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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
[Re: HuntnFly67]
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12/24/15 05:37 PM
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I don't do too many miles. A round trip to family property or lease is 250 miles. But then I hunt every weekend during deer season (about 3000 miles) and almost every weekend during the year.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
[Re: HuntnFly67]
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12/24/15 06:07 PM
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Right now with no lease, I walk about 150 yards..
Drive about 2000-2200 each year hunting Colorado though.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
[Re: BigPig]
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12/24/15 07:25 PM
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800 miles round trip. 80 miles a day while I am there. 4 trips in season, average 3-4 days while I am there. 4480
500 miles round trip. 50 miles while I am there. Average 11 trips. 6050
10,530 give or take. How big is your lease  ? 80 miles a day on the property? Kansas he doesn't stay on the property. That's what I figured. That or he hunts on the King Ranch 
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
[Re: HuntnFly67]
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12/24/15 11:25 PM
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We're north of 15k, but it's work too
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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12/25/15 02:05 AM
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Our place is 345 one way or 690 round trip miles door to door. It is 36 miles round trip to the nearest town. Per season we are close to 7000 miles total for hunting.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
[Re: BigPig]
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12/25/15 03:18 AM
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I have a 2012 2fify with 169k And a 2015 2fify with 49k  I'm buying a damn plane with a wet bar I can't believe those Ford have held up that long, seriously, with your OCD I can't believe they haven't rattled to death and been traded in. My last 2 Fords were nothing but rattle traps. I kept everything in the tool box in the bed because the door panels and dash rattled so bad. The driver door panel on the last truck broke around the screw holes, gorilla glue and plastic weld held great, feel sorry for whoever bought that truck. There isn't a truck made that doesn't rattle. My old dodge rattled the bumper off, the seat broke three times, amoung numerous other things. While that is very true, and can be said of alomst all vehicles, the glove box should flop open due to rattling and the dash pad pop up while driving down the road. I truely loved my Fords, but hated paying that much for something that was fallinf apart before 50,000 miles. I bought this Dodge for the same reason JG said, the Cummins, if the rest of it falls apart then I wont be mad becasue I bought this truck not expecting much. Lol ok that last part was pretty damn funny. Really they are all good trucks, compared to 20 years ago. You either get the Tuesday built truck or the Friday truck
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
[Re: BigPig]
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12/25/15 03:23 AM
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800 miles round trip. 80 miles a day while I am there. 4 trips in season, average 3-4 days while I am there. 4480
500 miles round trip. 50 miles while I am there. Average 11 trips. 6050
10,530 give or take. How big is your lease  ? 80 miles a day on the property? Kansas he doesn't stay on the property. That's what I figured. That or he hunts on the King Ranch A lot of that country is checker boarded. Section at a time. Lot of farmers and ranchers over the years have sold bought traded etc. so job Bob farmer may have a section here then five miles down the road another section, then a quarter section over here etc. hard to explain until you have been up there. Ranchers/farms that don't follow the section flow are normally river bottom or drainage type areas.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, b/c they know not victory nor defeat"- #26 TR
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
[Re: HuntnFly67]
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12/25/15 07:41 AM
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4.3 miles driveway to stand, twice a day on Saturday and Sunday starting in October plus one full week in November twice a day and one full week in December twice a day.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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12/25/15 12:57 PM
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I can't believe those Ford have held up that long, seriously, with your OCD I can't believe they haven't rattled to death and been traded in. My last 2 Fords were nothing but rattle traps. I kept everything in the tool box in the bed because the door panels and dash rattled so bad. The driver door panel on the last truck broke around the screw holes, gorilla glue and plastic weld held great, feel sorry for whoever bought that truck.
