Personally, if I'm traveling to hunt, it's probably not for whitetail. I can kill those close to home.
I may make an exception in a couple of years, as I have a friend that's been inviting me to hunt some farmland in Indiana that he has access to, and they kill some monsters off of it and the adjoining public land every year. He says that does push 200lb up there… but I digress.
If I'm traveling to hunt, and I have twice, (once with my dad on a guided public land elk hunt, once for my daughter on a DIY public land pronghorn hunt) and will be for a third time next fall (with my dad and bro for a public land DIY mule deer hunt), then I'm going for something that I can't pursue close by.
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