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How many days are your out of state elk/deer hunts

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My goal has been to go every year... shorter trips makes that feasible... but yeah I’m picking up what you’re putting down. Hopefully we can talk AK over beers this winter and get you out there.
Sounds like a plan. Fridge is always full haha.
 
First trip.. I left Indiana on a Thursday night, got to Colorado Friday afternoon, scouted, shot a buck at 8 AM on Saturday (opener) and was home by Sunday afternoon.

Now I try to stretch my trips out longer. All that planning and anticipation, it's a shame when it's over in a flash like that.

Most trips I take one week, with a weekend on either side. Sometimes I do two weeks, like my Wyoming deer hunt coming up this year.

When my kids are older, I may burn all my PTO at once and go for a month. For now, I try to keep it to one trip per month from September-December, with an occasional spring bear hunt in May.
 
I always like to take the day off after I get home to clean and put away gear, clean the truck, and hopefully process meat.

That is my thinking as well. Planning on getting home on a Saturday and going back to work Monday.

I am trying to avoid thinking about how far behind I am going to be at work after taking two full weeks off. I put the over/under on the number of unread work emails that will require action at 200.
 
That is my thinking as well. Planning on getting home on a Saturday and going back to work Monday.

I am trying to avoid thinking about how far behind I am going to be at work after taking two full weeks off. I put the over/under on the number of unread work emails that will require action at 200.
I made the mistake once of planning my return from a hunt the sunday before leaving on a 3 day work trip. Made for a long night of cutting meat in order to get it done before I had to leave for the airport Monday AM.
 
That is my thinking as well. Planning on getting home on a Saturday and going back to work Monday.

I am trying to avoid thinking about how far behind I am going to be at work after taking two full weeks off. I put the over/under on the number of unread work emails that will require action at 200.
if we take turns driving I can usually get my emails caught up on the ride home. Luckily I don’t get as many as you do!
 
One out of state hunt planned this year, giving myself 12 days including travel, 6 hour drive to the hunting location. Plan to hunt the last 12 days of the 16 1/2 day season. Most likely take an easy day half-way through if needed, depending on weather.

One scouting session already done, spent four days in early July reacquainting myself with the area, and found a couple areas I had not been before that look incredible. Hope to get over there one more time in the dead season between archery and rifle here in Montana.
 
so many variables to answer that question for everyone. As a general statement though, if you work a typical 9-5 job Monday to Friday and the trip planned is over 8 hours away (basically meaning that leaving after work on Friday doesn't get you to your destination in a reasonable time ahead of Saturday morning) it makes the most sense to take off of work for a full week giving you actual hunt days from Sunday to Saturday - a full 7 days. Friday night/Saturday are traveling as is all day Sunday coming home.
 
Typically 9-10 days (incorporating 2 weekends) for my elk hunt, so I take about 5-6 days off work.
This when I can...But when the season opens on a weekend it makes it tough to get the benefit of both weekends and just take a week off work. If I'm driving, just about everywhere in the Rockies is a 2 day drive with an overnight. So 9 days (5 days hunting) is the usual one hunt duration. I've done 2 weeks off in a row and hunted Wyoming and Oregon, but I was fortunate we didn't have to make and break camp.
 

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