How far do you park from your Bow Blind?

[pigstikr]

I park in camp, walk a little over a 1/4 mile.

[Scout Man]

get a bicycle

I hunt public so I park on the road where I enter the woods
but I use my bike as far as possible
I also have a fold up game cart that will hook to the back of my bike as a trailer

I agree! I use a mountain bike as much as possible. If I get lucky and spear a deer I go get the ATV. I've had fawns chase me while on the bike and also nearly ran over wild turkey.

[CaptainDave]

I park as close as possible but far enough away as to not spook them. We have enough live oaks in clusters that I am usually 100-200 yards away and well hid.

I do about the same here. Our place is thick river bottom oak trees and brush. A couple hundred yards is a long way off the ATV path.

However, I always park in the opposite direction of where the game trails lead into my area. I also have it to where I walk in behind my stand and climb up without having to walk into the clearing in front of my feeder area.

[October madman]

Last year I parked a 4 wheeler withing eyesite (40 - 50 yards) of the feeder. When the deer came in they were eyeing it but never spooked and it took their eyes away from me in the stand. I think a lot of it depends on where you hunt and how much vehicle traffic they see. If its a working ranch they probably see vehicles all the time and it probable doesn't affect them much. I've heard guys that I hunt with argue about this and I don't know which is better walking in or just drive right up to the stand.

[T6driver44]

My new set up this year is about 300 yards. Well out of sight from the feeder and stand.

[1 big skeeter]

At our old lease, I'd always corn a bit of the area around where I was hunting by holding a freezer bag full of corn out the driver's window. I'd park the truck right next to the stand/box blind with a bunch of corn all around that area. Deer would walk right up and eat all that corn and the corn off the open tailgate.

[thebomb6_99]

Just for grins I threw out a some hand corn next to my truck when I came back it was all gone. I saw a doe an fawn running up the road.

[sharkhunter]

300 yards

[bullshark]

i walk from camp

[Stickboy97]

about 100 yds when bow hunting, under the stand when rifle hunting and once I hunted off of my ATV and had a deer walk up to within 5 yds of me.... I don't think they care.

[Red Man]

I would say each spot is a little different, with factors such as wind direction and the direction the deer are traveling to and from to be the most important factor in this matter.

[Jmh05]

I used to park 1/3 mila and walk in to this one stand I had, until I figured out that deer were watching me walk in to it. Next hunt I had somebody drive me right up to my stand and I killed the biggest deer that has been killed on the place. All because the deer were used to seeing the trucks come and go, not somebody walk in.

Now I have my wife drop me off at my stands mainly. I do have one stand that it on a ridge of a creek. I park like 30yrds from it. My feeder is down in the creek and the deer only come from the bottom. I killed my biggest buck to date at that stand, with my F-250 diesel right behind my blind 30yrds.