I’m hearing you say that you could stuff stormy’s trunk ?View attachment 947486 It’s not much but it gets 36 miles per gallon and fits the family. My Tacoma couldn’t do either one so I got rid of it and haven’t really missed it as much as I thought I would. My current “rig” is a 2015 accord EX-L v6 with 63000 miles on it. I call it Stormy... I bought it at a certain time when that name made sense because it was paid off, quick, and easy. 2 deer will fit in the trunk, I haven’t done it with this particular car, but I have in one very similar. I have no objections to doing so again.
Wouldnt that fall under road hazard?The wife and I were out scouting last night , on the way back to town three white tails decided to Kamakazi into on coming traffic!
Well the first one gets blasted sending it first in the air then sliding like a hockey puck towards my Jeep in the opposite far right lane, well seeing it unfold I’m already near a stop when Bamm this deer hits my left rear tire.. ok no big deal I just drive up an over the carcass and continue home only to discover a near flat tire ? WTH
Further investigation reveals a small chunk of bone has pierced my new tire.
Damn the bad luck
Sorry to hear about your flat and what might have been much worse!The wife and I were out scouting last night , on the way back to town three white tails decided to Kamakazi into on coming traffic!
Well the first one gets blasted sending it first in the air then sliding like a hockey puck towards my Jeep in the opposite far right lane, well seeing it unfold I’m already near a stop when Bamm this deer hits my left rear tire.. ok no big deal I just drive up an over the carcass and continue home only to discover a near flat tire ? WTH
Further investigation reveals a small chunk of bone has pierced my new tire.
Damn the bad luck
It’s not much but it gets 36 miles per gallon and fits the family. My Tacoma couldn’t do either one so I got rid of it and haven’t really missed it as much as I thought I would.
That would be nice, how would I knowWouldnt that fall under road hazard?
About 90% of a vehicle's ability in snow is because of the tires. I ran snow tires on a short bed 2 wheel drive with a locker that went better than a 4x4 with all seasons.I feel the same way about the 2018 Dodge I bought last year - the first Chrysler product I've ever had even though I bought my first motor vehicle 58 years ago. Anyway, my Dodge Ram pickup truck is great on the highway and in town - averages better than 23 mpg, and it's powerful "enough" for anything I want to do with it.
On the other hand, my wife and I were on a icy/snowy road with it up in the hills deer hunting last year. I had it in 4WD, and I didn't realize just how slippery the hill we were going up was until I had to stop because there was a Jeep Wrangler coming down the hill, and the road was very narrow. I was going to try to back down to a wide spot we had just passed, but as soon as I started to back up, I lost control, and there was nothing I could do. I even put the truck back in drive, and with all four wheels churning forward, the truck kept sliding backwards down the hill until it slid off into the barrow pit.
The two hunters in the Jeep (that watched the whole thing) had no trouble stopping though, even though they were headed downhill in the first place. And once our truck had slid off, they walked on down to help. It wouldn't have been much of a problem for those two nice guys to chain their Jeep to a tree, and use their winch to pull our Dodge back onto the road, except for the fact the front end of our Dodge is all plastic and we couldn't find a place to hook onto it with a tow cable without tearing something all to pieces!
What we ended up doing was, those two guys helped me use shovels and axes to make paths for my truck tires so that I could get it back on the road. It took us about 2 hours, and I think each of us fell on our *&%^('s about 3 times!
Long story short - if I still like that Dodge by the time I get it paid off, I'm going to at least have a brush pusher with tow hooks mounted on the front of it. I might even have a winch put on it.
You're my type of guy. You don't need a truck if you got some rope.
I’m just gonna stay as far away from that as I can under extreme caution and fear that my wife ever reads this thread.I’m hearing you say that you could stuff stormy’s trunk ?
What's that hunting rid do in a quarter mile?
I clicked "like" for your post, and I don't have a 4-wheeler or any other kind of ATV either. However, even where we live, where our deer hunting is only 10 minutes away by pickup-truck, if those things were my only hunting "rig," I would be spending the better part of the day hiking back and forth rather than hunting. Besides that, I'd feel mighty silly dragging a dead deer down a country road, even if the deer was in my game cart.
I clicked "like" for your post, and I don't have a 4-wheeler or any other kind of ATV either. However, even where we live, where our deer hunting is only 10 minutes away by pickup-truck, if those things were my only hunting "rig," I would be spending the better part of the day hiking back and forth rather than hunting. Besides that, I'd feel mighty silly dragging a dead deer down a country road, even if the deer was in my game cart.
Beautiful country though.