I REALLY envy those who hunt out the back door. I drive 100 miles door to door to hunt. I usually make a 1 or 2 night trip (or more) weekly since we have a season that starts in mid Sept. and goes until Jan 1. Sometimes I will even do an afternoon hunt if it's during the rut.

How far do you have to travel?

Sometimes 2 miles, sometimes 2000 miles

Deer 45min. Could be less if I wanted. Until the area built up, I could walk out and hunt. Still lots of good bow hunting close.

Grouse these days is hours.

137 miles. Been doing it since I was a kid, could do it in my sleep.

From walking out my door to 2 miles max at home. About 30 miles or so to our lease.

50 miles one way.

Walk out the door for shotgun, bow or muzzleloader. Minimum of 10 miles for centerfire rifle.

55 miles one way.

300 miles each way

Yesterday morning out the back door with youngest son bow hunting ,in the evening couple miles bow hunt .this morning 3 miles teal .This evening have not decided yet.I am lucky.

When I hunt near home, 14 miles each way. When I go to our Oct and November deer hunts, it is 250 miles each way.

192 miles one way. Making a day trip tomorrow for some scouting. I've hunted the same chunk of the Huron National Forest for the last 27 years, and have often made the 384 mile round trip in the same day for scouting and setting stands.

Depends on where I go. But not too many places I hunt are closer than 100 miles.

If I go way north it's 350 miles one way or so. I don't mind driving... I have a 2014 truck with 73,000 miles on it.

190 miles (one way) to "base camp".

For deer I travel another 5-10 miles up canyon roads and back each day.

For elk I travel another 10-40 miles and back each day.

Step out the back door or maybe 2,400 miles to Alaska.

18 miles one way, takes me about 25 minutes.

Hunting out of your back door does have some disadvantages. I had been walking/stalking for about 30 mins out my backyard, when I hear what sounds like a herd heading my way. I know exactly what it was, my wife had let the labs out of the house without their wireless collars and they tracked me down. It was too damn hot anyway, so we stopped by the little pond on the way back and we worked on their retrieve.

2 1/2 - 3 miles

59 miles one way for Mule Deer, Whitetail, Turkeys,and Sharptails. Sometimes there are Elk.

50 miles one way and 125 one way depending on what part of Virginia I decide to hunt on a giving day

Either out the back door on my land, or 80 miles to the father inlaw's, or 180 miles to north east MO

About 10 or 15 miles. It's an hour from the time I walk out the door to when I'm sitting in the stand hunting. It takes me about 1/2 hour to drive there and get through the gate and across the field where I park. Then another 1/2 hour to get dressed, get my schit together and walk the rest of the way across the field, over a fence and through the woods and get up in the stand.

I can step out the front door and point to the spot on the mountainside across the road where I killed my buck last season. I can step out the back door and point to the spot where I killed my buck the season before that.

About 50 steps for deer and hogs. Then, 24 hours to the UP of Michigan for deer as well!

10 miles, 25 miles, and 100 miles for my Missouri hunting.

Here in TN about 35miles one way to one spot and about 70 miles one way to the other.

I live in Kentucky, but I hunt in Missouri. It's 480 miles to the family farm.

Depends on the tag I draw, could be 5 miles or 200 miles! For deer, elk, bear or cougar! Ducks about a mile, grouse 15 miles. I can hunt a 360 around my home within 5 miles. And I live in town. It a small town!!!!

Depends on the tag I draw, could be 5 miles or 200 miles! For deer, elk, bear or cougar! Ducks about a mile, grouse 15 miles. I can hunt a 360 around my home within 5 miles. And I live in town. It a small town!!!!

57 miles one way to my farm

A. No driving when I hunt on my place.

B. It's 3 miles to my family place where I'm the only one who hunts there.
So very nice ! !

In yrs past I've had to drive 40--60 mi. where I hunted regularly. And there have been opportunities to hunt and drive much farther.

Closer is better.


