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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
[Re: spoon33]
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08/18/16 02:47 AM
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An hour would be a blessing. Just far enough to not feel like home but still close enough to keep momma off your back... I like it!
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 04:48 AM
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Almost 2 hours and go out every week during season and about twice a month in the off season. Yhis will be the 15th year going to the same lease so I am use to it. The drive home always seems to take more time. No I don't think I would buy 20 acres.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 01:44 PM
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An hour drive is just driving across town (metromess). I've had leases 10 hrs, 7 hr, 3 hrs and now 4.5 hrs 1 way and still go as much as can (1000-1500# feeders blessing).
However, I would not buy 20 acres just for hunting. Lease it and continue to save and lease larger property as kids age.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 02:01 PM
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An hour drive is just driving across town (metromess). I've had leases 10 hrs, 7 hr, 3 hrs and now 4.5 hrs 1 way and still go as much as can (1000-1500# feeders blessing).
However, I would not buy 20 acres just for hunting. Lease it and continue to save and lease larger property as kids age. Bingo
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 02:08 PM
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I drive 2:40 to my place at least every other weekend. I own it and plan to retire there, so a little different, but for time in my happy place, I don't dread the drive to, just hate the drive home - mainly because I hate leaving.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 02:12 PM
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I drive an hour to our place 3-4 times a week during deer season. That's the beauty of an hour drive. You can go any day you want. You don't have to plan a trip.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 02:15 PM
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For years we drove to Batesville every weekend during hunting season. 300 miles from our house to the lease. It gets to be an ordeal. Hunted Sunday evening once in all the years. Finally gave it up.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 02:16 PM
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My lease is 300 miles away. I go less then I'd like but it's nice to get away. If it was an hour away I wouldn't sleep there and having a camp is a big part of the hunt. We cook and eat together. There is no stress cause when I leave home Friday I'm not expected back till Sunday evening. I have land 8 miles from my doorstep. I never had a hunt there that wasn't interruped with family matters. I guess it's nice to have both but the lease is more relaxing. It's nice that Coopers in Llano is along the way as a bonus.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 02:48 PM
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20 acres is pretty small. As posted above, if it was only for hunting I wouldn't buy it. However, the right 20 acres could be pretty nice for casual hunting, ATV riding, and exploring with the kids. Being an hour away the kids would have no problem with the ride. Are there any improvements to the land?
I drive 280 miles to our place. During the season it will probably be 5-6 trips. Archery opener, mixed archery and MLD weekend with a friend, rifle opener, the whole week of Thanksgiving, and one other weekend at a minimum. I find myself having to make three-day weekends of it to really feel like I'm getting my money's worth. Fortunately my job offers me a good amount of vacation days each year.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 06:45 PM
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I'd think anything less than an hour travel time to a hunting place is a pretty good deal. unless you live very rural or are just very fortunate its pretty tough to find anything worth hunting on a lot closer than that. we've hunted on places that were 15min from home, to about an hour, to now its 3.5hrs or so depending on stops.
we try to go no less then once a month and a lot more frequently during hunting season. my brother and I have wives and small kids too. We have a relatively nice camp to stay in so we just take them with us. its still not as simple as it sounds all the time, but it can be done. an hours drive doesn't seem far.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 08:24 PM
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My max drive is about 285, although I've broken 300 a couple of times thanks to downhill landing areas or cart path bounces. Oh wait...
Nah man, I think most guys on here would love the opportunity to hunt within an hour of home. I can get from my office chair to my favorite tower blind is less than an hour now, but I didn't mind it at all when I used to work and live 2 plus hours away. Traveling from Atlanta to South Texas for a period of 3 years was a little much...
