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Offline Frenchymanny

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #40 on: January 02, 2009, 10:03:00 AM »
70 miles one way to my friend Serge, the best mileage I ever do.

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #41 on: January 02, 2009, 10:56:00 AM »
3-6 miles to several tracts of state land that are from 500-4000 acres
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Offline Wary Buck

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #42 on: January 02, 2009, 11:02:00 AM »
My four 'local' hunting spots are about 16, 17, 23 and 30 mile drives one-way.  Make that round-trips, and consider that I hunt an average of 80 times most years, that's a lot of time driving.
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Offline amar911

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #43 on: January 02, 2009, 11:56:00 AM »
Roundtrip to my usual deer and turkey hunting camp here in Oklahoma is 300 miles. Roundtrip to my "usual" hunting camp in Zimbabwe, where I will be again in July, is 21,000 miles. Needless to say, I don't get to make the trip to Zimbabwe nearly as often as the trip to my hunting camp in Oklahoma. It's a long swim!    :D  

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Offline ishiwannabe

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #44 on: January 02, 2009, 12:15:00 PM »
Open my back door, walk two hundered feet. Front door, have to cross a road.
Might be driving for small game....snowshoes in the mountains and bunnies at JLMBH.
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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #45 on: January 02, 2009, 12:29:00 PM »
I usually hunt public land 35 miles away but it is on a river system that gets flooded intentionally for ducks.  Once it floods you can't hunt deer there so I have to travel 70 miles to my next favorite public land.

There are closer public tracs but they tend to have too many people.
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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #46 on: January 02, 2009, 11:22:00 PM »
15 minutes to drive there. 1 mile hike uphill after that.
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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #47 on: January 03, 2009, 04:36:00 AM »
Lucky boys I travel 11,500 miles to Colorado plus some hundred miles to elk camp
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Offline wapitimike1

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #48 on: January 03, 2009, 05:05:00 AM »
From the timber out back and 20 miles early season. Then around 100 miles round trip in Jan. It's the only zone open in our state.
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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #49 on: January 03, 2009, 05:16:00 AM »
Forty miles minimum.
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Offline VTer

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #50 on: January 03, 2009, 07:17:00 AM »
9 miles as the crow flies but about 20 min. driving, to my super secret hot spot.
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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #51 on: January 03, 2009, 07:23:00 AM »
About 100 miles to my Aunt's. I'm her favorite, so I get exclusive rights to her 50 acres. She has hay fields and it is surrounded by other agricultural fields. Deer taste just like beef.
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Offline elkbow

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #52 on: January 03, 2009, 07:40:00 AM »
i really have it lucky,500yrd walk and our season is open from sept. to feb.missed a 170incher this year after looking at him too long,i'll just pick his sheds up and get them mounted.easier on my back,like catch and release and he can grow even bigger for next year.
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Offline sharps4590

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #53 on: January 03, 2009, 08:09:00 AM »
From about 50 yards out the back door on my 84 acres to rarely 25 miles.  Many thousands of acres of public land around here but I hunt mostly at home.

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Offline Sam McMichael

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #54 on: January 03, 2009, 11:31:00 AM »
I have a small tract 9 miles from my house. Since I bought it, my wife frowns on me going anywhere else.
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Offline myshootinstinks

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #55 on: January 03, 2009, 12:00:00 PM »
I can usually get it done within 50 miles of my doorstep.  Elk, deer, antelope.  Would like to try some whitetail hunting in the midwest and hog hunting down south.  But, I've got it pretty good right here.  My only real complaint to Wyo bow hunting is that the seasons are unreasonably short compared to the rest of the country.
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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #56 on: January 03, 2009, 12:04:00 PM »
90 miles from my new home to my old hunting land.
I have access to land about 10 miles away, also. But that gets hunted pretty hard during gun season.
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Offline buckster

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #57 on: January 03, 2009, 03:58:00 PM »
I envy you guys that have close spots, that's what I used to have in TN and miss it a lot!

Now I drive about 75-100 miles each way to hunt decent WMA's, same for the lease that I was in last year near Sheridan AR.  Not too much hunting available nearby.
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Offline Broken Arrow 1

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Re: How far do you travel?
« Reply #58 on: January 03, 2009, 06:12:00 PM »
3 to 4 miles for one spot and the other is 450 round trip
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