RE: How far is the hike to your stands?
 

The closest spot is less than 75 yards from my bedroom. The furthest ones are about 1/2 mile or so from where I park my truck.

RE: How far is the hike to your stands?
 

I have 1 stand that is a mile back in the woods and with stands back packs and all the goodys its a hike, but the rewards are worth it!!!! Walt

RE: How far is the hike to your stands?
 

My shortest "hike" is about 15 minutes in, I have a couple of spots that take at leat 45 minutes of hard walking from the truck, only 1 or 2 that take a true hour. The "hour" ones really hurt when draggin a deer out as you can bank on 2 1/2 hours of dragging. Funny how it sounds worse than doing it though, as I never seem to mind dragging them out!

RE: How far is the hike to your stands?
 

Well I have several stands. My furtherest one is about a 600 yard walk from my truck and my closest is about a 100 yard walk

RE: How far is the hike to your stands?
 

well from the ranch its only about 1 minute to the hunting grounds and then the pic will show you my hikes to all of our stands. Yellow dots are bow stands and blue are rifle stands.

RE: How far is the hike to your stands?
 

At home......about 1/4 mile at the most.

At the other spots.......less.

It's wher ethe deer are on my tracts......so I'm lucky.

jeff

RE: How far is the hike to your stands?
 

Anywhere form 200 yds to 1 1/2 miles.

RE: How far is the hike to your stands?
 

Anywhere from off the back porch to 2 miles....

RE: How far is the hike to your stands?
 

about a 15 minute walk

RE: How far is the hike to your stands?
 

I hunt almost exclusively on public land. I used to always go in as far as possible to get away from the people, a lot of time that meant walking 1-2 miles. That's gets old when you hunt every day and especially when you kill and have to drag a deer out for 2 miles. So I spend one night studying aerial photos and topos trying to find something everyone missed. I found a spot on the map that was only 200 yards from the parking area that everyone walked right by but offered good cover and easy access to food sources. I decided to give it a try and it has been the best spot I hunted on that public tract. I ended up taking 4 deer last year in this spot and the best part is the only other hunters I saw were ones I brought with me. The morale of the story is, you don't always have to hunt harder than everyone else, sometimes its better to just hunt smarter than everyone else.