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 10:50 PM
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From '96-'08 I drove between 7.5 and 8.5 hours to get to my ranches. Almost every weekend. Loved it. I bought far away so I could afford more. I bought just west of high prices and waited on high prices to turn the ranch and buy more. Do your homework and buy a good deal and you'll make money when you sell. Regardless of how big it is.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 11:02 PM
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I would drive 10 hours to get away from the Drakes I can remember when San Saba and Cherokee was fun before the Dell Babies rolled in.. Next stop... Mexico
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 11:14 PM
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From '96-'08 I drove between 7.5 and 8.5 hours to get to my ranches. Almost every weekend. Loved it. I bought far away so I could afford more. I bought just west of high prices and waited on high prices to turn the ranch and buy more. Do your homework and buy a good deal and you'll make money when you sell. Regardless of how big it is. I like this reply. If the price is right buy it. I drive 350 miles a day selling parts, and still drive 150 both ways to hunt during deer season, and I don't care that much about deer hunting. I just like to go. I'm the cook and whiskey sampler. I let they youngsters kill my deer for me.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/18/16 11:25 PM
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One hour is nothing. I would love to own a small ranch/farm, 100-200 acres, within two hours of DFW and in fact hope to within the next 3-5 years. I'm willing to drive that far every day to work and back for 2-5 years or until I retire in order to live on and retire on my own land.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/19/16 12:10 AM
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140 miles to my place. The trip gets old but am retired so time really isn't an issue. Try to go about once or twice a week. The area is sparsely populated and fairly remote so not much of a problem with theft, trespassers or poachers.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/19/16 03:03 PM
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i too like the idea that when I go hunting I've actually gone somewhere. As cool as it would be to live on the place I hunted and as convenient as it was when I used to hunt 15min from home. Its also pretty cool to have a destination where you actually went to a wild place and hunted. When I hunted 15min form home we hunted on a relatives place that was 200ac surrounded by subdivision. hunting was great, but we were shooting subdivision deer. we saw deer with dog collars on and all sorts. It was great, I'd do it again without a doubt. But there's a reason folks travel to Montana and Wyoming and such to hunt. its just a different experience to have hunted in a remote wild environment than it is to have shot a deer off the back porch or one that just finished eating the neighbors roses.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/19/16 04:21 PM
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12 hours, if the hunting was good enough. I do it 10-12 times a year to the Navajo Reservation. Adios, Gary
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/19/16 05:41 PM
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I drive 320 each way once a month year round and about 3 times a month from Oct-Feb, work permitting. I work 4 days on 4 days off though. Haven't been to the ranch since April because I've only been getting 1 or 2 days off and it's not worth it to me to drive that far just to turn around the next day. The other place is about an hour and 15 minutes drive from home but I go there less often. Go figure.
Just to make sure that it is done thoroughly, I go both ways.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/19/16 11:39 PM
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It would be strictly for hunting. It's only 20 acres (gotta start somewhere right). My only concern is my wife and my two toddlers I have at the house. I would hate to leave my wife with them on most weekends just so I can go hunt. However, the positive thinking in me is in 5-6 years the boys will start going with me. To quote Arnold: "Bad idea." Work your a$$ off, save (first for the toddlers' college!), then buy something bigger when they're older and they can go with you. Try public hunting around you for now. Or maybe a cheap lease close by. Or by what you can now, college notwithstanding, and trade up when the kids get older.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/20/16 02:07 AM
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If owned 2 hrs would and the max. I hunt 2 hrs away now and I find that the later the season gets the farther apparently my trips.
If I'm not hunting something I must be dead.
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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5.5 hrs to the farm and I love every moment of it...........nice to own land in Texas !
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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Purchased our own place in the pan handle 5 years ago. Couldn't afford much acreage in south Texas so North Texas was the place to scout Hunting Family members in Colorado Springs CO. and Goodland KS. I knew I would be retiring in a couple years so the drive became less of a consideration. Retired now for 3 years drive from Corpus to Dickens 8 hours ( 500 miles) about every 2 months. We stay at our cabin for a min of 1 week each time we drive up but we Stay full time from October through January 15th. This decision has made the difference in my retirement. I haven't looked back 1 day. Always have things to do. Built my cabin, installed 2 miles of fence maintain 4 food plots etc . In my spare time I force myself to fish the Laguna Madre. God I am Blessed!!!!!!!
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/21/16 02:01 AM
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Purchased our own place in the pan handle 5 years ago. Couldn't afford much acreage in south Texas so North Texas was the place to scout Hunting Family members in Colorado Springs CO. and Goodland KS. I knew I would be retiring in a couple years so the drive became less of a consideration. Retired now for 3 years drive from Corpus to Dickens 8 hours ( 500 miles) about every 2 months. We stay at our cabin for a min of 1 week each time we drive up but we Stay full time from October through January 15th. This decision has made the difference in my retirement. I haven't looked back 1 day. Always have things to do. Built my cabin, installed 2 miles of fence maintain 4 food plots etc . In my spare time I force myself to fish the Laguna Madre. God I am Blessed!!!!!!! Sounds awesome...congrats!
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Re: Max distance you would drive on a regular basis?
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08/21/16 02:36 AM
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Every week I either travel 260 miles or 380 one way during hunting season. The Kansas drive is borderline as I get tired and if I want to sit in the stand after the drive it is a challenge. Especially with a young dog I take care of.
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