Acres hunted

[Huntingfanatic]

Just curious. If you were to get on a mapping program and out lined your hunt area how many acres would you be looking at that you think you actually hunt or consider hunting. I know I have covered a lot of miles on both large and smaller areas. Curiosity got me thinking what all the different answers would be and what the average would end up being

 

[westslopelaker]

It depends on how big of an area you are hunting.

 

[Geewhiz]

I measure it in sections, not acres. And it would be many.

 

[ozyclint]

Acres sounds like a whitetail treestand thing.

WKR's talk in square miles

 

[cnelk]

I hunt over 100 sq miles. And not contiguous.

 

[Indian Summer]

About 20,000 in each of several areas.

 

[Acorn]

I hunt over 50,000 acres (75+ sq miles), also broken up into a couple different zones.

 

[Poser]

I hunt within about a 30 mile radius of my house. I capped this area on a screenshot from OnX, fed it to AI for an estimate. Between 936,000 and 1,152,000 acres is what came back.

 

[Upstatepe]

375 acres

 

[bz_711]

Several Sq Miles for elk...or anything out west.

I only reference acres when whitetail hunting small private spots in the Midwest

 

[Maverick1]

Depending on the hunt, I will travel several miles on foot.

During those travels the area I hunt at all times is just over one acre.

I’m primarily a bow hunter. Assuming a maximum effective range of 40 yards with the bow, the acreage is calculated as:


A circle with a radius of 40 yards has an acreage of approximately 1.04 acres.

Calculation Steps

1. Calculate the Area in Square Yards:
   Use the formula for the area of a circle,
   
   A=πr2
   .
   
   A=π×(40yd)2
   
   A=π×1,600yd2≈5,026.55sq yd
   
   
2. Convert Square Yards to Acres:
   One acre is equal to 4,840 square yards.
   
   Acreage=5,026.55sq yd4,840sq yd/acre
   
   Acreage≈1.0385acres