There isn't a truck made that doesn't rattle. My old dodge rattled the bumper off, the seat broke three times, amoung numerous other things. While that is very true, and can be said of alomst all vehicles, the glove box should flop open due to rattling and the dash pad pop up while driving down the road. I truely loved my Fords, but hated paying that much for something that was fallinf apart before 50,000 miles. I bought this Dodge for the same reason JG said, the Cummins, if the rest of it falls apart then I wont be mad becasue I bought this truck not expecting much. Lol ok that last part was pretty damn funny. Really they are all good trucks, compared to 20 years ago. You either get the Tuesday built truck or the Friday truck 
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
[Re: HuntnFly67]
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12/25/15 01:15 PM
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About 3000 miles---going to the ranches at least twice a week which is a 90 mile round trip. Dang, I wish you hadn't asked.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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12/25/15 01:22 PM
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You zip it STX with the heated tailgate joke 
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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12/28/15 01:00 AM
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Houston>Colorado and back Houston>Reserve NM and back Houston>Oklahoma and back 4 or 5 trips to Camp wood area from Houston
Id say well over 5000k
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
[Re: HuntnFly67]
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01/07/16 05:24 PM
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37 miles (45 minutes) one way to my property. Go hunting maybe 10-15 days a season (no housing YET). Plus about everyother weekend to fill feeder, maintain, and walk fencelines.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/07/16 05:36 PM
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I have a 2012 2fify with 169k And a 2015 2fify with 49k  I'm buying a damn plane with a wet bar I can't believe those Ford have held up that long, seriously, with your OCD I can't believe they haven't rattled to death and been traded in. My last 2 Fords were nothing but rattle traps. I kept everything in the tool box in the bed because the door panels and dash rattled so bad. The driver door panel on the last truck broke around the screw holes, gorilla glue and plastic weld held great, feel sorry for whoever bought that truck. Chocolate still looks as purdy as the day I drove her off the lot Amigo...few minor set backs on our long term Goals together ..8 new injectors and 4 new sensors ..Got a new pair of brakes and betcha she's good for another 169 if I wanna push it...been kicking a can around "thinking" about it but that vehicle is as clean as a whistle man..never had any rattles you speak of, have a little whistling wind noise on the 15 if the winds blowing the right way on the freeway ...I will find it eventually ..Truly been good vehicles so far FIL has a '14 ford, quietest vehicle ive been in. Heck my old man is a 20+ year GM man and his next truck will be a Ford but I got him talked into keeping the d-max a little longer... but it rattles like a rattle trap!
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/07/16 05:39 PM
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Our round trip to and fro is about 320 miles. We go at least once a month year round and quite a bit more often during the season and pre season. The driving is split between three of us and we ride together though. Made several runs just to hunt, no feed etc. and drove a car 35 mpg is a nice change from 15 with a loaded trailer.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/08/16 03:57 AM
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At least 10 k but 5 k of that was to hunt in British Columbia. As went on a few far west Texas hunts and than 15 or so trips to the lease at 150 a round trip.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/08/16 04:28 AM
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I just realized I've tacked on another 1100 for hunting since I posted the question. Yowch. Was thinking I'd slow down since I bucked out, but not so much. Heading out again tomorrow.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/08/16 02:03 PM
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hmmm, interesting topic ... it might take a little time to add all mine up, but I suspect it's easily in the several thousand range not counting the trip to CO elk hunting (which would add a couple more thousand). I'll be back with close to real numbers ...
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/08/16 03:02 PM
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For just hunting, it looks like it was around 5200. This doesn't include preseason trips getting stands, feeders, pens ready and clearing brush.
This includes -2100...7 trips to the FIL's place at 300 total miles round trip. I stay at their house and drive 15 miles one way to my stand. ~600...a trip to Ozona with my dad (pmk) and my brother in law ~2500...a trip to Colorado for the DIY elk hunt. I had exact mileage shortly after the trip, but forgot that number.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/08/16 03:06 PM
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8 Miles from my front door in town (small town) to the lease. 400 miles to family land in E. Texas. Make the 400 mile trip one a year. Probably a little over 1000 a year.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/08/16 03:26 PM
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228 miles from driveway to front gate plus runs into town of 18 miles each way. Probably do 500-550 each trip and I've made 10 trips since the end of Aug.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/08/16 03:55 PM
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140 miles each way door to door. 300 miles a weekend give or take. That's every weekend, hunting or not.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/08/16 04:07 PM
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222 miles round trip......go every week during deer season and twice a month rest of the year.
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/08/16 04:36 PM
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Re: How many miles do you drive to hunt - season total
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01/08/16 06:42 PM
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rough calculations 5100 miles for whitetail in Texas this season plus 2100 on the DIY CO elk trip ... 7200 miles (so far)
heading to Ozona this weekend and then Oatmeal several times next weekend to take SIL and likely next Sun. afternoon to my lease to finish out in Llano county ... so will end up slightly over 8000 miles for hunting this season.
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