I save all my time for bow season usually, with the exception of one or two days off during spring turkey season. I unfortunately have to drive though.........my closest stand is 1.5 hours from home at my buddies place, and my place is almost 4 hours from home.

I will often sneak out of work at noon on a Friday though to get into a tree on Friday. To maximize my hunting time, my weekends are spent living out of my car it seems. Luckily my best bud and hunting partner is there with me for the whole thing though and we have a blast on our road trips. We leave directly from work with the car already packed from the night before, drive the 4 hours to my property in PA, hunt Friday night, Saturday morning and night, then after dark pack the car back up and head to his property in NY so that we can hunt all day on Sunday too.

We have to work hard to get the time we hunt, but last year I managed to be hunting every Saturday and Sunday there was a deer season open from the last weekend in Sept until Jan 15. I also put 27,000 miles on the car in the process between the hunting and general work at our camps in the offseason............thats the only place I drive other than to work and work in only 9 miles from home.