How many hours do you spend hunting in one day?

Joeyman · Post by **Joeyman** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:59 am

How long do you guys stay out hunting on average in one days hunt. We tend to stay out for roughly 5 hours. If we are having a good day we stay out even longer. Especially when theirs an overcast. I could stay out there all day long.

Big Dog · Post by **Big Dog** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:12 am

When I hunted in NC a typical day was 8:30 am until about 4 pm. When we hunt in Iowa we normally quit around 3 or 4 but we will start at 730 or 8am. On my trip to Alabama to hunt canecutters the running was good enough and the barrels were smoking so we hunted until dark.

Rabbithoundjb · Post by **Rabbithoundjb** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:22 am

Same here bigdog turn out as early as possible hunt til 3or4 pm.

Joeyman · Post by **Joeyman** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:28 am

We usually arrive to our hunting location just as the sun starts to peek out. When it's time to go you just know it. Basically if we have covered every possible area that we believe holds rabbits and if we and the dogs are tired we just head on home. I like the days when we are like Hey lets try over there and hey we still didn't hit that part of the huge field. Those hunts that never end.

Steve Shipman · Post by **Steve Shipman** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:32 am

Try for all day. Depends on how much running the dogs did in the morning. If they been hammering rabbits all morning 4-5-hrs. we'll either use fresh dogs or just pack it up and go home.

Tim H · Post by **Tim H** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:32 am

I have to drive a bit to get to hunting ground so I usually go for the whole day with a long lunch break.

Joeyman · Post by **Joeyman** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:36 am

Steve Shipman wrote:Try for all day. Depends on how much running the dogs did in the morning. If they been hammering rabbits all morning 4-5-hrs. we'll either use fresh dogs or just pack it up and go home.

Yep that's very true. I tried to horse whip my dogs once. I wanted to force them to hunt for 5 days straight for about 5-6 hours a day. By the fifth day when I went out to get them at 5 in the morning none of them wanted to come out of their kennels. I forced them anyway. The hunt wasn't all that great. They were tired.

Emery · Post by **Emery** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:41 pm

It all depends on the situation. I would say on average, about 4 hours, but if I am hunting with Swing, it is an all day excursion. 4 1/2 hours to get there and we start about 8-8:30 and hunt till dark, then 4 1/2 hours to get home... Now that I live a little closer, it will probably will take 3 1/2 - 4 hours to get there.......

B.Trull · Post by **B.Trull** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:19 pm

By myself would be 3 hrs, sometimes a little longer if with friends, weekends gotta save some time for beer,brats and football post rabbit hunt

Keystone Kid · Post by **Keystone Kid** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:57 pm

If I have the time, I hunt 7 to 8 hours a day.

Earl Marshall · Post by **Earl Marshall** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:15 pm

3 - 4 times a week 5 to 6 hours a day.

MasonsBeagles · Post by **MasonsBeagles** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:16 pm

Hunt til Im ready to go home. But usually at least 5 hours.

Greensprings Kennel · Post by **Greensprings Kennel** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:30 pm

Usually a good morning hunt, 4-5 hours. Unfortunately, i'm not as young and in shape as I used to be, and I have a alot more family time than I used to.. ( don't keep my hounds in top shape, like I should, either..

)....but we do a few all day hunts by the middle/end of gun season..

arkyhunter · Post by **arkyhunter** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:30 pm

I hunt a lot of fencerows around fields and ditchbanks a lot of the time, so i'll usually take off and walk as far as i can, go back to the truck for lunch. Unless i'm hunting with a buddy, we usually leave one truck about halfway so we can pick up and move to another place if we want. Some days i may hunt 2 or 3 different places so i shoot for all day, it all depends.

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