How far do you commute to go hunting?
 

So when you guys wake up in the morning to go hunting, how far is the drive from your home to your final parking area? Do you make the commute alone? If it's a long drive, how do you pass the time?

I have 3 tiers of hunting grounds:

My local areas (30-35 minute drive from home) - hunt these in the evenings after work. Always alone.

My "all day" PAareas (1:00 - 1:10 one-wayfrom home) - I hunt these areas in turkey season and when I have a full half-day to hunt. Usually make these hunts alone, also.

Mynonresident hunts (WV/OH) are between 1:20 and 1:30 away from home, one way. Once I'm tagged out in PA, I start hitting some other states. I know it sounds stupid, but there are days when I drive 3 hours round-trip, just to hunt for 2 hours. 50% of the time, I have a wingman for NR hunting.

To pass all the driving time, I usually call buddies on the cell, if anyone's awake or available. If nobody's around to talk to, I get myself all cranked up on Mountain Dew androck out to mix cd's.

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from my parents where i can spend the night before/after the hunt, 5 to 10 minutes.

From where I work now, 2.5 hours:(

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I sometimes have to walk (GASP!!) .7mi. to get to one of my spots. Most times about .5mi. But....my truck never leaves the driveway.;)

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I can hunt out of my back yard, not the best hunting though! 5 minutes to my main deer hunting woods. 4.5 hour drive to where I bear hunt in Minnesota. 17 hour drive to where i elk hunt in Montana.

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6 miles however that is subject to change next season. For doves I just step outside.

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I drive about an 1.5 hours to the WMA.

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TOO Lucky! Depending on what I'm hunting I'm driving anywhere from 1.5 hrs to 11 hrs. oneway

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Most of the area's I hunt are within 30 minutes or so.There are a couple of spots I like to go that are about 3 hours away - which if I hit those areas I make a weekend out of it...

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i can't hunt local, and i usually do most of my hunting non-resident, so... i drive about 725miles each way to family land in AL, usually about a 15-20 minute drive to the land from where i stay...

edit - i'm hoping to change that this year and hunt some in-law land down in the peoria, IL area this coming year with my son... still about 3hrs away though...

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I hope to change this for the upcoming season so that I'm not away from homequite somuch, but right now my closest place is almost 2 hours from home.

Jawshooter's (Dan) place is roughly 100 miles each way from my house, and my property in PA is about 225 miles each way..........so I put on a LOT of miles each season. When seasons are open in both NY and PA we typically leave just after work on Friday night, head to PA and hunt Saturday morning and evening, then pack up the car and head to his place Saturday night and hunt all day on Sunday.....then head back home and do it all over again the following weekend. We've made 9 of these trips so far this year and I will have 14 of them total by time we are done in PA for the late season. This of course doesn't include all the trips in the offseason for food plots, turkey hunting, general work around camp, etc.......

I did well over 15,000 miles for hunting/foodplots/camp related stuff in 2006 and will probably end up doing more than that this year. [&:]

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mine is about 200yards from the house!!

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12 minutes from my driveway to the parking spot. It was 8 minutes but then I started hunting an archery-only area down the road a ways.

I have a few other hunting areas that I can frequent but, at best, I might hit them 1-2 times a year. They are about 20-25 minutes away.

FWIW, I bought my house because of where I hunt and actually plan to move closer when we get our "final house" in 3 years.;)

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My "local" places range from 10-45 minutes.

My other place is 2 hours...I go there for a weekend or longer.

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closest is around 15 min, farthest is around an hour. my fav is my game club, and it's about a 35 min drive, usually my g/f is with me.

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Anywhere from 0 minutes to 48 hours, including stops, depending on what I am going to hunt.

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My 40 acres is about 1 hour 10 minutes one way. Gas really starts to add up since I go there every week (year round!).

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Too far!

I have a few spots within 7 minutes... some within 25 mins... but most weekends I will head about 5+ hours away in search of better and bigger deer.

And sometimes I will go over 7 hours to go hunting.... it just depends on the year and the season.

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Oh generally around a 10 min drive to the land from my house, 8 mins if im running late[8D]

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Mostly 5 mins away but I have a couple of spots 20 mins away.

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.5mi to 50 miles don't drive the 50 to often

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Currently, I have a couple spots that are 5-15 minutes from home (but 30-45 from work) that I hit in the evenings. I would love to have spots much closer to work. To me that is more important than having them close to home. On occasion if I can get out early, I will drive hour 1:15 after work for a hunt.

My "core" hunting spots are about 40-45 minutes from home. Those get hit on weekends/days offand if I can get out early.

Then I've got some adventure spots. Those range 1:00-1:15 hrs. away. Those get hit when I've used all my regular tags and still want to hunt.

And lastly are the 'headed west' spots. Those are 1:30-2:00 away, and yes I've driven 3-3.5 hrs to hunt for 3-4 hrs.

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45 minutes for most of my deer hunting

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Lots of you guys drive a pretty good distance. Do you fellas haul a camper or get a motel, stay with family, sleep in the truck??

I know if I drive 1.5 hrs each way, and hunt all day - for the drive home, I'm TOTALLY whipped. There is no amount of AMP energy drink or Jack Johnson or Green Day rockfest that can wake me up. There's just no way I could put 3 hours (each way) behind the wheel, and hunt dark-dark on any kind of extended basis. I'd be roadkill.

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I have a few spots that are 15-20 min. away from home and work (between the two), a couple of spots that I hunt with buddies that are 35-40 min. away,one spot that is about an hour away, when I hunt in NJ it's about a 2 hour drive, and our camp in PA is 3.5-4 hours from my home. Next year I'll be hitting OH too which will probably be a 7-8 hour drive.

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I can hunt right across the road from my house just to be hunting, but need to drive for an hour to get to some spots where they have some decent bone on their heads.

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Less than a minute tothe first farm. Maybe three minutes to the second farm and six minutes to the third area.

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In my home state, from walking out my back door to traveling about 110 miles each way to one of my spots. Most of my whitetail and elk spots are within 75 miles, for sheds in the spring I make an annual trip to the Hells Canyon and Salmon River so about 250 miles.

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Yeah Fran, on my longer trips, I pull the camper like my antelope hunt in southern Idaho last summer.

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1 mile.

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35 minutes....small distance for the amount of joy it brings me.

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5-10 minutes
25 minutes
45 minutes
1 hour 10 minutes
3 hours - stay for a couple days

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Usually between 50 minutes to 1 hr and 15 minutes.

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From school, 2.5hrs. From home between 15 and 30 mins depending on the spot of public I want to try.

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I have a 50 minute (one way) drive to my prime hunting spot. I do have one that is 20 minutes away but I haven't hunted that area more than twice this season. Why is the best hunting have to be the farthest commute?

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30 minutes one way

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100yd walk, 50yd walk or 1/2 mile walk. Don't even have to get in the truck.

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close enough that my thermostat never comes open in my truck :D Either alone or with one of my kids.

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35 min. tops each way, sometimes twice a day. On my head. No problem.

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any where from 5 minutes away to an hour away