Jerry

Patio if I just want some meat. Have another spot 50 miles away that is much better for actual hunting.

We travel exactly 61 miles door-to-door. It takes exactly 90 minutes. A third of it is driving through downtown Cincinnati. A third of it is on divided highway. The remaining third is on winding 2-laners.

Last weekend marked the 15th anniversary of closing on our farm.

2 miles to stand in the woods with a weapon
400 miles one way when I'm serious
1200 miles one way when I'm extra serious

i can walk out my door and get a deer or turkey on my property any day of the week but it is not really my style of hunting as i like mountains. my camp is 84 miles. from there i drive 20 minutes for 10's of thousands of acres of public mountain hunting. i have a little honey-hole i hit in mid-late season about 5 min away. anymore though i don't really care if i get anything. i just do it for the tradition and to get my boys out in the woods.

This year? 600 miles one way.

I have killed one from my front steps. Had I wanted to I could have killed one with a hammer from my kitchen window. The last few years I have been killing them out of my neighbor's garage window. Once I get the population under better control I'll go back to hunting at deer camp 65 miles away.

I drive to several spots for deer. Out of the parking lot left is 10 minutes / take a right turn to another spot is 10 minutes. Another spot is 20 minutes and another spot is 45 minutes.

Ken

150 miles for rifle. 10-25 miles depending for "metro area" archery does.

Until yesterday, about 1/2 a mile. The farm I have hunted for the past 10 years,got divided up and I am out of a nice place. Looks like about 15 miles and up, now.

I bow hunt 4 mi from my house . That is my closest spot and seems like a good one too. Then , about 10-20 mi. of more public land. Then 243 mi. to my cabin in NW WIs. The best spot is the closest. I see more deer there than anywhere else. It is a spot I never bothered with till I got so disgusted with my other places. Turns out the closest was the best all these years. All my hunting is public land.

I have shot one out the window of my house. Don't tell my wife.

Usually I just walk across the road in front of my house.

On rare occasions I might drive 3-4 miles


Mike

White tail 0 - 120 miles

Mule deer 675 miles or 1125 miles

For deer...I can hunt a 1/2 mile from the house, but usually I hunt about 25miles from home...

And my yearly pilgrimage to Missouri

And looks like I am going to hunt in Tx this year, as well..

Mostly 100 miles (2 hrs) which is a lot better than the 235 miles it used to be. I've been hunting a local gamelands for the late muzzleloader season, that's 5-10 depending on which parking lot I use.

Dale

Drive 5 miles to the airport.



Then fly 25700 to Kodiak!

Doh! 2,750. It just seemed farther.

hunting right now In CA zone X12 390 miles one way. If I do not score this week I will be back October 1st so two trips or around 1600 miles...old Dakota 4x4 will hit 300k by the time I get home next Friday.

I did not draw a tag but am invited to tag along with my hunting buds to Colorado elk then on to Kansas for whitetail then return to California. Years I do not get a tag I go for free as long as I take turns driving.

Whitetail-15 miles one way.
Antelope-870 miles one way.

4 hours

I live in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. If you can get permission around here, the huntings good, but permission is tough to come by. I did snag a spot near here for crossbow hunting and turkey hunting. 15 minute ride.

My gun hunting in Mn. is done north of the cities, north of Brainerd and it's about a 3 hour ride in a straight shot. I can leave here at 3 a.m. and be on stand by first light. Most times I do an overnight stay.

I own a deer camp in Pa., and we literally hunt right out the door. We have a gun port cut in the back wall of the cabin, because the deer cross between the cabin and the outhouse. There's probably been over 25 deer shot within sight of the cabin.

Trying a new area near Alexandria this fall too, and that is 2 1/2 hours from here.

I basically have four different hunting areas here in western Pa for hunting whitetails.

A neighbor's farm about 2 minutes from home. (200 acres)

Another is my step daughter's property. 100 acres 15 minutes from me.

My favorite, a 120 acre farm about 45 minutes from here and some really nice whitetail bucks.

