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I'm just curious.
I've lived in heavily-populated southeast Michigan my whole life. I know lots of guys here in the Detroit area who think nothing of jumping in their truck, driving two hours just to get to the land they hunt on, put in an single evening hunt, and then immediately turning around and driving back home. And doing something like this many, many times over the course of the season. Sure makes for a late night if you arrow a deer!
My own hunting property is about an hour and a half drive from my home. Because I used to have an even longer hunting "commute", I don't consider it a big deal, especially for my most favorite pastime.
I also know guys that drive over 4 hours to their hunting properties in the northern lower. They limit their early season hunts to weekends (leaving on Friday night, returning on Sunday), and may burn a week of vacation around rutting time.
What got me thinking about this was a conversation with a friend of mine. He lives in Jackson. He's been out to tour my Hillsdale property a couple of times. He commented that the general area of my property looked like pretty good deer country, but he'd never consider hunting down that way, because it's probably a half hour drive from where he lives! That really took me aback, being the city boy/hunting commuter that I am. He hunts two different parcels, the furthest of which is 15 minutes from his house. Just a different perspective!
I've lived in heavily-populated southeast Michigan my whole life. I know lots of guys here in the Detroit area who think nothing of jumping in their truck, driving two hours just to get to the land they hunt on, put in an single evening hunt, and then immediately turning around and driving back home. And doing something like this many, many times over the course of the season. Sure makes for a late night if you arrow a deer!
My own hunting property is about an hour and a half drive from my home. Because I used to have an even longer hunting "commute", I don't consider it a big deal, especially for my most favorite pastime.
I also know guys that drive over 4 hours to their hunting properties in the northern lower. They limit their early season hunts to weekends (leaving on Friday night, returning on Sunday), and may burn a week of vacation around rutting time.
What got me thinking about this was a conversation with a friend of mine. He lives in Jackson. He's been out to tour my Hillsdale property a couple of times. He commented that the general area of my property looked like pretty good deer country, but he'd never consider hunting down that way, because it's probably a half hour drive from where he lives! That really took me aback, being the city boy/hunting commuter that I am. He hunts two different parcels, the furthest of which is 15 minutes from his house. Just a different perspective!
