Gas/Fuel Price and hunting plans

[dan.kirkpatrick]

yep,i wouldnt even trade my 2004 5.9 for a brand new truck,,i dont want all the def and emission garbage on the new ones,,at 145 k ,my 5.9 has just gotten broke in

 

[dan.kirkpatrick]

with diesel high,i just try to only use it on hunting trips to keep the milage down on it to about 5 k a year,,i drive my taco as a daily driver

 

[Wild Bill]

Having never driven before the global war on terror, I've never considered gas to be reasonably priced. It's always sucked. But this is the most painful I've ever seen. And as a new dad I can confirm the cost of everything indeed makes it tough, but we still have room to tighten up if we needed to. Seeing folks talk about the price of daycare is scaring me though, because that's coming soon. Thankfully my wife and I are not spenders. I almost never buy gear, guns or anything I don't truly need to do what I want. It's often uncomfortable and inconvenient but that money goes toward gas and securing a tag. Anytime I see folks in expensive hunting clothes I can't help but see a price tag. While I'm wet and cold in 20 year old cotton blends.

Not gonna get any easier, but you’ll get smarter. We’ve got three under six and can’t wait to get outta daycare. We’re frugal and prioritize savings/retirement heavily.

Right now, everything feels tight. I can tell my wife is stressed out about it by the way she goes on about groceries and utilities costing what they do. And because she tells me it’s stressing her out.

Sucks having to imagine 2 more years of this bush league administration.

 

[F250]

Wife and I are headed to Northern Quebec this morning for a week of walleye fishing. $1.95. per liter is going to sting !!

 

[NoWiser]

My dad and cousin drew late AZ elk tags. The idea was brought up today, by them, to turn in the tags and stick closer to home. I’m not sure if that’ll happen, but fuel prices are the factor that started the conversation.

 

[NR_Hunter]

There will be a weekend this fall where I will be feeling lazy and say the reason I hunted around home instead driving 2 hours was because of gas prices and not my lack of motivation.

 

[Boarmaster]

Higher fuel prices more limit my everyday and weekly planning. I try and plan a bit better to make sure I’m not needlessly running back and forth across the county and joy riding around just for something to do. I cant always control it but if possible I try and schedule business in the same area and day. I find with a little planning I am saving about a tank to a tank and half a month in my truck. More than enough to pay the extra fuel costs for my five or six hunting trips that are 8-9 hrs away from home. Even if I wouldnt have cut back on everyday fuel cost I would be going. I’m not letting anything keep me from the thing I wait for every years. If it effects anything it effects my other purchases that I dont need just want. Like new hunting clothes, crap for the cabin, rifles, scopes and other things I just blow money on. I got plenty of rifles and ammo to kill more deer than I can in two lifetimes so I just need to get there.

 

[brockel]

$342 for 11 months in between fill was the actual number

@Nick87 found the bill for the year

 

[Nick87]

@Nick87 found the bill for the year
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Blows my mind. Glad for you though.

 

[cgasner1]

One guy at work “I’m not sped ing 500 dollars in fuel to go elk hunting for 2 days” other guy “I love how pist off the bowhunters get while I drive around in my sxs” I’m hoping some staggered opening days and cost of fuel comes into effect for pressure as I start getting ready for my out of state elk hunt

 

[mtmuley]

One guy at work “I’m not sped ing 500 dollars in fuel to go elk hunting for 2 days” other guy “I love how pist off the bowhunters get while I drive around in my sxs” I’m hoping some staggered opening days and cost of fuel comes into effect for pressure as I start getting ready for my out of state elk hunt

I never see anyone hunting from a SxS. Driving maybe. mtmuley

 

[Nick87]

One guy at work “I’m not sped ing 500 dollars in fuel to go elk hunting for 2 days

Hell I can get there for less than that.

 

[cgasner1]

I never see anyone hunting from a SxS. Driving maybe. mtmuley

One guy thinks he is hunting from it. The other is just strictly recreational sxs guy it’s their thing

 

[Bowmannate2000]

Just put E85 in my truck. Felt like a sin. $1.07 less per gallon though.

 

[cgasner1]

Hell I can get there for less than that.

2 tanks of diesel couple in the sxs and whatever else

 

[DFS]

@Nick87 found the bill for the year
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Takes me about 3 times that but my house isn’t built to be very efficient.

 

[Switchback00]

Just a leeeeeeeeeeetle bit of pain.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Just got back from Reno towing our 5er 800+ miles round trip and last fill in Reno was $7.09 a gallon.

 

[corndog1]

I plan on spending an absurd amount of money on fuel this hunting season. And I don't give dern.

 

[mdhunter]

I was told once “you can’t drive your way to prosperity”.

That quote was for work vehicles and people trying smudge their numbers. I think it applies to everyday life as well.

There are a lot of ways to get rich. Saving a couple of bucks on fuel isn’t one of them.