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I built a house where I hunt. I can shoot them off the porch or drive a couple Miles around to the other side of the lease. Ive got other small properties to hunt within 15 miles. Married with 3 youngins.

165 miles door to door. I have to drive I-65 between Birmingham and Montgomery to get there, so travel time can be as quick as 2.5 hours or as long as 5. I have a wife and elementary age kids, so about 8 days in camp during hunting season is about all I can manage. I enjoy tractor work, planting and other work related things down there, so I probably spend another 8 nights down there outside of hunting season.

Live in Moody, camp is 2.5 hours away, married with three girls. Spent 15+ nights away, kids are still just a little bit young so they will not start going till next year.

Three hours one way, married with kids in college, built a camp that's as nice as my home a couple years ago, have 25 employees that allow me to get away when I want. Around a hundred days a year at camp for me.

5 minutes from my new house to the club house, so no stays there. 1 hour to our mountain land, camped about 7 nights in late Nov-early Dec. Married, kids grown, oldest son is my hunting partner. I basically have the same setup that Matt has. I can walk out of my yard onto the club. Deer and turkeys in the yard every day.

1 hour away from home, married with 2 kids (ages 2 and 5), have private camp with all the comforts of home, stayed roughly 30 nights only 5-6 without family

20 miles from my house to our gate,we have a camphouse on the property,usually stay 4-5 weekends a season

I either don’t have a camp or live at my camp. I dunno. It sounds awful cool, having a camp, but some of y’all doing a lot of driving.

We finally have a huntable deer population locally, so I hunt close to home a lot. I did manage to drag the camper to public land and spent around 10 nights broken into a few trips. It is enjoyable if you have someone with you on the trip but a true camp setting is the one thing that I do miss from a hunting cclub. I may join another one day just so my son can experience it.

Camping sounds fun too. I’ve never owned a camper.

Married. 4 year old daughter

Hunting property 15 miles one way, and another place I hunt10 miles the other.

Place to stay at one. Maybe 8-10 nights. Only 2 full weekends (Friday and Saturday).

Close enough to run in town and have lunch with them midday helps

The “camping” part of hunting camp is what I enjoy the most. One of the older guys we hunt with I think likes to cook more than he does hunt he’ll climb down around 8:30-9am every morning and cook up one heck of a breakfast. It’s nice getting back to camp at 10 to have a hot cup of coffe and a hot breakfast waiting on you. He also loves showing off his skills on the grill as well. All we have to cook with at camp is 2 charcoal grills. One small propane Webber and 2 propane burners/stoves. But man do we eat good down there.

We had a place in Virginia for years and years. My uncle liked to cook like that.
We called him “the camp bitch.” Hell, he took to calling himself that.

Have several buddies who would prefer to cook than hunt.

Hell, have several who prefer to work on tractor than hunt.

Best to keep both around

Seems like the evolution from hard core hunter to camp cook is a common theme. Happened in ours as well. We also have some guys that came to 3 or 4 workdays and never sat in a stand this year.

Married with one daughter at college and another one will start this fall.
I live on 45 acres and hunt there on Sundays and weekends when I'm on call, At camp in a trailer probably every Friday night when not on call. Hunt some extra vacation days also. It's an 1 1/2 drive.
Since we will be empty nesters the wife might go some since she doesn't want to stay at the house by herself.

Make no mistake though. Our camp cook is a big buck killer when he wants to be. He’s got an impressive trophy room. But kind of like what you are saying I think. He’s at the point where he just enjoys camp and would rather see someone else get a deer

52 years old and Married w/ grown children

Oktoc Mississippi 150 miles
I have a house trailer/Slab House for camp
20 trips including work days
And my wife came over 3 trips

Alabama Wilcox County 100 miles
Use an 32 ft RV Camper f/ Camp
10 trips including work days
And wife came w/ me 2 trips

Well said. The camp cook is my dad now.... Killed more deer and better deer over the years than most members in our club(s). But now for him it is about relaxing, cooking and enjoying stories of the day as much as anything. That said, year in year out, he kills one of the nicest deer taken each year.

I live 45 mintes away married no kids at home. Including turkey about 50-60 nights a year.