work, family, the fact that it take 3.5 hours to get to the place where I hunt, etc... we hunt birds most every weekend (or try to, and we can do it much closer to home), but we only have a 9-day rifle season here anyway, and the first weekend is shot for me, so I just have the second weekend this year. in a couple more years I'll have better places nearby to hunt (developing a 40acre parcel with my dad) but for now I have to trek out to the middle of nowhere.