Texas Hunting Forum
How far do you drive
Posted By: Alex 56
How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:19 AM
How far does everyone drive to their place where they hunt? I'm trying to find a new lease and since everything seems to be 3+ hours away I am trying to justify to myself if I am willing to drive up to 4 hours each way as I will be going a lot to hog hunt. Especially pulling my camper hopefully diesel prices stay low lol
Posted By: dogcatcher
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:23 AM
75 miles from my driveway to the front gate.
Posted By: Alex 56
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:25 AM
75 miles from my driveway to the front gate.
Oh if only I could find something that close within my price range haha
Posted By: The Duke
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:27 AM
123 miled door to door.
Posted By: jab3006
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:27 AM
Walk out tbe back door and hunt, but also have a lease right at 6 hrs away. Like having my own place right here, but also enjoy getting away for a while.
Posted By: SnakeWrangler
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:32 AM
5 miles from my door.....
Posted By: Nathan at Fork
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:33 AM
I walk to my stand from the house. But, Im special.
Posted By: TXHOGSLAYER
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:35 AM
34 miles from my second home.
Posted By: Erny
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:35 AM
68 miles- 1 hour 5 minutes
Posted By: Roll-Tide
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:37 AM
68 miles. North of Athens
Plus i get to stop at buccees....
Posted By: Alex 56
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:41 AM
Must be nice. Almost Everything I've found in my price range is 200+ miles away haha
Posted By: TexasKC
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:42 AM
I've shot hogs while i was sitting on the back porch. Probably around 600 yards down to the blind/feeder pen. My last lease was exactly 300 miles from my driveway to the gate. After 5 years it got to be an ordeal.
Posted By: TEXASLEFTY
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:44 AM
2.5 hours driveway to blind.
Posted By: JustWingem
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:45 AM
453 miles from driveway to front porch of the lease cabin.
Posted By: CRAnderson52
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:54 AM
197 miles from my driveway to the front door of my trailer.
Posted By: Sneaky
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:56 AM
3 hours or so. Find the right place, and it's worth it. I wouldn't make that drive for just any lease.
Posted By: Superduty
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:57 AM
4 hours,..when invited.
Posted By: BigPig
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:08 AM
5 hours each way, just over 600 miles round trip
Posted By: Bee'z
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:12 AM
Haven't been there yet but it should be a little less than 3 hours. 11 Hours one way if we go saltwater fishing.
Posted By: bigjoe8565
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:15 AM
3 hours and 45 minutes with no stops and no traffic or 275 miles each way. I go to the lease 12-14 times per year.
Posted By: Buzzsaw
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:17 AM
6 hours, Frisco to Kerrville (Comfort). ride down is always fun, ride home is an AW.
Posted By: Leonardo
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:21 AM
About 70 miles up until this year. 40 miles.
Imo increase your budget to keep it as close as possible. Fuel adds up especially pulling a camper.
Posted By: bull279
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:25 AM
20 minutes from my driveway to the front gate.
Posted By: mustafa
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 05:24 AM
4.5 hours
Posted By: Mike Honcho
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 05:33 AM
6hrs to family land, but lease is 9mi away got lucky with that.
Posted By: hopalong
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 09:30 AM
we kill coyotes and hogs off the patio.
got bambi feedin at the rear windows now, 3 doe/4 yrlings.
I am lucky that I get to manage the place.
Posted By: snoopy
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 09:55 AM
2.5 hours house to gate. Driveway to gate.
Posted By: Txduckman
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 09:58 AM
Just under 2 hours from the center of the metromess. 105 miles.
Posted By: cm250
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 01:06 PM
100 miles front door to gate.
Posted By: mattyg06
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 01:10 PM
92 miles
Posted By: A.B.
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 01:12 PM
Walk out tbe back door and hunt, but also have a lease right at 6 hrs away. Like having my own place right here, but also enjoy getting away for a while.
x2
Behind the house or 6.5 hours to Wellington.
1.2 miles from front door to gate.
Posted By: bill oxner
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 01:36 PM
Thirty five miles.
