Does the price of fuel impact your hunting plans?

[The Hedgehog]

just curious..

 

[Deleted member 18333]

no

 

[jdf]

Negative

 

[BuzzH]

No...and if it did, I probably wouldn't drive to the Mexico border to hunt a coues deer.

 

[andrew11]

Nope.

 

[TLowell02]

It might affect scouting trips or reduce the amount of small game travel but negative on affecting big game hunts.

 

[EYJONAS!]

Come hell or high water I'm going.

 

[BlakeA]

No.

 

[devon deer]

How much are you paying for petrol/diesel?
I guarantee it isn't as much as I'm paying!
$7.30/gallon diesel
Cheers
Richard

 

[Chad Gus]

My balls get bigger and my standards get lower the higher the gas prices go

 

[Wild Bill]

No.

A friend and I had a little convo about the price of gas the other day.
I am fairly young (30) and made a joke that complaining/commenting on the price of gas is something older generations do. I can't remember ever really having an real concern about prices of gas and it's something I rarely ever talk about with friends. On the other hand, I can't drive past a gas station with my dad (62) without him at least mentioning the price or comparing it to the last town.
Is this really a generational thing? I know I haven't lived through any rationing or anything like that and in my lifetime and have had fairly stable prices. I can recall seeing $4-$5/gal at times but maybe I was too young for it to matter.

 

[bigsky2]

No

 

[KB_]

It is what it is...

On the other hand I drive a 3/4 ton ford with a v10. Obviously not worried about gas prices lol.

 

[JLS]

Might be generational? I remember gas for well under a dollar a gallon. It seems like the lowest I remember was southern Wyoming. The highest I remember was paying $5 a gallon for diesel in the mid 2000s (07?).

As to the OPs question, no it likely won’t affect my plans, other than maybe bird hunting closer to home when possible.

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Not at these prices. If we get back to $4-5/gal I'll think about it more than I do now.

 

[npaden]

I am much more likely to leave my toy hauler at my friends in Wyoming for a month or two instead of pulling it back home when fuel is $4 a gallon. Might decide to bring a tent instead of the toy hauler if fuel is that high as well. Wouldn't change whether I was going on the hunt though.

The pain in the pocketbook is more than double pulling a trailer for me. 8 mpg instead of 18 mpg pulling my trailer vs. not. Not a big deal at $2 fuel, but at $4 fuel it starts to get pricey.

If fuel prices jump and things get somewhat back to normal from a COVID perspective the number of used travel trailers hitting the market will be amazing.

 

[deer_shooter]

If it got back to the $4/gal or more I may pare back to one trip a year or do a combo hunt or something. My average trip logs about 4000 miles so at 18mph, that's approx. 225 gallons per trip.

 

[JLS]

the number of used travel trailers hitting the market will be amazing.

I’m hoping to see that.

 

[TOGIE]

hasn't yet, don't think it will this fall

when thinking about hunting places that will require a lot of gas it's generally the non resident tag price that's going to be the determining factor

 

[Doublecluck]

Yes, My biggest business cost outside labor is fuel. We drive about 100k miles a year and in the past fuel has certainly played a role in how profitable we can be which directly effects how much and where we hunt. If 25,000 in yearly fuel costs became 50,000 for 250k a year company thats one hell of a hunt or hunts I could have gone on.