How Big is yours

28 January 2008, 12:19

billrquimby

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

28 January 2008, 15:52

Die Ou Jagter

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.

28 January 2008, 19:18

JTEX

My hunting lease in Junction, Texas is 5400 acres and we have 17 members hunting.

28 January 2008, 19:47

D B Cooper

1.6 Million acres of heavily timbered Willamette National Forest.

28 January 2008, 21:08

yukon delta

I don't know...thousands of square miles and there are hunters around but the farther you go the less you see (like anywhere else).

28 January 2008, 21:35

Atkinson

This may come as a surprise but there is actually more huntable open land in the USA than there is in Africa.

28 January 2008, 21:47

Palmer

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

28 January 2008, 21:48

yukon delta

99% of Alaska is federal public land and it's a sizable piece of real estate.

When Buzz heard this he almost choked on his olive...

28 January 2008, 22:29

505ED

5,420 ac. family farm and ranch, been in my family since 1890's. Me, my brother and bother in law and 3 nephews.

28 January 2008, 23:00

buckeyeshooter

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.

28 January 2008, 23:01

Blacktailer

172 acres and only me.

29 January 2008, 00:21

Jeff Sullivan

My son, brother, and I hunt 850 acres in eastern Texas and 1500 acres in NW Oklahoma.

29 January 2008, 00:37

.366torque

quote:
Originally posted by ALF:
375 Fanatic:

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!

29 January 2008, 00:46

Dogleg

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.

29 January 2008, 03:03

Wes

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.

29 January 2008, 03:32

Wooly ESS

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.

29 January 2008, 09:13

bullterrier

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...