Are gasoline prices affecting your shooting?

[JohnD13]

The club is three miles from home so gas isn't a big deal. Shooting a lot more .22's lately though.

 

[BP Hunter]

I think the gas price has affected everything - less drive to hear and there, use the Tundra less, spend less on ammo, etc. It gets worse.

 

[ForumSurfer]

You can bet your bottom dollar that gas prices are affecting my shooting habits. I can walk to where I shoot...but I drive everywhere else. One way or another, the extra $50 a month on gas is limiting my shooting.

 

[ms6852]

I normally stock up on ammo every pay period. As it stands I have several years of different calibers in my safe if....I only use it for hunting as the season dictates. I normally use about half a box 3 rounds to check my zero and I shoot a couple of extra rounds at a rock several hundred yards away 635 exactly according to the laser. Just like to see if I still got it, and normally it only takes one round to drop my deer or elk.

A few months ago I would fill up with about $70 bucks my truck holds 35 gallons and normally I filler up at half a tank now for about the same amount. It is a psychological thing but hurts less. The extra money that I would have used to fill up the tank is what I used to buy ammo, now it goes for gas. Like most I shoot more rimfire.

 

[Average Joe]

No, its the cost of ammo, that's affecting my shooting.

 

[Neverwinter]

Yes, I go to the closer range rather than the better range.

Thanks a lot, oil speculators!

 

[Sauer Grapes]

While gas prices aren't pleasant, that's been the least of my problems. Keeping myself employed has been the real challenge the past couple years. My gun club is only 5 miles away, but the price of reloading components has been an issue.

 

[Ignition Override]

No, but flooding water has stopped it for a while at the river, where lots of people go.
The range clubhouse is probably flooded also, as it was a year ago.

Lots of retired guys and others were at the range recently, with fuel prices within pennies of where prices are now.

 

[blackspyder]

Oh yeah, I've cut back on shooting a lot in the last 2 years. When I bought my F150 it was $50 twice a week now it's $80 twice a week. Just bought a little VW Jetta to ease the pain. The Jetta won't make it to my range.