Lastly, is 1.5 hours northeast of me near the Allegheny National Forest. We have ten of thousands of public land hunting up there, but the PA Game Commission has decimated the deer population by overselling doe licenses, but it has been getting better the past couple of years.

donsm70

20 minutes

Our deer camp is 6 1/2 miles from my house. For some reason I feel compelled to take enough gear for 6 1/2 weeks!

650 miles to my favorite area in Alabama. Don't hunt much in Missouri.

You envy me.

Out the door, get on my 4 wheeler and in 5 mins I'm on my stand. :>)

My two regular local places for whitetail are 18 miles and 43 miles (one way). My two regular places for Spring turkey are 12 miles and 18 miles (one way). Of course when I hunt waterfowl I go to Arkansas or Maryland - much further distance!

I was going 355 miles one way - part of the reason I opted out and am spending 10 days in ND & MT this year instead!

I can hunt out MY back door. My wife and I travel, by choice, to Quebec Canada each year to hunt deer on Anticosti Island. 635 miles, one way.

My camp and hunting property is 20 minutes from my house. That actually factored in when I decided what side of the parish (county) to buy my home in. My other main option would have been more like 50 minutes away from the camp. No thanks.....

Chicago suburbs to Barry County, MI...about 180 miles one way. Been doing it for almost a decade now and it sucks.

My house was originally a deer camp and as far as I'm concerned it still is. Some dumbshyt on here {who shall remain nameless for now} actually accused me recently of not being a "serious" hunter because I don't travel out of state to hunt. Well, I have zero need to travel anywhere to hunt and that was by design and by choice. I wonder if that clueless azzhole lives at deer camp year round like I do ? Somehow, I have my doubts.

Drive? No thanks!! Walk from coffee pot to front porch, darn tough but somebody has to do it !!!!!

About 20 minutes.

Until a couple of years ago those of working on base could bring our rifles on base as long as they were in a locked case, inside a locked vehicle. At that time I could be at our hunting club in about five minutes.

Elk hunting in southwest Colorado is about 1300 miles one way.

Once a year 710 miles to the airport then 45 minutes. Other that that 15 min to the state forest.

Varies a lot depending on which tag I draw.

This year will be shortest, I've got a "this unit only" tag for the unit I live in. I can be hunting in about 15 minutes or I can drive around the outside (no road across) to the far side which takes about 2-1/2 hours each way.

Most of my other spots are 1.5 to 5 hours each way. It's not NECESSARY to go that far, it's just what I do for a walk down memory lane.

Growing up, I shot a couple deer out the window at my dad's house. That's convenient, it's "efficient", I don't like it much, that treats it as a task to complete, not a treat to look forward to.

Tom

300 yards behind the house. 15 miles one way to the lease. Ninety miles one way to buddy's farm or 250 miles one way to our cabin in SE Oklahoma.

Perry

A little walk out the back yard and I'm hunting....but only about 75 acres or so...Surrounded by private property.

My family owns 61 acres and we have permission to hunt on a lot of land owned by a mining company. Selkirks land abuts ours.

About a 15 minute drive if I stop for a coffee on the way.

I drive 900 miles. Then I shoot the deer 5 miles out of town.

I'm an out the back door hunter (could probably just slide open the kitchen window). We live on 40 acres and while the hunting isn't great, it is darned convenient and I do manage to get a buck now and then. Being a landowner makes getting an antlerless tag a good bet.

I can sit in my recliner and watch 360 to the south and 1400 to the north or drive 20 mins max in either direction to hunt local.
Pretty lucky as I can hunt however I need to for time constraints.
I hunt in ne MO a couple times a year and its alittle better than 500 miles one way there.
I can't image having to drive an hour + every time I wanted to hunt

Are moose deer? LOL. then its 3500 miles one way as the crow flies...

But I can shoot them out the back door almost every day if I wanted.

We drive 125 miles one way to the lease on weekends.

