In Arizona, we count our hunting areas by the number of mountain ranges in our game management units, and not by acres or square miles. We may have a lot of people hunting these areas, but it is not difficult to avoid them.
Bill Quimby
Posts: 2633 | Location: tucson and greer arizona | Registered: 02 February 2006
I have a wood lot of 160 acres in Pa and on the first day of whitetail deer season there are usually 6 of us hunting and we don't get in each others way. It is much different in the eastern US. You don't cover the area you do in the west or Africa. The deer stay in a much smaller area.
Posts: 5338 | Location: Bedford, Pa. USA | Registered: 23 February 2002
I own 80 acres and I am the only one to hunt there.
ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS
Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
A. E. Housman
Posts: 2251 | Location: Mo, USA | Registered: 21 April 2002
I have 300 acres in Kentucky, hunted by myself and either a friend or relative. I also have access to 132 acres in Ohio, hunted by the owner and myself.
Posts: 5713 | Location: Ohio | Registered: 02 April 2003
I live and hunt in a geographical area covering 600,000 square km with a population ( 2006 sensus) of only 289,044 . Most of this population live on the few small towns that are found on the main ( and only) roads in and out of the North.
The interesting thing is up north where we live there are no fences next to the roads, nor are there really farms or small holdings, once you leave City limits in the small towns you are in the bush, literally !
We more than often hunt in areas so remote the only way to get in is by float plane or by boat and it is remote, to the extent that if you get into trouble weather wise or should encounter a sudden medical emergency you are really in trouble. Whereas survival in Africa more than often revolves around lack of water, here the killer is cold and wet, it takes no prisoners.
The whole Province is 948,191 square km vs South Africa's 1,221,040 square km. The whole province only has 4.38 million people and it's estimated that the majority of people live within 100 km of the US border.
600,000 K's squared is about 48,263,228.88 acres. Yep, B.C. offers great hunting!
My home province of Saskatchewan, Canada is 588,000 Km2 of which 3/4 is public land. Basically the area of public land is roughly the size of Zimbawe with 1/15 th of the population. Our game laws allow hunting on any private land that is not posted otherwise, providing that you stay 500 meters from occupied buildings. I own 320 acres, but really that's just a drop in the bucket. I had never even seen a game fence before going to Africa.
I hunt 121 acres with a 25 acre cypress break in the center with national forest boardering 3 sides. Except for the out-laws only 4 of us hunt at any one time.
Hoping to buy an additional 40 acres next to us.
Posts: 6 | Location: Alexandria, LA | Registered: 06 November 2004
It depends on what and where I'm hunting. On my own land it's 160 acres and I (and my friends) am the only hunter. Elsewhere, it's on grazing leases (10s of thousands of acres) and other hunters, but the prairie swallows them up.
The truth will set you free, but first it's gonna piss you off! www.ceandersonart.com
Posts: 574 | Location: The great plains of southern Alberta | Registered: 11 March 2005
In NZ you can get a free permit to hunt on most Department of Conservation (ie public) land. So there are millions of acres, with no closed season for deer or pigs etc. I can have an hours drive to the Ruahine Ranges which must be hundreds of thousands of acres and not see another hunter. Or with me crashing about, another deer Permission to hunt on farmland is easy enough, and that will fill your freezer with fallow deer. And importantly most people have a good attitude about hunters and hunting too. We're pretty lucky...
Posts: 120 | Location: New Zealand | Registered: 28 August 2007