Posted By: Fat Tire
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 01:40 PM
130 miles. About 2 hours.
I got lucky and found a place in Thurber with electricity and a small shack to sleep in for $1200 a year.
Posted By: Espy
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 01:58 PM
10-25 mins from the house
Posted By: elstone
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 02:10 PM
116 miles gate to gate.
Posted By: TexFlip
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 02:23 PM
6 hours to the one in the Hill Country and a little less than 2 to the one in East Texas.
Posted By: rickym
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 02:33 PM
4 and a half hours to the wifes family owned place, 1 hour to the new lease.
Posted By: jmac24
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 02:35 PM
5 hours
Posted By: Brother in-law
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:15 PM
130 miles
Posted By: HWY_MAN
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 03:20 PM
How far does everyone drive to their place where they hunt? I'm trying to find a new lease and since everything seems to be 3+ hours away I am trying to justify to myself if I am willing to drive up to 4 hours each way as I will be going a lot to hog hunt. Especially pulling my camper hopefully diesel prices stay low lol
13 miles from the recliner to the gate.
Posted By: Wytex
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:12 PM
We drive 850 miles to our hog hunt every year. Kind of makes it a one time a year deal, unless the annual Christmas trip down to see family turns into a hog hunt.
Posted By: 2hellandback
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:28 PM
1400 miles hogs!
50 miles to good yote hunting!
20 miles to jack rabbits!
400 miles to Prairie dogs !
1-2 hours each way depending on where I am hunting.
Posted By: Creekrunner
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:39 PM
45 minutes to my "little patch of dirt".
5+ hours to the lease, without pushing it too hard, with a couple of brief stops.
Posted By: Txhunter65
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:46 PM
115 miles
Posted By: Txhunter65
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 04:49 PM
1400 miles hogs!
50 miles to good yote hunting!
20 miles to jack rabbits!
400 miles to Prairie dogs !
Posted By: Wilhunt
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 06:11 PM
110 miles to the gate.
Posted By: deerhunter1956
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 11:12 PM
2.5 Hours unless traffic is bad
Posted By: GLC
Re: How far do you drive - 02/11/17 11:51 PM
3.5 hours
Posted By: poisonivie
Re: How far do you drive - 02/12/17 12:15 AM
3 min walk
Posted By: aggiehunter03
Re: How far do you drive - 02/12/17 01:16 AM
18 miles
Posted By: tigger
Re: How far do you drive - 02/12/17 01:27 AM
262.5
Posted By: daulongranch
Re: How far do you drive - 02/12/17 01:59 AM
242 miles, but I own it so it's well worth the drive. Tons of deer from the park that is next door also helps.
Posted By: MS1454
Re: How far do you drive - 02/12/17 02:24 AM
about 4 hours for quail
about 45 min for ducks
From what I know, most people on the quail lease are from SA or Austin. Even on public land it seems to be the same. I have to be one of the few that make the drive from Houston. Makes me wonder about my priorities.
Posted By: samsamthemex
Re: How far do you drive - 02/12/17 01:10 PM
45 minutes for deer, hogs, rabbits
20 minutes for ducks, dove and quail.
Posted By: Txhuntr2
Re: How far do you drive - 02/12/17 02:56 PM
428 miles one way. About 7 hours
Posted By: Hunt n Fish
Re: How far do you drive - 02/12/17 03:43 PM
Not on a lease anymore. Maybe in the future, but the last one was 70 miles one way, driveway to gate! Longest distance was about 5hrs one way.....
Posted By: old raider
Re: How far do you drive - 02/12/17 04:30 PM
Graham, Texas... 110 miles to camp. 2hr. 30min.
Posted By: MikeC
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 12:58 AM
279 miles
Posted By: HS2
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 04:06 AM
About 80 miles from my house, 53 miles from my work.
When I was a kid, my uncle would sit in his recliner while watching TV, leaving the window open. During commercials he would pick up his shotgun and shoot out the window at the squirrels, never leaving his chair.
