How far will you drive to hunt this year?

[Curveman]

Already drove to Quebec, around 1200 all told. Most trips within 30 miles one way from here, maybe one 300 to NH. Can't take it with you.

[rascal]

I hunt about 3 hours (200 miles) away on my lease and I drive a V10 F250 Super Crew cab!!!!  It gets 13 MPG on a good day with a tail wind going down hill but no I wont be changing my hunting plans.  Money is just money but hunting time now thats a different story....mine is priceless.

[hormoan]

50 yards out the back door max, and I'm hunting  :D  But then there will be some road trip this year. I'm thinking Vermont for one about 775 miles one way. The Texas in Feb, have not computed that one yet  :D  

                  Brent

[Jerry Jeffer]

I have one place that is on my way home from work in the AM, so nothing extra spent there. The other place is 35 miles away, but @ 60MPG who's complaining.

[HARL]

I drive about 14 hrs.north every year to moose hunt.Everything else is 20-60 min.

[Chris Lantz]

About a 40 mile drive from my house to hunt a public forest area. I will be traveling to Nova Scotia to hunt this fall with my father, that's about 1100 miles. Once there tough it's only a couple hundred yard walk from the house to the stand.

Really never thought about the cost of fuel, it's pretty much a 45 minute to 2 hour drive for me to do anything, trout fishing, shooting at the club, and hunting. So it's either pay the price for fuel or don't go at all.

[Killdeer]

Bushman, I hope you find yourself just a hair downwind of a huge herd, which decides to munch and rest a bit during its migration.    

I will be going to the same old place that I have gone for over twenty years. It is an old friend, even in the lean years. It used to be four hours away, but they have flattened mountains and put in a superslab for city fatcats, and it only takes three and a half, now. I guess eventually, West Virginia will be pretty much like everywhere else. I miss the loneliness of the byways, and the way that the long and difficult trek kept most of the slobs and easy-streeters out.

Killdeer

[BigRonHuntAlot]

I can walk out the back door and hunt but gas prices will not deter me from traveling to hunt new grounds and meet new and old friends. Hunting is a passion of mine...

[redfish]

I may get to go to west Texas for mulies...if I'm lucky.

[robslifts]

iwill be driving to colorado myself ths year 1475 miles each way but I may help a guy ge  back from there  this year for elk

[Big Dave]

15 min. from house to stand most of the season and 2 or 3 times will drive 80 mi. one way gas shared with friend

[Biggie Hoffman]

Leaving for Montana on the 1st, probably two trips from Georgia to Kansas, my lease in s. Florida is 7.5 hours each way and I'll go there every other weekend until next may when it starts getting too hot.
I work allot of hours all year to be able to hunt allot in the fall and winter and spring. I don't care what gas costs.........

[tamure]

Originally posted by Bushman:
You are fortunate despite the increasing gas prices. I have to go abroad to hunt with the bow. We are working on getting it allowed here as well, but changing the law takes time...
Anyhow - next Monday I head for Quebeq, Canada to hunt caribou :-D

That really puts it in perspective. I'm thankful now that I only drive 4 hours. Good luck on your caribou hunt!

[Ray Hammond]

Just got back in July -drove from Georgia to LaTuq, Quebec. Last fall drove with Biggie to uppermost Maine...I drive 4 1/2 hours each way to hunt pigs once a month...I drive when I get drawn out west for elk, mule deer, etc.

I leave Tuesday for Hudsons Bay with some friends..driving all the way to Radisson, Quebec.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

I went for a drive looking for camels earlier this year, and by the time we got back home a week later, we'd clocked up 6000 kilometres in the ute.

Early next year, I hope to do a 5000 kilometre round-trip for goats, followed by a 4000 kilometre round-trip for camels, horses, donkeys, and dogs.

[CJ Pearson]

I drive with Ray and we drive each other crazy. So count that all up and we agree with Biggie " I don't care what gas costs........."

Just hunt and enjoy it.

[kennym]

As far as needed..............

[Danny Rowan]

Lets see, I am flying over 7,000 miles to Texas then will drive all over Texas to hunt. I too, do not care what gas costs.

Danny

[LONGHORN]

Mostly 10 to 15 minutes minutes,add to this a 14 hours one way (631 miles)moose hunt in northern Ontario.After this trip,all local.
Serge

[Brian Stewart]

I don't care how much gas costs, either, but I do care about how much I consume, which is why I've always chosen to buy fuel efficient vehicles and to live close to where I work and recreate.



Brian Stewart