Do you travel to hunt?

[ScottTaulbee]

A. Door knocking doesn't get you anywhere around here, and with 3 kids, the oldest being 6. Working 6 to 7 days a week, sometimes 40 or 50 days in a row without a day off, I can't stray too far from home. Most of the public I hunt is somewhere between 1 and 3 hours from home.


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[paintbrush]

 C & D for me now, but have done E & F in the past.

[capecodmike]

F

[deathfoot]

E.

But also hunt private

[ruination]

This will be my first year traveling.

Just local states just to see what's out there.  Won't extend my season any.

[PALongspur]

Most years it's C, but some years it's E.

[Sir-diealot]

B

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[Jhp6767]

B for now, plan to do some out of state hunting once my son is a little older!

[MichaelC]

I don't post much but I'll chime in. 
I'm a solid F on landowners I've met and maintained a great relationship with over many years- always DIY, never an outfitter or club. Almost always hunt solo, put on a ton of miles in all directions for spring turkeys as well as fall/ winter ducks, geese and upland.  Would bring my lab turkey hunting but he's crappy running a diaphragm call- he's a mess with a wingbone.  Definitely ratcheted it up and focus on week days being retired 5 yrs... and the key of it all having a loving and supportive wife. 

[GobbleNut]

...A fitting poll for this bunch...   
Personally, I don't fit any of the categories exactly.  I would say I am a hybrid of C and E for the most part.  Wherever I go, I prefer to hunt public land where it is available and that has a reasonable number of turkeys as well as a tolerable number of hunters.  There are a few places (and an increasing number with each passing year, it seems) where that is an unrealistic expectation and I generally try to avoid them.  In those cases, I sometimes have to resort to going the private route, but those cases have been few and far between over the years. 

[topnotch]

E & F

[ddturkeyhunter]

Strong E been traveling ten hours every year for past twenty years to SD Black Hill, every since I got hooked on turkey hunting. Because I was not fortunate to be born in a souther state that allow you to chase turkeys for a month. When I start in MN in my area we got five days to hunt, and drew permits every couple of years. Now at least I get to hunt seven days every year in my home state. But now you might understand why I am one of them wicked non-resident hunters trying to hunt in different states. Just to make my season longer.

[Kyle_Ott]

E - 7-10 states every spring; mostly public when out of state but sometimes private

[RutnNStrutn]

F, because early in my turkey hunting experience, I hunted public land out of state, and spent several hundred dollars on unsuccessful hunts. So nowadays when I travel to hunt, it is even more expensive, so I try to increase the odds of my success.

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[TonyTurk]

95% of the time, it's D for me.  I hunt private land in 2 states, all within a 5 hour drive from the house.

I will occasionally hunt some nearby public, but do so later in the season once the crowds have thinned out a bit.

I hope to become more of a traveling hunter after my youngest is done with college in a couple of years and I actually have some money.