Ten miles from my home in town to my farm in the country. My great-great grandfather bought the farm on August 8, 1874. I hope to keep it in the family for another generation or two. I also intend to move out there when I retire. The distance then will be around one hundred feet.
That's the distance from the farmhouse to the nearest deer stand.

1-5 miles. Then 2-5 miles walking in here.

45 minutes to 4 hours.

Or 2 hours on a plane.

Or 4-5 hours on planes.

It depends.

I could hunt an hour from home and hunt on public land for the next 20 years and not see shootable game.

Or I could drive 14 hours, pay $1500, and shoot a deer in an hour.

And there is everything in between.

We all make that choice of how far are we going to drive and how much money are we going to pay.

Here is your mantra, "Big bucks for big bucks"

I can drive 5 minutes for a small turkey/deer hunting spot my friends own.

Usually drive 20 minutes to a thicket where my bud and I hunt deer.

Used to drive 45 minutes to my fave spot (before it sold).

1.25 hrs to the F&W area for dove and bowhunting deer.

3 hrs, to a super wicked turkey spot.

All of this distance/time.......one way.

Closest I've killed deer from my house was about 200 yards. Farthest was red deer in Patagonia.

For deer, bear, turkey, its a 25 minute drive to the property that we lease.

Usually make at least one to of state trip for deer every year 300 to 800 miles. Same for turkey.

Elk hunt every couple or three years 800-1100 miles

i have killed deer from my shop window in my yard. i live 1 mile from the shenandoah national park and there are no houses between me and the park. lots of deer and bear cross my property. i have one a 60acre farm and a 20acre track that are within 200yds of my house that i walk to. i have a 2500 acre hunt club that is 40miles away and another 1000acres that i hunt a few times a year that is 110 miles away.

Up until this year, I drove 185 miles. The camp owner has mental "issues" so I'll be driving 150 to our new area. I'm starting to hunt in Michigan's UP this year and that is about 150 as well

2 miles.....

last year plugged one in the backyard....

which I could do annually...

but that sorta takes the fun out of it...

got that one near the last days of the season...

was too busy working and not able to get out much last year, so I had to compromise.

About 50 minutes from the house to some family land. Next year I'll be looking for a club to join, wouldn't mind driving more for the right place.

I forgot to mention, the drive door to door from Minneapolis to our camp in central Pa. is 17 hours depending on how and when you hit Chicago.

Sakoluvr: The last three years I have been Hunting Whitetailed Deer very near to my home (3 miles!) here in SW Montana.
I killed a 10 point in 2,013, a 10 point in 2,014 and last year (2,015) I finally killed a dandy "bucket list" 12 point (6x6!) Whitetail.
I have been a Mule Deer Hunter all my life though and often (every year!) drove 950 to 1,250 miles to Hunt them - this was when I lived in the Puget Sound country and drove to Utah, Wyoming, southeast Idaho and southeast Montana to Hunt.
Once the Mule Deer populations get back to "Huntable numbers" (IMO!) over in eastern Montana I will return to my normal haunts for them and drive the now 450 to 550 miles to do so.
I enjoy driving - other than the expense.
Good luck to everyone this season.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I keep a rifle in the corner of my bathroom, sit on the commode, raise the window and stick the rifle out and whack 'em!!

60 miles from my house to the ranch in Stephens County TX. If i could only convince the landowner behind me who has about 500 acres I could hunt from the back porch!

I used to drive over 200 miles for the last 30 years.
Now I have my own place and walk to my stand.
Maybe 5 minutes.

whelennut

Just got back and put 640 miles on the truck.

147 miles > been doing this run for over 30 years.....

Where we do most of our hunting is 220 miles, door to door.

Like most, I could probably do all the hunting I needed within 10 miles of my door. But, it's too fuggin boring. I enjoy getting away and hunting interesting places with interesting people...

The last few years this has been my route each year for Deer:

Western Indiana - 188 Miles
Northern Nebraska - 725 Miles
Southern Illinois - 356 Miles

I take off work in early November for a month and hit it. I am fortunate to be able to do this and really enjoy it.

