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Gas prices affecting your hunting?

muddy

muddy

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This question was brought up a year or two ago when gas prices were in the mid $2 range.

How will $4 a gallon gas affect your hunting and scouting?

I already am not checking my trail camera as much and I have yet to take a sunset cruise to look for bachelor groups in the evening. The evening drive was almost a daily occurance last year and will probably become a once a week practice now.
 
Hunting season will be a major relief for my gas consumption.

Try running kids to two different towns for ball games everynight. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Your day is coming Muddy! /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif
 
I'm lucky I'm still single, gas prices will affect my food consumption before it affects my hunting. I'm pretty sure I can live off venison for quite awhile.
 
Gas prices will be affecting alot things for alot of people.

Prices are going up way too much and our salaries are not. I have not even put my cameras up yet because it cost over $100.00 each time to check mine.

Debating on whether to keep putting food plots in with those prices going up also.

Bad thing is it is not going down anytime soon.
 
This flood is going to have a major affect on prices this coming year. Not only is it going to raise fuel prices, it's going to raise costs on everything else we purchase daily. Up to 10% of corn ground in Iowa, and up to 20% of bean ground has been lost to flooding or inability to plant because of moisture. Illinois and Indiana are the same way..........Corn and bean prices are going to sky rocket this coming year making everything we use to maintain our daily lifestyles that much more expensive. It's gonna be U G L Y !!!!!
 
Try $6 a gallon.. I'd also like to know what you guys pay for a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread. To say this "strong Saskatchewan Economy" is going to put a hurt on what I do this yr is a grotesque understatement.
 
Sask,

A gallon of milk here is about $4.00, If you get the cheap white bread probally around $1.25. Everything is going to go up this year with oil prices and the wide spread flooding of the midwest.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ghost</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Hunting season will be a major relief for my gas consumption.
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/forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif I think your hunting situation is very different than most of the guys on here Ghostie. If I were to walk out my back door the only thing I could maybe harvest is the neighbors rat terriors!


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Try running kids to two different towns for ball games everynight. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Your day is coming Muddy! /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif
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I honestly can't wait. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> A gallon of milk here is about $4.00, If you get the cheap white bread probally around $1.25</div></div>

We're looking at about $5.00 a gallon and $2.00 a cheap loaf....and we're producing most of it. It is brutal,....oh yeah, booze....my wife bought me a big jug of whiskey when in Minot in may...I can buy 3 of them there for the price of one here.
 
it has cut into all that i do. i cant go to the lake as often, so i sit around the house and watch hunting and fishing videos so i can live vicariously...... /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

This fall will be different, my scouting trips will have to be twice as effective because when it comes time to hunt, i will need to be spot on as i wont be making as many trips.....


i hate gas prices right now!!!
 
I can say this, If it weren't for the floods preventing me from boating, gas prices would be. Gas on the water on memorial day weekend, was 4.95 a gallon!!!

As far as reducing my hunting, it did convince me to purchase a small crafty trailer to put on my land so that I wouldn't drive 90 miles back and forth every day all fall!!!! It will reduce camera card checking, but once Fall gets here and buck start shedding, I am willing to wager that I forget all about the price at the pump and I smile just the same when I whack a doe, or buck for that matter!
 
Saskguy said:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> oh yeah, booze....my wife bought me a big jug of whiskey when in Minot in may...I can buy 3 of them there for the price of one here.</div></div>

That's why we truck in our own beer when we come up fishing. Still cheaper to buy it her for $15/case and pay the duty.

What's a liter of whiskey go for up there? Jack Daniels or Windsor?
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30 some bucks!
 
Alright Karre, get the wife into bootleggin in some Whiskey for you and your friends so you can support your hunting /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

I gave up Trap and Sporting Clays when gas hit $2.25 to help adjust the amount I spend on hunting/scouting.

Im thinking this summer, scouting trips will be reduced. Definatly limited to only property that I can hunt instead of entire townships. I am thinking about trust my judgement on stand placement, and "going by the book" more.

Dean
 
Muddy, this is a great topic.

Gas prices have not affected my hunting, in fact in the last 3 years since I've began bow hunting my expenses have been much higher and I have been able to equip myself with all of the necessary things to be a successful bowhunter (thanks to graduating from college, getting a job, etc.). I have had to sacrifice something though: my social life. I used to really like to get after it in school, but hunting obviously takes priority over that so I stay in a lot more, don't throw the debit card down on the bar and have it open to all my friends as much, and I have been able to stay comfortable financially. Ask me again when gas is $6 a gallon, my answer will have probably changed!
 
P.S. I bought a new truck last year when gas was still $2 a gallon and I about flipped out when I filled it up and it was $55. Yesterday I filled up and it was $96...OUCH! I may be trading in for a smaller pickup that gets better miles just so I can still afford my bowhunting equipment, so I guess that affects my hunting in a way!
 
My big pig 2500 HD Duramax diesel turned into a Chevy Colorado... /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
Just some rough figures...at $4.00 a gallon I'll spend $400 - $600 dollars in fuel just traveling to and from local hunting areas in Oct and Nov. Throw in the long trip I do and it'll be somewhere around $700 - $800 for the bowseason. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif I might have to pull the camper and do some overnighters locally....which won't bother me one bit. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

I'll complain a little, but it's not gonna keep me out of the timber. Good thing the overtime list is rolling over fast this year.
 
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