Do you hunt from home?

[glank09]

I can hunt from home, and have shot one deer
from my back deck, but generally I drive about 20 minutes to a larger property a farmer lets me hunt.

 

[SleepyJones]

I have 2 main hunting areas which are 200 km apart and I live right in the middle. Recently bought a property for hunting in the one area (160 acres) and either day trip or take the camper out to the other one (just because it's fun having a hunting camp). It's nice; general tags for 3 point & up elk and general white tail buck and doe tags every year. Makes it easy to set out trail cameras and scout. And with all this good fortune, I got skunked this year lol.

 

[Mish-pop]

I sleep in my own bed to hunt waterfowl as within 1 hour of my house. Antelope, mule deer, and elk are 3+ hours so those require other accommodations.

 

[rogerdoger]

I live in NW MT, I can hunt from home for whitetail. Can do elk and mule, but as I get older I do not enjoy walking hours in the dark with all the griz. Also the forest is rally thick and difficult for elk. So I tend to travel 3 or more hours for elk.

 

[Gman12]

Yes. I hunt behind my house and at my farm a few miles down the road. I killed the biggest deer in my life shooting out of the window at my house. My favorite hunt of the year is my annual pilgrimage to CO each September though. I would trade that one week of elk hunting for the entire deer season at home without hesitation.

 

[will_brap]

My home/property borders public land in a OTC area, so I hunt from the house almost exclusively. I have to drive 30 minutes (at minimum) to hunt elk or Bear, but I usually end up traveling further. Most of my hunting now is actually just taking my two young sons out, which is pretty awesome.

Both my kids shot their first deer within a couple hundred yards of the house on our property, but after each one got their first deer I've been taking them out on public land for all their hunting. Ground squirrels and coyotes are a mix of public and private land.

I grew up hunting a combo of private and public lands, sometimes waking up in my bed and sometimes we'd setup a camp further back in the mountains. I think its time to break out the wall tent and get the kids further back into the woods... but compared to staying home and sleeping in my own bed.... camping is a real pain in the butt

 

[Good Stuff]

I'm lucky to be able to hunt in my back tard. I have a small garden area where I plant a plot and a ground blind.

 

[floridainvestigator]

While I can hunt deer from my house, I don't. I don't have enough acreage and would be concerned about not dropping a deer where it stood and it leaving the property. Having said that, I am blessed with in-laws who have acreage within a couple of hours of me. So when I hunt, it's almost like hunting from home since they live on the property being hunted.

 

[AK Troutbum]

Sheep hunting this year from home…I can’t wait!


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[James sky]

always takes 2 hours to hunt boar

 

[Fibonacci4u]

This is one of the many reasons I love living in the midwest. We can hunt local whitetailed deer every year usually from October 1st to February 1st. Hearing stories of western residents not drawing tags or going years without hunting is depressing to me. As a non-resident applicant in western states, I certainly get frustrated with how hard it can be to get premium tags. With that said, I cannot imagine not being able to hunt a lot every single year without long road trips.

 

[Mike Islander]

36 miles to 2000 private acres of sea island paradise. I usually hunt the evening, sleep in the bunkhouse or camp in my suv, then hunt the morning. Then it's off to work.

 

[Hnthrdr]

This is one of the many reasons I love living in the midwest. We can hunt local whitetailed deer every year usually from October 1st to February 1st. Hearing stories of western residents not drawing tags or going years without hunting is depressing to me. As a non-resident applicant in western states, I certainly get frustrated with how hard it can be to get premium tags. With that said, I cannot imagine not being able to hunt a lot every single year without long road trips.

Definitely jealous of this aspect of midwestern hunting… i “could” hunt about an hour from the house but the better spots are 2+ hours away for big game, waterfowl or upland… this is why some of us are so defensive about residents getting tags before we go selling them off to the rest of the country

 

[Luked]

My normal hunting is all hunting at home.
Living in the Midwest (MO) we pretty much have Whitetail and Turkeys.
I have loads of public ground jsut outside of my town. Roughly all together probably 20k acres.
I have multiple private land I hunt on as well.
If I want to travel there are some huge Public lands within 2 hours of home for a weekend hunt. Including some Wilderness areas that I plan to hunt a lot more in this year by backpacking camp in.

I don't get the opportunity to hunt out west like a lot here, I wish I did.