What’s your hunting rig?

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I would be lost without a pickup. I bought my first in 1982 at 17 years old. I have owned seven trucks and have never been without one.
1) 73 Chevy
2) 82 Toyota
3) 87 Toyota
4) 91 Dodge Dakota (everyone can make one mistake).
5) 95 GMC (my favorite PU)
6) 02 GMC
7) 11 Chevy (current ride)

I have to say that GM trucks are my favorite but would consider a Tacoma.
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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.
I’m hearing you say that you could stuff stormy’s trunk ?
 
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
 

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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
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!
 
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.

I was in much the same situation back in '02. Newly married with one vehicle and it was a single cab Tacoma.
I was able to drive a company truck home and the wife drove the Taco, so we made it okay.
Then shortly after we got married, we had a little one on the way. The single cab Tacoma had to go.
Unlike you, I missed it terribly. To make matters worse the guy who bought it from the lot I traded it to lived less than a mile from me, so I had to see it drive by every now and then.

Thankfully we're in a much better situation now, and I bought a new Tacoma in 2012. It's paid for now with only 128k on it, so I'm planning on driving it till the wheels fall off, then going to the dealership and saying, "I'll take another one."

For the OP, I guess that it's my hunting rig, a 2012 Tacoma extended cab Pre-Runner.
It's just a 2x4, but if I need to go somewhere where a 4x4 is needed, I've got a Honda Rancher 4x4 for that. The ATV is probably more of my hunting rig than the truck.


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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.
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.
My current deer hunting rig is a 2 wheel drive explorer with mud tires. It drives through creeks and up muddy hills.
My diesel sits at home unless I really need 4x4.
 
Went out scouting yesterday and again today.
Yesterday (Buck Creek) :cool: we saw zero sign up in the hills, no fresh trails, tracks , noda Everything’s down low..
Today we headed up to ( Bear Creek) :D then spur left on the 6305A slowly to the top then quietly and slowly working down reading some fresh tracks on the side hill we stopped for a better look.... about three layers back in the timber ‘sure enough a couple nice white tail doe starring at us. Then a couple moments later something black moved off to the right....

A nice Bull Moose gave us a full side view before he decided to move across our position than up and gone gone.
Very nice morning
J
 
Wish I could find a picture of my first truck and deer. 1948 International Harvester, candy apple Burgundy with metalflake, chrome stacks, six cylinder, 3 speed, paid $23 for it, put much more into it......drove it all thru High School. Got about 25 miles to the "quart" of oil. Looked like a diesel rig going down the road with smoke blowing out the stacks.

Have a photo somewhere standing in the back with one of my first deer.

Pulled this photo off the web to give you an idea what it looked like.


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Haven't gotten this one to the track yet...still a bit of a work in progress. Was an old drag car when we bought it. And was stripped down to bare bones,, i.e 1 seat, no interior, lights, wipers, radio, heater or any weight adders lol. Just a little 340, rmvb 727 and 8.75 rear. Been getting in back together over the years as we find parts. It runs pretty good though.
 
Still trying to wear them out.

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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.:)
 
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.:)


That was out my 'backdoor'. I'd say Prius could have sufficed for about 99% of my hunting.
 
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