How far is the hike to your stands?
08-02-2006, 06:02 AM
#13
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 801
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!
08-02-2006, 06:21 AM
#15
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Nekoosa Wi USA
Posts: 6,066
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.
08-02-2006, 09:38 AM
#20
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Hagerstown, MD
Posts: 689
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.