Billy the Avenger 113 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Me and the wife are driving to a monthly shoot right now, we just passed another shooter we know from our club he drive far To get to us. So how far will or do you drive for a monthly,the same day not on a trip or overnight stay My answer is 3 hours one way Billy the Avenger Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie Plasters, SASS#60943 308 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Driving from Corntown to the NAZTY bunch range out by Winona takes me about an hour and a half. Now if my son was driving it would be substantially less! Link to post Share on other sites
Blackwater 53393 5,940 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I drive three and a half hours when I go to Ponderosa Pines. Worth every SECOND and every penny spent!! Can't wait for the Crap Shoot in March!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Yul Lose 6,608 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 About an hour and a half to three different monthlies and about 10 minutes to two others. Link to post Share on other sites
Driftwood Johnson, SASS #38283 1,051 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Howdy Interesting question. Two hours used to be my limit. I used to drive two hours regularly to a match in New Hampshire. No problem in the morning, but in the afternoon after a full day of shooting I was awfully tired and having trouble staying awake. These days there are a couple of shoots less than an hour away. I don't drive the two hours to the shoot in New Hampshire anymore. Just too old to stay awake on the drive home. Link to post Share on other sites
Boggus Deal #64218 273 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 About 2 1/2 hours for a monthly. Drive down Friday, shoot Wild Bunch Saturday, Cowboy Sunday and drive home. Link to post Share on other sites
Tyrel Cody 5,264 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 100.7 miles (2 hours) from my driveway to Wartrace Link to post Share on other sites
Pit Bull Tex 139 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 97 miles to Orange for our bi-monthly shoots. Link to post Share on other sites
Cheyenne Culpepper 32827 965 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 in Fl 15 mi to 130.... in OH,,,70 to just over 100, I use 5 hr energy drink just before leaving usually... Link to post Share on other sites
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme 1,214 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 2.5 hrs one way for a monthly. Makes a nice full day, especially if weather is good. Link to post Share on other sites
Most Wanted 2 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 You guys are tough. Our drives are from 35 min to an hour and a half one way. Link to post Share on other sites
Church Key, SASS # 33713 251 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I carpool to a couple of PA matches. Takes 2-1/2 hours each way. My closest match is exactly 1 hour away. Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce Stevens SASS#55996 4,442 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 3 hours and it has to be dang good. My wife and I put so many miles on a car driving to every monthly possible. 15 years later I have become much more selective. Link to post Share on other sites
StirrupTrouble 573 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 My usual monthlies are about 45 minutes away, but there is another club that is just over the Iowa line that I try to catch a couple each year and they are just over 3 hours away Link to post Share on other sites
Edward R S Canby, SASS#59971 882 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 The most I drive is 90 miles. The trip takes me 90 minutes on a rural interstate and a rural US highway. The three other clubs I shoot at are less than 45 minutes driving time. I really don't like driving anymore. I've had too many close calls and like DJ I get fatigued. Link to post Share on other sites
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 6,930 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 When Hubby was shooting and we lived in downtown Sacramento, the farthest we drove on a regular basis is approximately two hours one way. On a few occasions when we visited his mother, we would stop at a club that is about three hours one way. Now that we've moved east, I drive about 45 minutes to the closest range. I have driven up to 10 hours to an annual. A one-day each way drive is about my limit to an annual. The drive to a match isn't so bad, it's the drive home, after a long busy weekend, that is difficult. Link to post Share on other sites
Yusta B. 1,472 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I drive from 68 to 161 miles in E. Tx. That covers 6 clubs. Link to post Share on other sites
Matthew Duncan 1,533 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 20 minutes for the regular monthly. Once or twice a year I try to get to a "new" club, 2 hour ride one way is my limit. Link to post Share on other sites
Lunger 9 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I farm, so i'm quite a distance from any club. Closest is 1.5 hrs and furthest is 3.5 hrs. I gave up on the 1.5 hr club to shoot the 3.5 hr club. The furthest club is the best practice for the larger shoots I want to do well at, so we're rolling at 445am to make it there in time. 3 of the clubs we shoot at are a minimum of 3 hrs away. Might sound silly, but I think the closer range is a bigger waste of time and money versus the furthest club. If sass went back to the way it first was, I'd be shooting the closer clubs. Anyway, ill drive the 7 hr round trip to go to a good shoot.Lunger Link to post Share on other sites
