Growing up I'd hunt right from the house. Now I live about an hours drive from the same area and prefer to drive back rather then hunt private land around town. Every year I go a few places that might be 4-6 hours drive just to see something new.

About an 1 1/2 to get to my public hunting spot and I feel lucky to have it living on long island.

About a 45 min drive to public land.

We drive about 4 hours and haul horses. When we get to our general area we pack in about 7 miles using the horses and then hunt on foot about a 3 mile radius from camp. Sometimes we will move the camp after a few days to another drainage and set up again. We do use the horses to pack out our game. We will usually archery elk hunt this way for 7-10 days. I also have a spot about 7 miles from home where I take my boat across the river and hunt a rocky canyon for deer. This year I had a mountain lion in there that kept things pretty stirred up. The lion was in season and I would have been glad to put an arrow in him, but never got a shot. Maybe next year.

Usually a 30 minute drive and a hour walk in, LOL!  

From 1 to 80 miles and everywhere in between.

I have about 100 acres to hunt a mile from home and also a member of a hunt club that is about 75 miles away.  But there is a cabin with a wood stove, running water and a satellite dish!

30 acres private- 20 miles
140 acres private- 40 miles
several public lands within 2 hours or so but dont hunt them much

For our Idaho elk hunt I drive 26 hours.

Mike

I walk to my hunting areas. Got about a 200 acre soybean or corn field 50yds behind me that boarders Shawnee National Forest, Il. and probably 800 acres or more of private land across the road I can hunt any way I want. It's mostly pasture with strips of woods through out and  boarders Shawnee also. I haven't hunted it yet, but did look it over last summer and it's loaded with turkey and I'm going to hunt it spring gobbler season. Lots of turkey and deer behind me also.

In the 4yrs I've hunted this area I've never seen another hunter during archery season and only once saw another hunter during gun season.

Whitetails and turkeys are about a 5 minute drive. To where I can hunt elk, about 30 minutes, but the elk always seem to know I'm coming, so they leave the country.  

A lot of lucky guys here...  I have to travel to hunt...  No bowhunting as yet in Norway, my last trip was over 24 hours to South africa....

I can walk out my door and hunt within 50 yards, but I also drive to Idaho, Il, and Canada to hunt.

I drive about 45 min to 150 acres where a trapper friend lets me hunt on his property.  

Public land is within 45 minutes the other way, but I've never tried hunting there... too many horror stories... but I don't know if they're true!

I can start hunting in my backyard and for miles in surrounding farm and ranch country! But have been known to drive a 1000 miles-20+ hours for a good hog hunting fix !!! LOL

QuoteOriginally posted by Zradix:
drive about 35-40mins.
Walk another 15mins

I live pretty close to you that is a sweet set up!

A lot of lucky people here!

I have 2 choices.
1) Drive 20 to 25 minutes to hunt state land surrounded by suburbs that has as many hunters as deer.
2) Drive 80 minutes 65 miles to hunt a lease, and walk a half a mile.

#2 is what I do most for safety for me and my kid when he goes with me.

When I'm hunting here in Iowa I drive about 15 miles.  When I'm hunting at our property in Wisconsin I can be in the woods in 10 yds.  I'm really spoiled by that!

Just a little past the barn.  Maybe 60 yards.  In 2005 I had knee surgery just before bow season and for the first time in 15 years I put up a treestand.  Thought ahead and put it up a month before the surgery.  I arrowed a deer 85 yards from my back door.

Usually I walk in a quarter mile or more.  And more often than not I find tracks just off the mowed spots around the gardens near the house.    :rolleyes:  

Two weeks ago there were deer tracks going across the foot bridge between our house and barn.  Walked within 12 feet of our bedroom.  God, I love whitetail.

32 ft long and 4 ft wide over an 8 ft drop into a creek.  I could not believe a deer would cross it.
 

Hunting areas are between a 10 minute drive to a 40 minute drive. Both areas are public land, bow only. Season runs from Oct 15 to Dec 31. Walk in is about 20 minutes from the car. Both spots clear out in Nov when gun season opens. Southey zone NY.

.The last 8 years years i've lived ,hunted, fished inAdirondack mnts. of ny. with 1000's of acres of state land in the back yard.