With the rising gas prices what adjustments are people making with plans for hunting trips, scouting, and hunting for this fall.
You gotta do what you gotta do. We took a chevy cobalt with a weeks worth of gear and food for 2 of us. 32mpg average
I'll still take my Tacoma come my main hunt in November but I'll be taking my carolla anytime I need to scout. I get a legit 18 mpg overall in the mountains with the Tacoma and that includes pulling the camper and hauling a 600 pound 4 wheeler in the back. I get an honest overall 29.7 mpg with the carolla. I'm planning on camping closer to my hunting sites and walking more to offset the price of gas.
I will cut back on other things before I cut back on my hunting. Like eating out, driving to friends houses, any social life..... lol
I should've prefaced my statement by saying I recently traded my F-250 diesel towards an F-150 and a Toyota Camry.....I have a truck when necessary for work and hauling the boat, and a car for daily driving....So my choice in vehicles kind of eliminated any need to cut back in driving. I went from over $100/week in fuel to less than $50 now.....the savings I get over the next 5 months will more than pay for my fuel spent hunting this fall.
Ah, high gas prices... I'm not driving my truck the 225 miles to Rend Lake today. Pulling a pontoon boat. Against the wind. Normally the truck gets 11 mpg pulling that beast. Today it will be lucky to make it from gas station to gas station. But I'm not driving it. Kendall is. I have to drive another guy and his boat down to Rend tomorrow. He has a Tundra and a smaller boat. It will be interesting to see what kind of mileage we get with that set up.
It wont slow me down now, but as bow season progresses I work less and less over time, and by the middle of November it catches up to me and the little woman says you need to work more, for Christmas. Most years I have done my damage on a buck by then. But on those years I dont it gets hairy by Thanksgiving!
The rising gas prices have negatively affected my scouting since early March. I won't have much hunting time this fall so gas prices won't affect anything hunting wise.
The high diesel prices have greatly effected my Income with my milk hauling business but In all honesty the high gas prices won't have an effect on my hunting.
tembry said it best none. my public grounds are 140 miles round trip from home but I'll still put close to 10k on my tundra this season between my lease which is 400 miles each way, scouting, and public grounds. As the summer gets close I cut off most of my indulgences coffee, eating out, impulse buys, and I work as much ot as I can. I make and plan my hunting budget starting Jan 16th.
My spot is 140 miles round trip. I don't think it will effect my hunting but I'm def making less trips checking cams and such. I also might have my hunting buddies chip in a little more for gas than I have in the past. There's basically three of us who hunt the same spot so I thought if we all started kicking in $5 bucks a week, by hunting season we will have a pretty good gas fund going. Blessings.....Pastorjim
my honey hole is about 90 miles each way, but my 2wd chevy pickup gets pretty good gas milage. I may be staying over the night more come this season...
No change here - just might let my Dad drive a few more times I'm a numbers guy - and some simple math shows that for most it has very little impact. Let's say an average mileage for hunting is 3000 miles (no doubt many do more, but many also less). Truck gets 15mpg, that's 200 gallons of fuel for hunting. Gas goes from $3/gallon to $4/gallon...that's only $200 extra dollars in fuel costs - heck, some have bow sights that cost that. Like many have said - don't eat out a few times...there's $200. The upside to higher fuel - big SUV/Truck prices come down
Gas prices will not affect my big game hunting but it already has affected my waterfowl and predator hunting. I went on just a few waterfowl trips this year. Usually we start in October, and besides a couple of weeks of big game we go waterfowling at least twice a week all the way until the middle of Febuary. That's a good solid 4 months of a couple of hundred bucks a week for gas. I'm out. I can't afford it anymore. Maybe when the economy comes back but not this year.
Most of my hunting is done either behind my house or within a 1/2 mile. It won't affect my hunting much, but my nightly glassing in the summer will get cut down to a couple trips a week.
Just starting picking up weekend hours at work as one of my weekend therapists just quit. I make $10 more per hour just by working Sat/Sun!!! Also, we just purchased my parents old car. It is a 2007 Chevy Impala. I did not expect decent gas mileage out of midsize car, but we are averaging a little over 30 during the week and 36 on driving trips! I guess Dad did a good thing by changing oil every 2000 miles (crazy) or something. Putting the extra money I am making on weekends, like today, aside for the Fall. Well, better get back to getting these patients stronger so they can get home and off of the internet.
