Travel to Hunt

What is the farthest you would drive to deer hunt?... "Drive"...

No more than 80 miles which also is the distance of my ranch to the house

I make the trip from Tyler to Paducah and Childress occasionally. It's a hard trip to do for a weekend hunt though. Roughly 6 hours each way

Unless it is for something like mule deer or huge white tail, I wouldn't drive more than 1.5 hours.

I traveled to Montana for a field trial.

I just drove 8 hours each way to hunt for a Sika deer last month. I think the longest drive one way was 18 hours, from CA to Colorado. I've done quite a few 12 hour drives one way. But if it's farther, I've flown.

Would depend on the hunt, but I have driven 35 miles to the nearest airport and hopped a airplane, But

I guess Utah is the furthest I have driven...

I drive about 3.5 hours routinely. That's close enough that I don't "have" to stay overnight to go check feeders & cameras.

3.5 hours almost every week.

Probably no more than 5 hours unless it was a great place, then just double it to 10 hours.

Driving to hunt is no big deal, I drive the 13 hours back and fourth to AZ to hunt predators more than a half dozen times a year. Gas is cheap and highways are good. Just schedule not to hit Albuquerque at rush hour.
Adios,
Gary

I drove 1250 miles each way to hunt in Wyoming.

75 miles from our drive to the gate of our place in Runnels county.

I drove 650 miles to hunt pheasant in Kansas this year. Friday I'm leaving for Palo Duro, 4 hr drive.

It's three hours to our place.

45 minutes to our place in Callahan county

3.5 hours each way to our south texas lease which I do almost every week during season. Have driven to Idaho with a trailer and Polaris to elk hunt. Pretty much will drive anywhere if its a good hunt

Idaho to Arizona for Coues deer is about 1000 miles. Going down to South texas for Whitetail and turkey is about 1800 miles. We are serious about our hunting trips.

IMO, the length of the drive is proportional to the length of the hunt. Weekend at the place, not more than 6 hours. 6-8 days chasing elk or mule deer, may be 15-18 hours?

I have been driving to West Texas to hunt for 8 yrs now. It is 425 miles now from my house to ranch HQ. I also have been going to Western Kansas for 4 yrs now. That is 925 miles. I also have made the trip from Ft. Stockton twice in Dec back to Kansas just to hunt for 2 days then back. That is 660 miles. Was on a lease in Jayton that was 325 miles door to gate and I hunted it every weekend for 3 yrs.

Traveled 2 1/2 hours to my lease for 5 years untill we lost it. Now I go where ever I can hunt, including 17 hours to Colorado for elk this year.

6 hours from Katy to my ranch in Del Rio. No problemo.

I drive 3 hours to hunt the family ranch in Cotulla.

as far as necessary.

18 hours on the road for a hunt is better than one hour in the office. The farthest I have driven is Flagstaff, AZ.

Depends for me.

On a lease we had, it was 4hrs one way, didn't like it unless it was a 3+ day hunt.

If it is a one time hunt like Elk in Colorado, Bison in S. Dakota, or turkey/deer in MO, then the drive is tolerable.

I have been driving from the Phoenix area to Cross Plains, TX for the last 6 years, 943 miles door to gate.
It is worth it to me to hunt private land, very uncommon in Arizona, with friends.
I have a nice bed to sleep in and walk out the door and am hunting.

Mark

1650 miles from door to cabin in Montana I hunted elk out of on 5 trips. Priced out of my budget these days or would be glad to hunt that place again.

All the leases I have been on in Texas have been within 3 hours one way including the one I am on now. The one exception was West of Camp Wood and that one though closer than my place in East Mississippi, I could be hunting in Mississippi before I could get to that lease.

Help run a turkey hunt in the Spring for the last 5 years and plan to do it as long as they will let me just North of Bracketville. That hunt is well worth the drive helping kids hunt turkey is a lot of fun.

For 16 years I drove 6 hours one way, then for 5 years 4 hours, now 2 hours one way....Always hunted with a friend so the drive was as good a time as the hunt.

Last year 800 miles each way to hunt mule deer in northwest Nebraska.
I would drive further for a giant mule deer.
For a whitetail about10 miles is my max.

100 miles from Wife's house to ranch house. I've done it for so long I could do it in my sleep.

8 hours to mexico but it was worth it for a weekend hunt.

Drove 2,000 miles from SE TX to Regina, Saskatchewan 11 years ago to hunt ducks and geese for about 10 days. Great trip. Drove pretty much straight home, nonstop and it took 33 hours stopping in Fayetteville, Arkansas to drop off my rider. The dog and I made the last 9 hours without much conversation.

Drove about 1,000 miles scouting while we were up there so put over 5,000 miles on my PowerStroke for that trip. Good times.

T