How far will you drive to hunt this year?

[Van/TX]

500 miles round trip for free public land.  1200 miles round trip for free family land             ....Van

[John3]

Diesel fuel cost at less than $3.oo will not cause me to change any of my hunting habits.
 I can and do hunt within walking distance of my back door. 45 miles to my "honeyhole" for deer. I drew a Kansas tag this year so another trip west appx. 330 miles one way. The Kansas deer are worth $5 a gallon.. LOL

JDS III

[justin ammons]

first it's off to southern CO, then to NM, then it's off to ID.  that'll do till Oct. 2.  then...who knows?  too bad i'll be filming and not hunting.  poor me.

[BamBooBender]

Bushman,I hope you guys get the law changed over there.      


Killdeer,    

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.

That'll be a sad day indeed. Makes me sad just to think about it.  I can only imagine how much it must affect you.  :(

[Brian Krebs]

I have aready driven over a hundred miles on scouting trips.
 I intend on a 4 mile round trip on opening morning; and a 12 mile round trip in the evening.
 Last year I shot my deer on my property; and maybe I will walk to my elk.
  But yeah- gas prices are affecting my scouting and hunting plans. we are at $2.95 a gallon here.
 I remember saying if gas ever went up to .50 a gallon I wouldn't buy anymore. Then I ammended it to $1.00 a gallon.
 I live in an area with a lot of sight seers and fishermen and hunters; and rafters- and even before the fires closed everything down- the amount of visitors was low.

[Woodduck]

During the early season, I have left my house driven to the farm, walked to stand, climbed it,didn't have time to cool off and put on hat; but had a deer down in sight, looked at my watch and 30 min.had elapsed from leaving home.....WHEW!  

[OzarkRamblr]

I have 600 acres leased about 40 minutes NW of my home town.  Pretty quick trip for me.  That's going to be my regular hunting spot this year but I'll drive as far as I need to, to visit or hunt with others.

[Biggie Hoffman]

I didn't mean to say I don't care what gas costs (although that's exactly what I did say) I meant it doesn't matter what it costs, I live to bowhunt and I'm going regardless. I wish it was 30 cents a gallon again, then I wouldn't have to work so much in the off season :-)

[Charlie Lamb]

Biggie... understood! Just the price of doing business.

[bear1336]

1150 miles from my home in Georgia to Drummond Island,Mi.  My hunting place in Ga is 75 yards from my back door.  I try to hunt MI for a couple of weeks each fall.

[Tom Leemans]

Got me a new place this year. With the new bridge across the Rock River, it's 12 minutes!

[gregg dudley]

280 miles to regular spot on lease in Ga.  I go there more weekends than not between September and January.  There are four of us in the lease and we try to drive together.

Flying to Colorado for elk/mule deer.

Missed all the local quota hunts except gator, which I haven't managed to fill yet.

I do have some local opportunities occassionally.

[4runr]

About 11 1/2 hours to Vermonsters and back. Around here it's out the back door in the evenings, an hour north to some public and friends property. Sometimes I make a trip to southern OH to another friends property. I hope to make it to WV to a cabin I have been invited to.

[fflintlock]

I'm about 20 minutes from a pretty decent WMA here in Georgia, add 10 minutes to another one, about 45 minute drive to a National Forest, that'll pretty much be my limit. Not due to gas prices, just due to time alloted for hunting. I'll take a few days here and there during the week, then the rest of it will be on the weekends. I am lucky enough to have an "Archery Only" W.M.A. close to home. It gets hit good during the early bow season, but when gun comes in, well, that's where I'll be  
 I have never been on an "out of state hunt", heck I'm doing good just affording the local stuff LOL!!
Jerald

[BradLantz]

4,000 miles to northern Quebec
1600 miles to western Kansas
2,000 miles (250 miles roundtrips, 8 trips) to my Mom and Dad's ......

7600 miles

[Bonebuster]

I`m lucky, I have hunting within minutes of home.

However, the price of gas is still affecting me.
I know it is affecting others as well. Maybe it wouldn`t be so bad if it was just gas that was higher.

[eagle24]

AL to IL in November.  Little over 600 miles I guess.

[IB]

The first out of state hunt will be a tad over 4500 MILES        

Thanks SOOOOOOOO much fer bringin this up "HERMOAM"  

[Larry Yien]

In 2 weeks I'll be heading to Idaho from California.  One way it will be over 900 miles of driving, about 13 hours.  It's all worth it.

I got a new hunting rig, it's a turbo diesel that gets 50 mpg on the highway.

My hunting in State is a shorter drive, about 300 miles one way and 6 hours of driving.

[swp]

90% of mine is either out the backdoor or drive/walk 1 1/2 miles up to my great aunts old place. I will be going to Pike county (about 6 hours) for my St. Judes hunt and I am trying to find the time to go scout it. Also thinking about floating down into a wilderness area sometime before gun season. For the most part I am pretty much a homebody.