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
   

 

[Huntingfanatic]

Acres sounds like a whitetail treestand thing.

WKR's talk in square miles

lol. Acres is just what popped up in the software I was using at the time. So let’s do sq miles. I already see some answers of large sq miles. I guess to clarify my question, how many of those squares miles are actually covered and hunted

 

[Geewhiz]

how many of those squares miles are actually covered and hunted

Depends on where I glass up animals. There is no definitive answer.

 

[BuckSmasher]

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

It may help refine answers if we knew why you were asking, and how you wanted the answers defined.

-Does the area I ride my horses through on the way to our camp count?
-Does an area that I may or may not get to every year but generally try and check out count?
-Everything I look at through my glasses on a hunting trip in my unit count?

Etc.

Regardless of how it is defined gonna be many, many acres. One reason I love federal land.

 

[BAKPAKR]

Depends on where I glass up animals. There is no definitive answer.

^^This.

I knew an older guy who would hike a couple miles into a rock each year. He would then sit there smoking cigarettes until a bull came out in a small opening of less than 2 acres. He got a bull there every year. I, on the other hand, would walk miles and miles and miles, not smoke any cigarettes, and often not get an elk. In my defense, I usually used shorter range weapons than the old guy.

 

[BuckSmasher]

^^This.

I knew an older guy who would hike a couple miles into a rock each year. He would then sit there smoking cigarettes until a bull came out in a small opening of less than 2 acres. He got a bull there every year. I, on the other hand, would walk miles and miles and miles, not smoke any cigarettes, and often not get an elk. In my defense, I usually used shorter range weapons than the old guy.

I hope I find a spot like that I can use when I am an 'older guy'.

 

[Ross]

Acres and Elk. Have not heard of them together before.

 

[fatlander]

We “hunted” 10ish square miles last year. One small canyon that consistently produces year after year had over 100 head of elk in it this fall. It’s about 500 acres. We killed two of our 3 bulls in that canyon. The other bull we killed was a gimme that wanted to die on our way back in to that canyon after packing the first one out.


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[2tuna]

There's a 5500 acre State Wildlife Area in NM that I've archery hunted. 7 days there, and it starts to feel pretty small, though no doubt there are many spots we didn't see. It's bordered by private ranches and a bigger, more prestigious unit, and it's easy to get overly fixated on the boundaries.

 

[Chris in TN]

Think in units, not acres, unless you’re on good private land.