Phil, Ive towed my sailboat from Texas to Chitaqua NY and from Tx to lake Tahoe just to raace for a week, would do the same for shooting. Its 390 miles for me to the sw grand and every other year the state shoot, seldom ever miss them. 222 to Amarillo, and over 100 minimum to any other shoot besides my home club. Travel just comes natural when you live in the SW part of U.S.
I've gone as far as Missoula, about 400 miles one way, to shoot one day of the Hoppie Shoot. My boys and I left about 4 AM and got home around 10 PM that night. That's been a few years ago. Earlier this spring I drove up to Butte by myself for one day, leaving about 5 AM, getting back about 7 PM. That's 250 miles one way, about 3 1/4 hours. Last weekend we drove down to Spanish Fork to shoot Saturday and Sunday, 200 miles each way. I'd go to Las Vegas for a long weekend, about 600 miles/9 hours one way.
I know where texaszephyr is coming from. Here in South Texas, we basically don't measure distance in miles, it's more like how many hours til you get to the shoot you want to go to. We here in Victoria are about 2 hours away from most of the big south Texas cities; Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi and a few local area clubs that throw shoots as well. Still, the closest one besides my home club (10 miles from the house) is Fayette County Gun Club in La Grange at around 90 miles. Just a good wake-up drive in the morning on the way to a shoot.
Back in 1996 I drove 54K between March and September. That's the most I have ever kept track of. I was shooting 7 days a week...Monday = working my day job 7am to 3pm, reloading from 330 to 530 then off to practice 25 miles away. Tuesday = 7am to 3pm, reloading from 330 to 530 then off to practice 20 miles away, Wednesday = working 7am to 3pm then off to league shoot in next county south, I worked as a puller too. Thursday = working 7am to 3pm then off to league shoot in own county, I worked as a puller too. Fridays = working 7am to 3pm then off to next big shoot, MD, PA, NY, VA, PA Grand, NE Grand, Michigan Grand then worked the shoots as a puller and shot too. Then once shoot offs were done on Sundays it was back home. The only entire week I took off was for the Grand American and I didn't work there as that was my vacation!!
BTW Texaszephyr, Chitaqua is correctly spelled Chautauqua, I know this because I live in Chautauqua County near the lake you raced on!!
Good shooting,
Jo Ann
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