Where I live I have about a 4 minute drive. Where I work I can hunt on the other side of our fence, so prolly about 200 yards from my office. I have seen turkeys fly down in the morning inside of the fence and peck in the gravel...............I can't wait, hurry up March 19 !
Have about a 15 minute drive from the house to our land. I'm very lucky. There is tons of public land just as close too that I don't venture on.
10, 13 minutes and 15 minutes travel time. My 3 hot spots.
This year,45 mins. Previously 3.5 hours.
1.5 hr, 1 hr, 1 hr, 20 min, 15 min, and 5 min. The best one is an hour drive and an hour walk.
The county i live in now doesn't have a turkey season so i drive about 70 miles to our club to hunt and with the price of gas now, ouch!
Quote from: northms on February 28, 2011, 10:18:38 PM
Have about a 15 minute drive from the house to our land. I'm very lucky. There is tons of public land just as close too that I don't venture on.
What Public Land? I make a trip to the Homochitto National Forest once in awhile...........lots of people opening week, but gets a little better as time goes by.
I have to drive about 10-30 minutes to my spots in PA. If I go up to my parents in NY its about 1.25 hrs. Its always worth the trip.
before this year 5mins and 45mins. this year 15mins and 20mins. either way not to bad
hour and half....
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Guys I dont Know I just moved to Ohio from WV where I hunted them from my porch if I wanted .....???? I dont now where I m hunting yet . Awful FEELING believe me.
30 seconds from my parents house to outside, 30 seconds from my house to outside, 2 minutes from my parents house to the farm, 4 mintues from my house to my buddys property, 20 minutes from my house to 2 other locations
I have a very small private tract just a few minutes away, but most of the time I'm on the public land which is 30 - 45 minutes away. But. . . . those drives to South Florida, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, etc etc. . . . . now those are a bit farther. :you_rock:
1 hour to both of my best spots.
1 1/2 hr. ride towing the swamp buggy and then another hr. on the buggy to our spot. :turkey2:
Its about 20 minutes to the gate of my camp, 30if I go to the far gate. Couple other places around 45 minutes away. Then theres the outta state distances...
First hunt this year will be a 2 hour drive to hunt public land in Hawaii. Will be after them thursday afternoon. Can't wait. Other spots are from right out the door to an hour and half away, to multiple states away if you count driving after a hunt to the next state. God bless.
Back in 02 I drove 1925 miles from Pa to Tx for a no show hunt in a draw only WMU hunt. The wardens that did the no show drawing said I was nuts and were going to give me a hunt even if I did not draw. I killed my first Rio there, and on the was home stopped in Ks and killed 2 more, hopped on over to Mo and shot 2. Came home to Pa where I Killed one, along with Ny and Oh. total miles were just under 5k. And Diesel was under 2.00 a gal......
About 12 miles
This year about 1200 miles. From CA to MS. At home from 3 minutes to 2 hours.
TRKYHTR
First trip will be over 16 hours down. Then the rest of the season will be either 2.5 hours, 1.5 or 1 hour.
65 to 70 miles every day of our season, often times more if I hunt both tracts. I average around 6,500 miles each year turkey hunting and that's just at home here in Bama.
That's a lot of diesel fuel.
HC
3.5 hours to my honey hole, 20 minutes to some poor public ground full of hunters and few turkeys
30 miles to the club. 45-50 for public land.
3-45 min just depends on where I want to hunt that morning and how late the girlfriend keeps me up the night before.
1hr 10minutes to my spots. They are both close to each other.
5 minutes to one and about 20 to the others.
Anywhere from 2min to 20min
Closest is about an hour which is all public land. Have private land 3 hours away that I hunt once or twice per season. Other than that, it depends on what other states I hunt as to how far I have to travel ;D
about a 10 min walk from the house
Sometimes as much as a 2 1/2 hour planeride.
Now I'll drive 4 hours to hunt my lease in Kentucky, and 10 minutes to my local spots. :gobble:
They are all worth it. :icon_thumright:
Typically I will go anywhere from 2 to 4 hours to hunt turkeys but now I just moved and I have some public land just 5 minutes away. So that means more days hunting this year.
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Roughly 350 miles to the lake in Eastern WA. Too much brush here and too wet for me (includes deer and elk). I need to move but can not for five years until the wife can retire.
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Quote from: TANK on February 28, 2011, 10:24:23 PM
Quote from: northms on February 28, 2011, 10:18:38 PM
Have about a 15 minute drive from the house to our land. I'm very lucky. There is tons of public land just as close too that I don't venture on.
What Public Land? I make a trip to the Homochitto National Forest once in awhile...........lots of people opening week, but gets a little better as time goes by.
I'm talking about the Holly Springs national forest in North MS.
most are 1 - 1.5 hours from my house
1 hour and 15 minutes to the gate at the club and from there....well its 3500 acre block
30-45 minutes locally. The farthest I've driven to get to turkeys was 16.5 hours to Iowa/Minnesota/Wisconsin two years ago and the same to Nebraska last year.
I'd like to know how many hours Hookspur logs behind the wheel each year!?!
Most of my Washington spots are 1 - 1.5 hours away. It's about a 4 hour drive to where I hunt in Idaho.
It's about a 20 minute drive to where we hunt. We've been leasing it and hunting there for almost 20 years. Once we get there, we have anywhere from a 5-15 minute walk.
My closest good huntig is about 20 mins. Some closer but not near as good.
One 15 minutes
Another 20 minutes
Another about 40 minutes
Well this year since I'm new to the state of WV I'm not for sure here.
But in VA I'll have a 5 hr trip to get there then a 1 min walk out my parents front door. Then a 25-30 min drive to my grandmothers land and a 35 min drive to my in laws land. I've been blessed to have excellent land to hunt in VA I'm hoping to come across some here in northern WV.
God Bless
I have a 2.5 hour drive to our camp in northern Pa.
Closest place is over an hour, farthest is 12hrs.
I stick a shell in the chamber and go to hootin when I walk out my front door. I killed two last year less than 1/4 mile from my front door.
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From 5minutes to 1 hour drive
2 mins --20 mins
I walk out my back door and let the games begin. Im living the dream!!!
It's all according to how far I walk and if I go in front or behind the house. Could be from a 50yd walk to miles. Front has pastures that boarder Shawnee National Forest and back has soybean or corn..whichever is planted..soybeans this yr...that boarders Shawnee National Forest.
20 minutes in either of two directions to two different places.about,17-20 miles each way.i get about 20-22 mpg and it still expensive to go everyday.i can hunt public land 6 miles away if necessary.i guess,i should count my blessings for not being far away. ;)
Anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour and a half.
Closest is 3 1/2 hours and 8 hours is the longest to my son's place in KS. :icon_thumright: :cowboy:
My home turf depending on the spot is between 10 and 30 minutes. The place I hunt in the southern part of the state is a 4 hour drive from home.
45 minutes is the shortest drive I have to be near a huntable population of birds.
closest bird ive killed was 150 yards from my house. i have killed 22 longbeards excactly 973 yards from it according to my leica rangefinder, can see my house from that spot. doesnt get any better than that. i feel blessed to live in some of the best turkey country in new york.