How far??

[MOBIGBUCKS]

Hey guys,

How far is everyone hunting from home??? I have great spots 45 minutes from home in several directions, but I have no time to get there working 8-430 M-F. I have some lesser spots closer to home that are maybe 15 minutes away that I may hunt a lot more this year after work. Just curious if you guys save your hunting for your "best" spots or do you get out and experiment during the week throughout bowseason.

[Chris Conroy]

My best spots are 5 min - 10 min away from home, problem is that I work 35 miles from my house. Normal commute time is an hour. I am working on getting a few spots near work. Luckily I can leave work at 130 once a week if I see a good wind or weather pattern.

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[MOBIGBUCKS]

My best spots are 5 min - 10 min away from home, problem is that I work 35 miles from my house. Normal commute time is an hour. I am working on getting a few spots near work. Luckily I can leave work at 130 once a week if I see a good wind or weather pattern.

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Exactly man. Getting off work and hunting close is the ticket. I've been trying to do this for awhile but it never panned out due to scheduling conflicts.

[JoeRE]

My best spots are 5 min - 10 min away from home, problem is that I work 35 miles from my house. Normal commute time is an hour. I am working on getting a few spots near work. Luckily I can leave work at 130 once a week if I see a good wind or weather pattern.

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I know the feeling! The office is about 55 miles from my house and all the places I hunt are on the other side of my place from that. Its generally an hour and a half process from work to hunt

The good news is my schedule is pretty flexible. I can bug out early or come in late 2 or 3 times a week.

[fishlips]

I have a number of public spots within 30 minutes of where I live. I have permission to hunt a few private pieces of land, but they are generally an hour or more away, so I don't hunt them very often at all.

For gun season I hunt about 4 hours from where I live. Love making the trip up there. Not a lot of deer, but man, definitely one of those places that got in my blood and it would be tough not to make that trip every year.

[dan]

I have 3 categories... The best stuff, that usually is not close to home... The stuff within minutes of my house, and this year I got some property near my work ( 45 min. away from home)

So I can virtually hunt any day.

[Haus86]

I drive an hour to an hour and 15 minutes to my spots.

[Redman232]

I've got a 30 minute drive to work, so over the past few years I started getting permission on properties in all directions from my office, so if I'm in the field I can swing by places for evening hunts. I also have an Iphone app with all the public land in Indiana, so I will stop and check out places when I'm gone overnight. Gives me the opportunity to hunt new ground a lot which helps because all the parcels I hunt close to home are pretty small. I also have a flexible work schedule so if we've got a good weather pattern/wind/moon coming I can leave early or come in late.

[DropTyne]

I am pretty fortunate, I have good quantity and quality public land near both my house and work. Having relocated just 2 years ago I am still working on figuring out which properties are the best ect. I still have some areas away from my house that I travel to, but the more and more I dig into the local area here I realize I may be driving further away for hunting that is not as good.

[Rutnstrut]

Our land is an hour and a half away, it's not so bad as we have our camper there and stay for a few days to a week each time. Even during the summer it's a family thing, we go down and camp and work in the woods. I also hunt some public/open land that's within 20 minutes of home.

[Dewey]

All of my best spots are within a half hour of home. Distance from work is irrelevant because I work second shift so I can only hunt weekends and during my vacation time.

I generally have a focussed plan for each day I hunt and don't experiment much on spots that I don't have some prior scouting done on. I am pretty much always hunting my best spot for each particular day depending on wind, weather conditions or time of the season.

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[tim]

I stay in Wisconsin but hunt 3 different counties. racine- 10 MIN DRIVE. Kenosha-30 MIN DRIVE, VERNON -4 hour drive. but once im in Vernon for my vacation I have multiple farms to choose from but usually focus on 3 or 4 mine included. some days I gget out of one stand and go straight to another farm for the rest of the day depending on wind/weather

[bblefty]

School keeps me limited. If I could find a way to store my gun/bow off campus I'd be able to hunt during the week. If I'm lucky I make the drive back home (1.5 hours) and then I'm within 20-45 min of my best public and private spots all weekend. One of my biggest goals is to find a sustainable way to hunt around school.

[MOBIGBUCKS]

School keeps me limited. If I could find a way to store my gun/bow off campus I'd be able to hunt during the week. If I'm lucky I make the drive back home (1.5 hours) and then I'm within 20-45 min of my best public and private spots all weekend. One of my biggest goals is to find a sustainable way to hunt around school.

I sure wish I knew about Beast tactics when I was in college. Lots of public ground I definately didn't hunt enough or the right way

[phade]

Rent a small storage locker. Had a few friends that did that in college.

I'm sort of in no-man's land for work this coming season. I'm prety much in the middle of where I have access, but it's 30-45 minutes either direction. Really puts me in a bind. Went on a massive effort last year to try to get even one spot to hunt around my work for afternoons...0 for 36.