How do you balance your hobbies?

[teamacacia]

I have two hobbies that are both time-consuming and cash-consuming and they are golf and guns/shooting. I'd just like to know how y'all balance your hobbies (both time and money-wise) as I am having a bit of a difficult time deciding what to do...
I pay for a local golf club membership so I really need to play a minimum of once per week and go to the range 1-2x/week just to pay for itself. I'm pretty good at the game but, much like shooting, it takes practice to stay on top of it. My concern is if I spend the time to keep my golf game up that my shooting skills will suffer and that could potentially be a bad deal in the unlikely event of an assault or self defense situation. How much time on a daily (or more likely weekly) basis should be sufficient for the average Joe to keep up his/her shooting skills? My current gun range time is 1-2x/month for 2-3 hours each session. Outside of the range, I don't really do much dry-firing, etc.

 

[okietool]

It sounds to me like your hobbies aren't as fun as they should be.
As far as shooting skills go, what level skills are you wanting to maintain?
I'm pretty much a casual shooter and golfer myself, so maintaining my skills means just go have fun. I'm pretty sure my self defense skills will stay where they need to be. It sounds to me like you shoot and golf more than I do.
When either/or stops being fun, I stop for a while.

 

[Zombie]

With cars as I have time and money
With guns and shooting as I have ammo and time and the little lady wants to go
Forums and computers quite a bit

I maintain enough breaks and variety not to be bored

 

[landman873]

I do them one at a time. My hobbies are kinda seasonal so that helps. But some are just a whenever type of deal. I have way to many and some haven't been touched in years.

 

[RWS]

golf = playing human fetch... by yourself.

throw away the silly little sticks and balls and you will have more time to shoot

 

[grwd]

I never considered shooting or being a firearms enthusiast, with needlepoint ,or golf.

 

[Perrone]

I don't balance my hobbies because I never get to do them. I have not been able to shoot fora few months now I think. No time, no money.

 

[gearys 5600]

I have too many hobbies to balance.

 

[djcorrell]

buy more ammo.

 

[338Shooter]

I don't balance my hobbies because I never get to do them. I have not been able to shoot fora few months now I think. No time, no money.

since that other guy got banned. I'll extend his offer to you myself.

If you can get away, PM me and we'll go do some shootin for cheap.