How far off road do you typically go for a deer hunt?

[splitshot]

i cant think of an early high deer hunt area that is any closer than i mile from the road.  kind of a buffer zone i guess.  i usually walk these in the dark.  have heard some shooting in the buffer zone, i suppose someone did not want to pack a deer so far or they did not know the area, or both.  mike w

[RifleRidge]

 , Excellent Question!....

Our Tree Stands are in at 3 miles.. We pack all of our goods in way early in the season and walk to our area daily in Archery season.

We like to get off the beaten path...

Deer are not far off the traveled road really.... Deer like to watch the road...

We like to get away from other Hunters..

So we go a few miles in on foot.... Chances of seeing something on the way in are VERY good and has proven to be very successful...
 

 

[Watimberghost]

We camp around 5 miles in. From there we travel up to 3-4 miles further, or back the way we came. The deer dictate that.

[JackOfAllTrades]

What's a road? 
 
Hunt camp with the boys is a 29' camp trailer. Our migration hunting site is a couple miles in the trail from camp.
 
High hunt...  I was 14 miles in this year. Last year, only 7 or so.  I could be anywhere from a mile or three from the trail at any time though.
 
-Steve

[DoubleJ]

A wise man told me on the way to camp last year, "I hunt where the deer are.  If they're in the woods, I hunt in the woods.  If they're on the road, I road hunt".  Seems like sound logic to me.

[Skyvalhunter]

I find it is easier to get good steady footing if one hunts from the road.

[headshot5]

To quote Dr. Emmett Brown  "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads". 


Seriously there is generally a road with-in 2-3 miles of where I deer hunt, depending on where I am at.