one stands in the middle of the section...bout half mile and ones next to the big road... bout 250 yards..... thinking of some more places tho... just gotta get permission..... so that could easily extend it to 3/4 to a mile...[:-]

I hunt moslty farms in my area and I park in their barn driveways out of their way. So it is only a matter of where I chose to hang my stands at. I like to stay back in the woods a ways and away from field edges so it is usually a good walk.

I think I' m gonna set up a blind in the bed of my truck. Because no matter how far away from it that I walk, when I come back, there' s usually several deer right there by it eating. [:@]

For bowhunting, I usually dont have to go over a half mile. But for gun, I might go a mile or a mile and a half.

I' ve been successful anywhere from 50 yards to 2 miles, but most of my stand sites are around 1/4 mile in. Those long 2 mile deer are usually the result of wanna-be still hunting that gets way too fast and I cover way to much ground!

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Most of my stands I can park within about 300 yards. The furthest I usually have to walk is 1/2 mile.



Two years ago I was hunting a public hunting area, that a buddy of mine had told me where to set up and hunt. I made the mile hike and hunted and wound up seing more hunters than deer. Late, that morning on the way out I was about 50 yards from the truck and I heard a twig snap. I eased over to the side of the road and there was a doe moving toward another group of does that were feeding on acorns not more than 75 yards from the parking area. They were down in a hollow and it was pretty thick and if the one hadn' t been close enough to the road, that I could hear it, I would have never known they were there. The next day I parked in the same old spot, but I hung my stand about 70 yards from the parking area. I watched hunters come and go all morning. The deer would just ignore hunters slamming their doors and starting their engines. Other deer would literally ease up to the road and listen and look both ways and then they would come right on across. I saw 3 bucks several does and killed a doe that morning off of that stand. I have hunted that stand several times since and it is always a productive stand. I learned that day that deer pattern people more often than people pattern deer. I also learned that you may have to walk a mile to get back to the deer and sometimes if you walk a 1/4 mile, you may have already walked past them. The key is being versatile and being willing hunt places that most people wouldn' t.

I once shot a deer that walked right in front of my truck.

In circles doesn' t count

Depends on where Im going. If Im home I walk about 140 yards. Right now Im sitting here watching 19 Turkeys in my back field and yesterday I got a black bear on video tape feeding there also! - so my vehicle stays right in the garage. Other times its anywhere from 2/3 hundred yards to a couple miles.