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Sobercolober
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Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?....
#14579756 - 06/08/11 01:13 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hi all, I am wondering what people regularly travel to go hunting for mushrooms. Do you consider an hour or two's drive a big journey out? Does where you live in the world make a difference? A 2 hour drive might seem like a lot for a European dweller but not so for someone in the USA/Canada, I will let you tell me.
Very interested by all means add the following....
Do you normally plan a stop over? How long do you tend to take "nature walk" for?
Personally a 1 hour drive is typical but I will possibly be considering venturing out further this year to enhance finds. I have a better car than I used to have, I had a 19 year old car previously made it slightly cold and perilous (used to leak water) lol.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Sobercolober]
#14579777 - 06/08/11 01:18 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Shit, I'd travel to the other side of the world to hunt for mushrooms if I could afford it  2 hour drive isn't too much, especially if you're going to find some good edibles. Make a camping trip out of it.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Ran-D]
#14579795 - 06/08/11 01:22 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ran-D said: Shit, I'd travel to the other side of the world to hunt for mushrooms if I could afford it  2 hour drive isn't too much, especially if you're going to find some good edibles. Make a camping trip out of it.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Ran-D]
#14579801 - 06/08/11 01:23 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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that's a really good question depends on how many species/habitats you go after i drive 20-30 minutes a few times a week when the weather is good i would travel further if i was going to camp ...and i usually look regardless of where i am
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: masspan]
#14579877 - 06/08/11 01:42 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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For a day trip, 3-4 Hr drive is my max... And should be worth it
I have driven, recently, over 370 miles in a day of hunting... But came home with several pounds of morels.....
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: HarryL]
#14579962 - 06/08/11 02:02 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I live about 4-5 hours away from the native psilocybe azurescens habitat and sure I shit I am willing to drive that far for the worlds most potent psilocybe! 
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
#14580031 - 06/08/11 02:18 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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My favorite spot for spring edibles is Mccloud, California, 5 hours away. I go pretty often, ,aybe this weekend and definitely next weekend.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#14580068 - 06/08/11 02:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i rarely travel more than 30 minutes. i will walk/hunt all day though.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: TheDrake]
#14580496 - 06/08/11 03:46 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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How far is far away 4 me personally ? Last year i would of said most places . This year Ive managed to acquire a car , so not as many places any more . Im looking forward to less traveling and more hunting this season!
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hungrygoldfish


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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Spilalot]
#14580710 - 06/08/11 04:35 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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My old patch was a 45 min walk away, now since moving I'm about 5-10 minutes away from lib fields.
This autumn I'm not going to need to travel for more than an hour to get to a hunting ground as I'm based in the Peaks.
Including the distance covered in the actual hunt itself I don't think that I would walk for more than 11-12 miles in a day but with a car that distance is increased.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: hungrygoldfish]
#14580755 - 06/08/11 04:45 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i drive a good 3hrs to my c.smithii spot  For them its WELL worth it I mainly stay pretty close to home but i do spend a shit ton $ on gas - specially this yr Its all worth it when you   I plan on making a trip to mexico ( if not so nutz with terror ) and im also planning a trip n the very near future to the PNW Happy Hunting and Happy Travels everyone
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: sporeRider]
#14580931 - 06/08/11 05:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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masspan
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: FeelsGoodMan]
#14581126 - 06/08/11 06:03 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: masspan]
#14581165 - 06/08/11 06:13 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i have 4 patches all within 20 minutes walk of me and im sure there are alot more around where i live usually i bike it for 5 minutes pick around 40-50 gs wet from each patch and go home only takes half an hour at max to get 20 grams dried i might be lucky but in australia they are everywhere my mate went to stay with his grand parents and went to the park just down the street so he could have a joint and he found a patch with hundreds of subbs
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: masspan]
#14581737 - 06/08/11 08:31 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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masspan said: that's a really good question depends on how many species/habitats you go after i drive 20-30 minutes a few times a week when the weather is good i would travel further if i was going to camp ...and i usually look regardless of where i am
i am always hunting too man! even while driving. 
but i did wish i had the time and means to really hit the moutnains.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: psylosymonreturns]
#14581825 - 06/08/11 08:47 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i am always hunting too man! even while driving. 
