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I spent the better part of 30 days or so in a tree stand hunting deer last fall, and traveled about 2 hours to get to my spot. I am just wondering how many days y'all spend, and how many miles spent travelling last fall to pursue our passion.
I would LOVE to bowhunt deer in Texas. Is there anywhere y'all would really like to hunt before our time here is done?

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I didn't get to hunt very much this year at all, I probably spent 20 days hunting and I too drive about 2 hrs to my hunting grounds. I would love to go whitetail hunting out West, Montana, etc

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I hunt only locally. One spot is 30 minutes away and another is an hour. I use the closer spot to hunt a morning here and an evening there during the work week and hardly ever take a vacation day to hunt. I only get out about 20 times during the whole September 15-December 31 season.

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I hunt one spot right behind my house and two more spots that I have to drive roughly an hour. I probably hunted 25 mornings and 40 afternoons with about 20 of those days being daylight until dark days.

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I hunted everyday of archery and gun season. I guess it was 60 or so total. I tallied the hours once and it was scary!! Luckily I travel about 15 minutes from my house. Most of the time I went from work where I drove a utility golf cart (gator) to where I hunt.

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Where do you work?
:(

Apparantly you are not married[:'(]

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I always hunt on my days off unless it's Sunday (there's no Sunday hunting where I live and football is on right after church anyway).

Since I work a 4 on 2 off schedule PLUS I take off 3 weeks in late Oct/early Nov, I probably got out all or part of 45-50 days.

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Most of my all day hunts were weekends except for 5-7 of them which were vacation. Other than I hunt in the afternoons after work during Oct. and the first part of Nov. and weekends morning and afternoons. To answer your question I am a manager with pretty flexible schedule and yes I am married, at least for now;)

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I probably hunted 20 days and spent about 1/2 hour for 12 of those trips. Four trips took 45 minutes and the other four about an hour and 15 minutes.

I'm trying to find spots closer to where I live so I can spend those precious hours in the woods and not in the car.

Fritz

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I probably got in about 10 mornings and 15 afternoons . If I could I would be out every day. Unfortunately the work weeks are longer than the weekends if you guys know what I mean!

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I probably got 70 days worth on stand. One spot is about 5 minutes, the other is about 15. I also took a trip up to the northern part of the state for a 3 day weekend, and took 3 trips to the east part of the state for bow, rifle, and blackpowder. I have no clue how many hours i spent deer hunting. Plus, there was turkey, pig, and waterfowl hunting also.

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new here! spent about 70 days in a stand OKlahoma and Kansas. 20 miles close and 200 to Kansas

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Im retired and have much more time than most to hunt and travel.
This past season I took three out of state hunting trips plus took a 400 mile side trip to check out an Elk hunting spot for this year.
I also hunted in my own state of WI.
I figure I put on 6800 miles and spent 30 days bowhunting and eight days rifle and muzzleloader hunting. Just the drive to ID and back is 3700 miles.

I do this every year to some state or another, Co, WY, OH, VA, ND, MI, MN where ever my desire and friends will have me:D

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Im 40 miles from my hunting club and will get
to hunt more this year im retired now![8D]

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Our hunting cabin is about 3.5 hours from my house, but I have a few local spots around home for bowhunting with the closest being a 2minute ride to the farthest being about 15minutes, soo all in all I would guess I am pretty lucky.

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Usually take 2wks for elk, and just hunt the weekends for deer till I tag out. 3hr drive to the moutains I hunt...

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For elk hunting I drive about 70 miles through the back country to the trail head. It is 5 miles hiking to get back in. Usually spend the night and hike about 1 mile to the elk spot. I have done this as a day trip and hiked both ways with a head lamp. I carried a 100 lb pack on the way out. Went home, got some sleep and went in with help the next day to get the rest of the meat out. Last year was the same but both of us had an elk down. Made 2 trips one day and two the next. This is my closest spot. I usally drive further during the late mule deer hunts and for antelope. Everything in the west is far away. I have slept in my truck, under my truck, and in the bushes. Would't want it any other way.

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I could hunt in my back yard but I haven't seen huge there yet let alone big. I travel 5 hours to hunt and mixed it in with work. It worked well this year but next year I won't be able to pull that off. In all I went about 40 times (times=morning or afternoon). This year I may start hunting in some new states.

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I usually hunt behind the house, and the 460 acres next to my property, both are private property. The other proprty we hunt in is 14 acres about 45 minutes from home to stand, private. I also have access to 200 acres about 20 minutes away, private property. Sometimes we hunt on public game lands, 3,000 acres, about 5 to 10 minutes away.

Not sure of the time I spend hunting since I usually try most of the private property and very little of the public.

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I only own 120 acres but for me and my buddy that only comes up on weekends that seems to be plenty.I go out the back door and can be hunting in about 5 minutes:).I went out almost everyday after work and all but 1 or 2 weekends--atleast 60 days to the woods hunting.Only saw 1 buck during bow season and he saw me first=no chance at that buck:(.HAD A BLAST!

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I hunted 38 times out my backdoor.

Hunted 5 times at my property 2 hours away.

One deer in the freezer.

Saw 46 deer for the season.

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50 times out hunting(not full days just times I hunted). I am lucky to have excellent bow and ml areas real close to home that allow me to hunt after or before work so inside 30mins. I travel 4 hours for both Elk and Moose hunts. 1 1/2 -bear and 1 1/2 for my rifle WT deer area.

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I spent around 40 days in the woods bowhunting last fall. That work thing always seems to get in the way though[:@]. One spot I hunted, I was in my treestand 15 min. after I left my house. The other spot is 30 min. drive plus 30 min to 1 hr walk. Makes for some mighty early mornings in September;)

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I live in good whitetail and great elk country in western MT, but still feel duty bound to try to hunt the entire blinking state. I scout whitetail winter and spring and elk in the summer. In five years I've hunted in 5 of 7 regions here. I'll hunt 50+ days in a season if I take too much time filling tags, but last year I only got in 29 days, for 3 antelope, 2 whitetails, and an elk. My favorite whitetail areas are 500 miles from home, and I take a week in November to go there, then hunt weekends around home. In September, I take 16 days off to bowhunt elk. Then, if I can scrape up an extra week of vacation, I'll travel 600 miles to SE MT for antelope in October. I kind of have it made, but I've become a hunting bum, everything else comes second.