Are you in the sticks?

[VA Elite]

No pun intended. But do you live in the sticks and are able to walk out your door to got bowhunting? I did growning up, but we got pushed out of farming for "progress" and eminent domain is a real thing. Too bad we didn't actually own the 1500 acres, it sold for 8 million $. We were like the share croppers of the old south. But I long for those days being able to just literally walk out my front or back door and be in the woods in less than 30 seconds...

[ronp]

I can walk across the street and hunt in a river bottom where I live now.  I grew up in a place I could hunt outside my back door or across the street.  We used to camp out in the woods behind the house.  It's all grown up back there now with sub-divisions.

[CRM_95]

I live in town...but it's a small town. I have a 2k acre lease 10 minutes away and 160k acres of National Forest in my county and the county south of me, so I don't have to go far to hunt. I'd love to move out of town though even if it was a small place. 10 or 15 acres would be plenty for me to hunt on if I owned it.

[redfish]

For two falls now I have lived within 50 yards of about 1500 acres of national forest that is archery hunting only...and haven't hunted there yet.  It is severely grown up and needs some management, such as a prescription burn, but its location along side an interstate highway and near a subdivision prevented it from being burned when it should have been. Now it is way too far gone to burn.

[Anointed Archer]

My back yard!

[Orion]

I live in town, but own an 80 with a cabin on it 300 miles to the north, surrounded by thousands of acres of public land.  I can walk out the door and be hunting.  One of my better stands is about 200 yards south of the cabin.  

Worked all my life to be able to buy my little piece of paradise.  The drive to it is a bit long, but it's remote (away from people) and I use it every chance I get.

[RC]

There is a tree about 300 yards from my back steps I have tradbow killed 19 deer from. Thats just one spot there are several more but that one is best. I killed a big hog and 8 deer from another half that far from the house but that section of swamp got cut out and is now one heck of a bedding thicket.
  I built a new longbow this weekend and walked near a mile loop on a neighbors place I can hunt shooting stumps learning my new hunting partner. RC

[VA Elite]

Originally posted by Anointed Archer:
   

My back yard!

yep that's how it was here. now we a 1 million sq ft Amazon warehouse across the road, one interstate, 4 subdivisions and capitol one and philip morris all around me....sad.

[glenbo]

I can change my clothes and hop over the stone wall and be hunting. 60 acres or so that I don't own but have permission. Not the greatest hunting area ,as there are other hunters but I have been fairly successful over the years. Tens of thousands of acres nearby that is state hunting land and is under 45 minutes from my home.

[Red Beastmaster]

If you can't pee off the back porch you live too close to town!

I hunt deer and small game in a woodlot 200 yd behind the house.

[VA Elite]

It is a very unique thing these days to grow up on a farm or land you can hunt without getting in a car. I just read a report from The Natural Resource Council that we are losing 1 acre of farm land per minute in the U.S., breaks my heart.

[fnshtr]

My brothers  farm is 1 mile away and I have killed between 100 and 120 deer within 200 yards of my back porch. I am truly blessed to have hundreds of acres of neighbors land to hunt on while only paying taxes on 2.

       

[damascusdave]

I could shoot mule deer in my back yard but because of a family tradition of regarding them as pets I will not do that...there is no such tradition for elk though and I fully expect to see one in my yard one day

DDave

[fishone]

I have been blessed. I can and do walk out the back door and deer hunt. We own 78 acres with about 25 acres of woods and 15 acres of wetlands.

[degabe]

I can sit in my back entryway on bad days and shoot a deer when ever I want but that isn't hunting. The first blind is about 100 yards out.

[VA Elite]

keep it coming coming..I like to hear this!

[MCNSC]

I have a couple of stands behind the house on 5 1/2 acres. Haven't  killed anything but time there. I have saw a few and passed up shots. Get lots of night time trail cam pics but they rarely make it to my property in the daytime. it is nice to be able to get a quick hunt in if I don't have time to go elsewhere.

[Butchie]

Fortunate to have several hundred acres across the street from my house to hunt.  Have taken many nice deer there over the past 20 years.

[Whip]

I own 64 acres and walk out the back door to hunt.  About 40 of the acres is currently cropland that I will be gradually reclaiming for habitat and food plots.  Spring will be busy planting trees, shrubs, forbs, prairie grass, and food plots.  

One of my best stands is about 125 yards behind the house and I've been eyeing up a tree with a couple good trails passing by that is less than half that.  Of course there are multiple stands a bit further away.

I know that I am fortunate to have what I do.  But it all started many years ago when we started squirreling away $200 each month toward a down payment.  We had a plan, and eventually we made it happen over a long period of time.  It all worked out better than I could have dreamed.  If you want something bad enough don't wait for it to fall in your lap.  Set goals, and make it happen!

[Dendy Cromer]

Yeah. I live so far back we don't get Saturday Night Live until the next Tuesday. I can be in any of my stands in less than 15 minutes  from the doorstep. I got really lucky to have a wife that would let me buy something so far out.