Posted By: txshntr
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 04:09 AM
3.5 hours, 6 hours or 7.5 hours
Posted By: Stub
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 01:02 PM
107 miles or 1:45 minutes
Posted By: Curtis
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 01:41 PM
About 1/4 mile to the first stand.
Posted By: CCBIRDDOGMAN
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 02:00 PM
6.5 HRS
Posted By: janie
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 02:47 PM
97 miles.
Posted By: titan2232
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 02:52 PM
6 hours without the wife, kids, and extra stops. 7 hours with them
Conroe area to dang near Juno
Posted By: redchevy
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 02:55 PM
No stops = 2.5 hours, dinner and gas stope = 3.5 hours.
Posted By: kick2theside
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 04:47 PM
456 miles frome house to house.
Posted By: ZK-315
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 04:49 PM
118 miles - 2 hours to one
297 miles - 5 hours to the other
Posted By: Buffs 1
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 04:52 PM
68 miles or 712 miles.
Posted By: Southtexas36
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 04:52 PM
630 miles one way, 1260 round trip, been doing it for 35 years.
Posted By: Tony270
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 05:11 PM
Phoenix, AZ to Montell ,TX 13 hours!
Posted By: Choctaw
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 05:20 PM
A little over three hours. I like the drive though.
Posted By: Mathp
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 06:05 PM
2 1/2 hours
Posted By: 1860.colt
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 06:14 PM
Posted By: PMK
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 08:28 PM
~29 miles or 30 minutes to my little piece of dirt
~300 miles or ~5+ hours (detour thru Lampasas for corn) to SW of Ozona
~156 miles or ~2.5 hours to east Texas
Posted By: RockDocJoe
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 09:28 PM
It takes about 3 hours just to get out of DFW and see hunt-able land.
That being said, my Father-in-law's friend's place is ~1.5 hours for waterfowl and supposedly deer, although I've never seen one.
Posted By: don k
Re: How far do you drive - 02/13/17 11:10 PM
Outside the yard fence.
Posted By: Texas Dan
Re: How far do you drive - 02/14/17 12:10 AM
About 90 miles.
Posted By: Flashprism
Re: How far do you drive - 02/14/17 12:45 AM
530 miles each way.. Own the place and being retired we spend at least a week each visit. Stay from October 1 to Dec 20th all hunting season!!!!!!!!!!!! I sometimes have to pinch myself so I know I'm not dreaming!!!!!!!!!
Posted By: texas wetlands
Re: How far do you drive - 02/14/17 01:43 AM
420 miles each way. Wouldn't change a thing!
Posted By: ETXFIREMAN 1
Re: How far do you drive - 02/14/17 02:13 AM
240 home to camp, 4hr 10 min without any stops
Posted By: jwb
Re: How far do you drive - 02/14/17 06:55 PM
Five minute walk out my back door to first stand. 20 minute drive east to my second stand. And 2 1/2 hour west to Evant for the main lease. Been there 20 years. I used to hunt near Juno in the mid 70's . Love the country but I don't miss the long drive.
Posted By: DUKFVR
Re: How far do you drive - 02/14/17 07:06 PM
11 hr round trip to our place.
Posted By: cjb8030
Re: How far do you drive - 02/15/17 09:09 PM
15 miles.
Posted By: Echo 80
Re: How far do you drive - 02/15/17 10:05 PM
395 miles
Posted By: newulmboy
Re: How far do you drive - 02/15/17 10:13 PM
278 miles from door of my house to camp house door.
Posted By: chesterc
Re: How far do you drive - 02/16/17 04:34 AM
137 miles, 2 1/2 hour drive. I actually like the drive. When I'm 45 minutes out from the lease I finally feel like I'm out of the city and it feels so good.
Posted By: DH3
Re: How far do you drive - 02/16/17 04:55 AM
365 miles..my home driveway to my ranch gate. I enjoy the trip and have figured out what time to drive to see very little traffic.
Posted By: sbushee
Re: How far do you drive - 02/16/17 05:17 PM
220 miles. Just got on a fantastic lease and the drive is so worth it