This year it was 8 minutes but I hunt most of the Bear River mountains so it can be somewhat farther than that.

Here's a pic from where this years buck fell.

I can't hunt out the back door because the deer don't come in until December.

I drive about 160 miles to the northwoods for camp. 3.5 hours. My stand from camp is gps'ed at 1100 yards. We usually go up twice, once for opening week and right after Thanksgiving dinner for the weekend. If I muzzleload, that will be in mid-Dec traveling 4 hours west to farm country.

700 miles one way, this will be my 18th year there.

I leave the truck in the driveway and walk along my hunting isa hour or less walk from the back door only time I get the truck is if I kill across the road driveway is uphill

I love hunting and being outdoors but I'm out there to put food on the table. If I can't find it 100 miles round trip it cheaper to buy it at the grocery.

The first shot would be easy. It's that second shot that I would be most worried about...

The other half has them all named..

I'm in Western MD, my farm is in WV, about 125 miles. I have 2 farms within 15 minutes of my house, but several other people hunt one of them, and they are real Yahoos. The other I feel guilty if I don't have time to help out around the farm, so I usually pass. Two years ago I put in about 10 days on fencing and got a nice 125 pound 8 pointer. A lot of work for one dear.

In my yard or get the golf cart and drive 1/2 mile..

100 yards to great deer hunting.

The last hog I killed was out of a bedroom window in my house. The last deer was about 300 yards out the back door.

I hunt here at the house, or at another property I own about a mile down the road. If time permits I hunt with a friend about 150 miles away or on some other property I have a little over 200 miles from home.

About 250 yards. Drove the 4 wheeler or the tractor.

558 miles one way...

To camp at our new area is 280 miles, 5.5 hours each way. Won't even count the miles out of camp to areas we hunt. We did have to make two gas runs in 13 days this last time.

40 min to one farm, 95 min to the other, 6 hours to GA lease.

30 miles from here in PA. 1,258 miles to my place in northern Kansas

240 miles one way

Between 22 - 39 miles one way depending on which spot.

5 minutes or an hour.

Thus years deer was about 30minutes from my house

About an hour and a half to Boarcamp, 1000 miles or so to deer camp.

100 miles to one area 70 to another, both take 2 hours in good weather.

Am driving a total of 810 miles one way next Thursday to deer hunt with Dad. Changed the oil in the crankcase and transmission the last 2 nights, did the front brakes and rotated tires a few weeks before.

Fired 3 rounds each of .270, 7mm Rem Mag 2 weeks ago, both good to go. (M99 Savage was keyholing with 115gr .250 Savage, irked, figured wrong twist rate out from posts on this forum, bummed, wanted to shoot that, need to load some 87gr for it) Also taking my .460 Rowland (5" XD) I feel really good with it at 100.

About 1-1/2 hours for me which is 75 miles one way. Trouble is there is no good way to get there any faster. Been doing this a looong time.

4 1/2 hours one way to my farm on the Florida-Georgia border.

23 hours one way to my bud's place in Kansas.

4 hours from house to lease. That's about as far as I can take.

Usually 15-40 minutes, but we go on adventures a couple of hours. Tons of open State and Federal land here.

I can walk out my front door to hunt both whitetail and mule deer, but usually drive somewhere within a half hour radius. I have a bush camp / trapline that is 320 km away that is mainly for hunting elk and moose and bear but we hunt WT deer there too. A favourite ranch that we hunt in the SW of our province is a five hour drive away has good numbers of both species.

Normally 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hrs.

-Ken

I walk about seven minutes to get to my favorite stand.

I drive 900 miles to get where I am going to hunt,
Then I drive to public land every day for long range target practice for a week.. 100 miles
Then I drive between 1 and 50 miles out of town and shoot deer.
Then I drive 900 miles home.
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1950 miles round trip... but the odometer says 2500 miles each time.