Oh sooooooo true man ive been car hunting for a LONG TIME too
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: sporeRider]
#14581874 - 06/08/11 08:58 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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wiscokid said:
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i am always hunting too man! even while driving. 
Oh sooooooo true man ive been car hunting for a LONG TIME too
ya for certain things. it must be nice to do that where there is cubes.
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Sobercolober
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: psylosymonreturns]
#14585178 - 06/09/11 11:56 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cool, nice responses. I am thinking that 1.5 hour drives might be on the cards this year to hit some new potentially good spots. It depends really as the season is fairly short and it depends what other stuff I have on for any given day. i.e. work. Would you drive for 1.5 hours for a spot that "looks good" but could be a red herring ? I suppose you have to put the time in to find new fruiting places which is also good fun as well. I defo look out of the car when safe to do so at likely habitats, retracing where they were on a map can be a bit tricky (remembering landmarks etc.) I would love a spot on the doorstep but sadly have never spotted an active anywhere near where I live despite long walks and lots of looking about. I might be paying more attention to looking for cyans this year now I know they exist and roughly what they look like.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Sobercolober]
#14585209 - 06/09/11 12:04 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Max is about 4 hours, but typically between 20 and 45 minutes.
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Would you drive for 1.5 hours for a spot that "looks good" but could be a red herring ?
If there's other spots in the vicinity (or there are likely to be) and the scenery is nice, then yes.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Sobercolober]
#14586050 - 06/09/11 03:05 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sobercolober said: Would you drive for 1.5 hours for a spot that "looks good" but could be a red herring ?
During the winter I drove 2 hours to the bay for cyans and didn't find a damn thing... Still had fun though
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Ran-D]
#14589651 - 06/10/11 09:51 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's about a 1 hour drive to get to the paddocks I pick cubes in. Have to go at night too because its so close to a farmers house. Its nice though. Some evenings we would arive around 1am and it would be so thick with fog that you couldn't see 10m in front of you. Spend maybe 3 hours picking a 100m x 100m field and head home.
Picking at night is fun.
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UK Explorer
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: mrckb]
#14590325 - 06/10/11 12:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I always wondered about picking at night... doesn't the torch or whatever show you up and make you look like a burglar or cattle rustler or something?
Had a freaky experience at our local sacred spot last season when out of light and trying to squeeze in an end of season pick, all manner of spooky heebie jeebie goings on in the mist soon had us abandoning the mission! -Don't fancy trying that again any time soon 
As for the travelling, in a motor I'd usually venture one and a half hours away, though lucky in a way that work takes me all over so if get done in good time can hot foot it to promising looking spots local to position.
A five hour trek with the fuel prices over here would need nearly a weeks wages for some!
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: UK Explorer]
#14590356 - 06/10/11 12:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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When I was living out of town (where I live now) for 6 months I found myself driving 3 hours north every other week to go hunting (and to see my girlfriend) but if there was no girlfriend in the picture I would have done it anyway 
Typically I'll make daily trips of up to an hour during the grow season with the occasional long stretch of 2 hours to get to my fav. C. Cornucopioides spots.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: UK Explorer]
#14593016 - 06/10/11 09:48 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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UK Explorer said: I always wondered about picking at night... doesn't the torch or whatever show you up and make you look like a burglar or cattle rustler or something?
We use a dim lantern or iPhones if needed but you can usually see pretty well with the moonlight if its a clear night. It works.
Only time we've had to leg it was when the farmer was coming home at 3am and stopped out side the entrance to the field. My stomach dropped. We had to wade through a swamp bit to get to the far fence which is electrified and shimmy under. We made it out with out being caught. Soo close though.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: mrckb]
#14593071 - 06/10/11 09:56 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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We use a dim lantern or iPhones if needed but you can usually see pretty well with the moonlight if its a clear night. It works.
Only time we've had to leg it was when the farmer was coming home at 3am and stopped out side the entrance to the field. My stomach dropped. We had to wade through a swamp bit to get to the far fence which is electrified and shimmy under. We made it out with out being caught. Soo close though.
