from home for $129,000. We'll see...
135 miles or roughly 2 hrs. and 15 min. depending on traffic. :campfire:
About an hour for deer and turkeys
Just about an hour.....but there are no HOT spots that close to me. I have public land that is 15 minutes away but there ate very few deer there.
15 minutes to my spot in town this year. The lease I just got off of (was on it for the last 15yrs) was 3hrs 45 minutes from where I live.
Bisch
300 miles or six hours. Have driven it for one day of hunting in the past. In fact, just got back from one day of hunting there. If you aren't out there, you won't kill one.
5-6 hours, takes time to get out of the antibowhunting place called utah!
Three miles behind my house, 7,000 acres of gamelands. Two miles in front of my house, 97,000 acres of state forest. I'm pretty lucky!
Both of my leases are about 10-15 mins from home. I've also got 40 acres to hunt right out of my back yard.
Not typically a jealous type but, Centaur you got me.
I drive 3 miles to a 3,500 acres forest. I can take them from my deck, But there off limits.
110 miles to lease,2 hrs.
I hunt a farm about an hour away and two public areas that are 30min and 90min away. I always see the bigger bucks on public but kill more deer on the farm. I'm getting a start at changing that trend this year...we'll see
60 miles to the camper, 70 to another good spot. I have a spot 20 minutes away but I don't hunt it much as to not wear out my welcome with the landowner who is also a trad bowhunter.
200 yards out my back door.
7.5 hours. We get drawn for certain areas, and one has to drive to get there....
Walk out my back door and in 200 yards I am in whitetail territory. Have to walk three miles to come to the next road & houses. Heaven.
Member of a hunting lease 12 miles from home. Permission to hunt two large farms 8 and 15 miles. Truly blessed!
Private property about 40 minutes, county propery about 5 minutes but one must hunt from an elevated stand.
1hr to my Uncle's farm and 1hr to the wma I hunt
Many of us are most fortunate.
30 min. land I own, or a very large farm 600 acres both 30 min. from home. Good not great hunting both places, but very quiet and peaceful.
It depends...I go where the game is. 95% of my deer hunting is five hours away from my home in western NC, to my lease in middle Tennessee. I am driving to the Florida panhandle next month to hunt hogs, and to the Oregon coast in 2016 to hunt elk. I sure as heck wish the deer herd was better around home. We have lots of bears but still hunting them is illegal. I have a ton of turkeys and bow fishing close to home, but traveling to where game is plentiful has never really bothered me.
Jake
Hundred miles to where I have my tag this year, wouldn't be so bad is there was camping but there isn't so it's either round trip drive for the day or $75 hotel room for the night
From right out my back door to up to a couple hours. I live right in the middle of National Forest and have lots of access.
About 10 miles to my small place in the country.
I drive about an hour and ten minutes to my lease. My favorite spot is on the family farm, 630 miles North of Houston!
15 min to one spot 1/2 hr to my other spot. I'm not sure I would call them Hot Spots. But it's where I go
15 minutes for me.
My land is 115 miles away.
My cousin's land is about 70 miles away.
I have a friend about 12 miles away, but have to wait until rifle season ends before I can hunt his
place, (after today).
I really miss the days of $1.00 a gallon gas!
7 miles to my honey hole. Here in Mass I prefer private over public land. WMA areas are packed with hunters and many are stocked with pheasant which seasons dates coinside with archery. Where are you located? Any farmland? Near the Pike?
My family place is an hour away. My lease is 45 minutes on the other side of that.
We moved here 3 years ago and the county I am now a resident of has not a square inch of public property.
Still been unsuccessful at finding a place here, so will continue to burn up the road as I can.
Hour and a half roughly 90 miles one way every sat. And Sunday I long for a day when I will my own slice of heaven
Moose and black bear are 2 to 5 mile from home, Caribou with in 50 miles if I am lucky enough to draw a permit. Deer I fly to Kodiak Island which is about a 2 hour drive to the airport then an hour flight to Kodiak.
For me it's 1-3hrs drive depending what meat I'm hunting. Plus another 1-4hrs hike in to my hot "spots" wich are a few hectares. Usually never see another person, but when I do, we usually compare notes of the area, wish good luck and hike on.
Moose and black bear are 2 to 5 mile from home, Caribou with in 50 miles if I am lucky enough to draw a permit. Deer I fly to Kodiak Island which is about a 2 hour drive to the airport then an hour flight to Kodiak.
I am 10 minutes from hogs, and 5.5 hours from Heaven, great friends, nice deer, turkeys, and hogs.
Private land next state over, 270 miles one way
Anywhere from 5 to 40 miles. The better place is 40.
Three hours (190 miles) for me.
1 hour
1/4 mile down a farm lane to one. A mile to another.
No driving. Out my back door on our 250 acres, with lots of neighbouring land available.
Never tire of the same place. We work hard to have and keep deer here.
20 miles to a military post,7 miles to our club or 15 yards from my deck...the last one not happening that would be cheating. lol