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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.....
Now with even more aplomb
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Chicago suburbs to Barry County, MI...about 180 miles one way. Been doing it for almost a decade now and it sucks.
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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..... 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.
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Drive? No thanks!! Walk from coffee pot to front porch, darn tough but somebody has to do it !!!!!
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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.
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Once a year 710 miles to the airport then 45 minutes. Other that that 15 min to the state forest.
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How far do you have to travel? 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
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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.
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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.
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I drive 900 miles. Then I shoot the deer 5 miles out of town.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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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.
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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
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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.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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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.
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1-5 miles. Then 2-5 miles walking in here.
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45 minutes to 4 hours. Or 2 hours on a plane. Or 4-5 hours on planes. It depends.
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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"
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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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.
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Closest I've killed deer from my house was about 200 yards. Farthest was red deer in Patagonia.
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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
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