Thats some sketchy shit man 
Glad you made it out and live today
Only cube/pan cyan hunting ive done was in Houston TX off of crazy bum-fuck dirt roads - - - - -i would NOT go there in the dark Longhorn steer will KILL YOU - THE FARMERS WILL SHOOT YOU - CRAZY water moccasins will BITE you - and man its a blessing when we actually made it out 3 times without any fuss and we actually had decent hauls - - -- - - - - - - - - still sketchy as hell - we had a farmers nephew chase us down on a 4wheeler - all he wanted was a handfull of the cubies we had tho -- wheewwwww --- and one time as we pulled away in my rental car - a crazy scary looking tow truck was RIGHT down the road heading pretty much FOR MY RENTAL   We'd of been FUCKED if our ride got towed - - - - - -- - - the dude who found the fields we went to in Houston also said he found two women's bodies ( dead n dresses )HOLY It is fun - but really not worth the risks We found other public parks that had cubes and pan cyans after 3 trips to that field
Stay safe fellas - a couple shroom trips aint worth dying for Happy Hunting
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: sporeRider]
#14594589 - 06/11/11 06:23 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Without wanting to derail from the original question too much I think us hunters in the UK have it easy with regards to the obstacles and pitfalls we face.
An angry farmer/ shepherd is about the most of it for us but our friends down under face deadly snakes and spiders, Eastern US Ovoid hunters face ticks, mosquitos and snakes....
Then there are the sketchy murderous characters out in the wilderness that Wiscokid alludes to!
Anybody encountered a Grizzly Bear on a hunt or anything else of note!?
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: UK Explorer]
#14594938 - 06/11/11 08:33 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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all manner of spooky heebie jeebie goings on in the mist soon had us abandoning the mission!
Spooky.. can you expand on that? Did you see Will 'o' the wisps ?
Copy the URL as it links wrong......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o'-the-wisp
I bet it was spine tingling, I would imagine it would be great looking under moonlight I defo might consider it but it has it's spooky drawbacks it seems.....
I get spooked hearing bird calls and other animal sounds in the morning mist as well.
It's cool we can drift around a bit off topic etc. I am easy as long as mods are cool. I dislike it when I find a really good looking spot on online, sheep, sedge grass, beautiful stream/small river flowing at one end of field, perfect looking place... and then you see many small used buildings nearby making it likely to look pretty odd being a sole dude wandering in the fields. : (
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Sobercolober]
#14595039 - 06/11/11 09:11 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I dislike it when I find a really good looking spot on online, sheep, sedge grass, beautiful stream/small river flowing at one end of field, perfect looking place... and then you see many small used buildings nearby making it likely to look pretty odd being a sole dude wandering in the fields. : (
Know that feeling. It gets that way with cyan hunting too- to many cars,people,public buildings and houses Not to mention cctv and the police I wouldnt be surprised if somebody ends up getting lifted this season.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Spilalot]
#14595086 - 06/11/11 09:29 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm considering driving 2+ hours, to wherever the rain has been falling, because it sure hasn't been falling here.
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Sobercolober
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Spilalot]
#14595088 - 06/11/11 09:29 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I wouldn't be surprised if somebody ends up getting lifted this season.
Still, there could be 20pct less police on the streets due to the cutbacks, hopefully the police will be justifying their existence by catching violent nutters instead of "collaring" peaceful dudes in anoraks walking in the nature. Though the sheep thefts and farm machinery thefts in the UK is a concern for nature walkers.
I have decided some 1.5 hours there and 1.5 hours back journeys are on the cards this year.
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Re: Hunting, location distances, how far is far away (4u personally|)?.... [Re: Sobercolober]
#14597170 - 06/11/11 06:05 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ooh I totally missed this thread. My travel time varies a lot my closest hunting ground is about 10mins away. The furthest is about 1.5 hours. I usually try to spend the entire day on hunts sometimes this is limited for some reason or another.
I will probably travel further in the future, I am pretty lucky with my local though, as there is endless bushland/forest around me. I am contemplating a Mexico mushroom hunting trip next year as I have a mate that will be living over there.
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