evil dogooder 995 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 There are two clubs i like to shoot at that are over 4 hours one way but i don't shoot at them every month. The closest clubs i shoot at are an hour away Link to post Share on other sites
Southpaw Gringo, SASS # 74217 48 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Holy Cow! Some shooters sure have some long drive times to get to a monthly. With the clubs I haunt the most, Two Rivers Posse is 15 minutes away and Coyote Valley Cowboys is 1 hr 25 minutes away. In fact Im suppose to be there right now but I couldn't get out of bed DAMMIT... Link to post Share on other sites
Grizzly Dave 960 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I have 6 clubs within an hour and a half each way, could shoot every weekend if I wanted to and have a choice of clubs on some weekends. Most of them are between an hour and fifteen minute and an hour and a half. One club 25 minutes away but it only shoots in the summer due to host range needs. Before I started CAS if you'd told me I'd drive over an hour each way a couple times a month for a hobby I'd have said you were nuts. In my rattletrap car driving isn't something I really enjoy. Now I do it willingly to enjoy the people and the shooting. I have driven 15 hours or so to annuals, taking two days going out, and often just one coming home with a co-driver. Those trips only for matches that I know to be worth the time and expense. Generally a one day drive to an annual would be my target distance, and still I am rather selective about those as my budget is quite limited. Link to post Share on other sites
Marshal Chance Morgun 1,090 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Very luck to have a club that is only about 20 minutes and another that is 1 hour away. As to a one day trip, we have done a couple about 2 1/2 hours away. Link to post Share on other sites
Jess Money 22 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 1 1/2 hrs to Peacemakers range, 40 min to the Bounty Hunters. Link to post Share on other sites
Dogmeat Dad, SASS #48563L 449 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 My wife and I consider ourselves fortunate in that there are two monthly matches close to home, one is 6 miles and the other 35 miles. Travel times are about 15 minutes and 45 minutes. However, last year we traveled 940 miles one way for a one day shoot (granted it was a State BP Shoot, in Florida, when we had ice and snow on the ground at home), and we will be going back again this year! There are several more monthly matches, easily within 1 1/2 hour drive, but unfortunately, we just don't have that much free time. Some day....... Link to post Share on other sites
Straight Arrow Hombre 196 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 3.75 hours to paradise pass. Long trip got old so we built a cabin and now make it a weekend event. Link to post Share on other sites
Rye Miles #13621 6,814 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 We're lucky here, the farthest monthly for me is 2 hours, the closest is one hour and the other 3 shoots are an hour and a half. 5 monthly matches when there's a fifth Sat. Rye Link to post Share on other sites
Major BS Walker Regulator 611 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I can shoot at 5 different monthly's with the furthest being 1hr.& 20 min., two at about an hr. and two at 35 min. Life is good here in good old Richmond, VA. To answer the question, probably 2 hrs. Link to post Share on other sites
Crossfire Brown 25 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Twenty minutes to ninety minutes. I sometimes go to a further match but take the RV to make it easier on me in the morning. CB Link to post Share on other sites
Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L 2,628 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 TRR. home club 28 miles one way, 50 minutes 3x a month: two match days and one practice day WHC 92 miles one way, 2 hours, just shoot on Sat--miss too much church with home club cr Link to post Share on other sites
Russ T. Sites 128 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 30 mins for my home match , 1 hour to two for other matches Link to post Share on other sites
Two Spurs 47 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 We have 4 clubs between 15 minutes and an hour and 10 minutes. The steady ones are 1 hour and 1 hour 10 minutes. Link to post Share on other sites
Prairie Dawg, SASS #50329 1,776 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 1st Saturday -- 75 minutes one way 2nd & 3rd Saturdays -- 105 minutes one way 4th Saturday -- 130 minutes one way All worth every minute --Dawg Link to post Share on other sites
Blackey Cole 84 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 About sixty miles or so for the closest club about the same for the other club if they use the range in Ruidoso if they use capitan range about half again further. Link to post Share on other sites
Kirk James 687 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 We drive to four different monthly shoots that take us approximately two hours. Usually means getting up at 5 am for most of them and dragging two teenagers out of bed. Worth every minute. Link to post Share on other sites
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