Do you hunt from home?

[Cut324]

After a trip to the shooting range I was talking w my father about how hunting has changed, the technology, and the travel involved.

Anyway we were wondering how many folks get to hunt from the house anymore? Sleep in your own bed set an alarm and go hunting. It seems with guys chasing the best perceived unit, out of state guys, and heck even front "rangers" setting up camps that it is getting less and less as in my fathers day they never traveled to hunt.. Now I am lucky as most of my scouting/hunting is from home w overnights and 2 nights mixed in there. Or almost everything I hunt is a hour or 2 from the front door even if ya count the hike, dirt bike, side by side, or jeep to approach.

So how many of you guys sleep in your own bed and hunt from your house? Does not matter what ya hunt just wondering how many folks get to hunt like this and what ya are hunting?

 

[Turpentine21]

I can actually shoot deer and hogs out of my bathroom window. I live on a river and my boat stays in the water all of duck season. Nothing like walking 25 yards to the boat and running a half a mile to the hole. I can drive my gator to two of the 3 dove fields we shoot. I do travel about 40 miles to fish saltwater and about 25 miles to catch stripers schooling in lake Moultrie. That's about the extent of my travels.

 

[FrogFire7]

Well... I'm a PA whitetail hunter, so yes. Almost everything is from home.

I have gone west for elk once, that was a good experience. Would like to get to the Midwest for whitetail and mulies (separate trips). So I guess it depends on what kind of hunt you are talking about.

 

[Bucklowery]

I hunt from home, other than a couple trips here and there. I did hunt a lot a few years back and it was a 2-3 hr drive so it was a weekend trips for those. Just whitetail and turkeys

Thanks

Buck

 

[Rick Richard]

I do for whitetail here in North Carolina

 

[memtb]

Cut324 I can, but it would be pretty poor hunting most of the time…..maybe a Mule Deer or the occasional Whitetail.

Best chance of success would be a few upland birds, ducks and geese. I guess that I could apply for a Sandhill Crane, there's a few that spend most of the year very near the house…..just never been interested.

Oh, lots of coons available…..just not high on the list for table fare!

We prefer to load up the camper, go about 80 miles, set-up camp and spend about 3 weeks living with pretty much everything Wyoming has to offer for game! It's nice to get away from home occasionally! memtb

 

[K.E.C. Darkside]

This is me, hunt from Home.
I retired a couple years ago, had my own business K.E.C. Kelley Electric Co
I never had time to do anything else.
We lived in a home with 1 acre of land, I leased 36 acres 2 miles from my house for 20 years. I made up to a 200yd range there. My peaceful place, get away.
Now we live on 30 acres, I finish building it the year I retired......
Yes I hunt from my bed and home.
My only bucket list hunt is a Moose hunt. Here in Wv is Whitetail.

 

[Rotten]

Does looking out for hood rats and punk *** gang members count?
Other than that I've shot 1 skunk and 3 raccoons and two squirrels oh and 1 feral cat and came really close to shooting a couple pitbulls

 

[PNW EOD]

Thankfully my family gets the best of both worlds each season. Sleep in our own beds for blacktail hunting in some nearby logging areas, and a few backpacking overnight hunts within a few hours drive. I know I prefer sleeping in a tent, but there is something sweet about a real bed and being able to dry soaking wet clothes/boots before the next day.

 

[Laguna Freak]

I don't get to hunt from home yet, but hopefully it's on the near time horizon. 2 years ago we bought a parabola shaped 4.5 acres sharing 900+ ft property boundary with the Ouachita Nat'l Forest in rural AR.

If Entergy builds our 800 ft of electric transmission line next week, we'll finally have all of our primary infrastructure built (clearing, grading, construction road, septic, well and electricity). Hopefully, life will cooperate with home building soon after. I mean we were born in the 1960's. Dang clock is tickin'…

 

[dustbag]

My last whitetail buck I shot it t shirt pajama pants and sandals. I put the stalk on from the dining room window to prone position behind my garage. Just under 100 yards. Last two does were in field behind house too. Love to go out west whenever a tag can be drawn. Don't hunt too hard at home.

 

[cohunt]

I have done it before, but decent hunting starts 2 hours drive or so from my house--- so if i wanted to have boots on ground and walk into an area away from other people id need to leave my house 4 hours before sunrise--- and if I wanted to stay till 30 min after sunset ( legal hunting hours)-- then hike back to truck then drive 2 hours to get home-- then do it all over again the next day I'd probably only get 2 hours or so of sleep each day.

If I'm going to do that type of hunting- I just sleep in my truck bed to eliminate the drive time over a long weekend--- if I'm gonna go for the whole 7 or 10 day season, I'll usually drag my camper to nat forest spot--- then I'll do hike in hunting and just carry a warm bag and limited food/supplies for a few days then drop back to camper for more supplies when/if needed

Some states have long hunting seasons -- weeks to months long-- but most bg hunting in co is only 7-10 days, I don't want to waste time driving to/from home half the season.

During turkey season ( it's a few months long for otc tags) I'll go for a few days several times throughout the season till i tag out but sleep in my truck bed at night

I would love to have a place I could hunt out my back door but family and job keep me planted closer to town than id like.

 

[MachV]

Have not hunted out of state for 15 years. Pulled the camper three hours south to fill my antelope tag , two hours east to try to fill an elk tag and filled my mule deer tag with a short hour drive from the house.