How much does gas effect your hobby?
04-16-2008, 01:46 PM
#22
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 119
RE: How much does gas effect your hobby?
ORIGINAL: HNI_Christine
Let's see, here's some of the plans for the summer.
Go to Rend Lake this weekend. 450 miles round trip. Truck gets 11 mpg pulling the boat plusgas for the boat and generator.
Go to St Louis week after. 370 miles round trip. Pulling the boat again.
Go to KY lake the next weekend. 650 miles round trip. Again with the boat.
Go to Chicagoland weekend after that. 320 miles. Boat maybe. (I get about 9 mpg in the city)
Blah, blah, blah. Lots more driving all summer. Even headed to Chesapeake Bay to shoot stingrays... pulling the boat. Blah, blah, expensive, blah, blah.
I'm going to go broke, but I'll have lots of fish to eat. [:-][:-][:-]
Let's see, here's some of the plans for the summer.
Go to Rend Lake this weekend. 450 miles round trip. Truck gets 11 mpg pulling the boat plusgas for the boat and generator.
Go to St Louis week after. 370 miles round trip. Pulling the boat again.
Go to KY lake the next weekend. 650 miles round trip. Again with the boat.
Go to Chicagoland weekend after that. 320 miles. Boat maybe. (I get about 9 mpg in the city)
Blah, blah, blah. Lots more driving all summer. Even headed to Chesapeake Bay to shoot stingrays... pulling the boat. Blah, blah, expensive, blah, blah.
I'm going to go broke, but I'll have lots of fish to eat. [:-][:-][:-]
04-16-2008, 01:51 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manassas, VA
Posts: 3,612
RE: How much does gas effect your hobby?
I just filled my truck up for $85....good god. I know it has affected me alot recently. I haven't done as much scouting, fishing because of the gas prices. It will cost me around $10 of gas just head down the lake to fish...that is ridiculous.
04-16-2008, 01:54 PM
#24
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Posts: 3,465
RE: How much does gas effect your hobby?
Not at all. When gas digs in to my pocket, i give up other things long before hunting. Take the girlfriend out less, etc.
I mow and make alot of dough for someone my age though, so it hasn't really effected me at all really. I dont see how my friend drives, after only making 5.60 after taxes. He works like 30+ hours a week too.[:'(]
I work MAYBE 15 hours a week on average, work for myself on my own schedule, will keep the money part to myself, and conveniently have no job during the fall and winter months, which coinsides perfectly with hunting seasons. It does really cut into my afternoon turkey hunts tho, such as today.[:@]
I mow and make alot of dough for someone my age though, so it hasn't really effected me at all really. I dont see how my friend drives, after only making 5.60 after taxes. He works like 30+ hours a week too.[:'(]
I work MAYBE 15 hours a week on average, work for myself on my own schedule, will keep the money part to myself, and conveniently have no job during the fall and winter months, which coinsides perfectly with hunting seasons. It does really cut into my afternoon turkey hunts tho, such as today.[:@]
04-16-2008, 02:02 PM
#25
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 21,043
RE: How much does gas effect your hobby?
I am blessed to drive a company truck with company gas included. I also put fewer miles on my truck than most (it's a 2003).....and most of my hunting is done walking out my back door.
The cost of gas won't affect my hunting one bit.
The cost of gas won't affect my hunting one bit.
04-16-2008, 02:24 PM
#26
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: May 2005
Location: One mile east of West Podunk Tx
Posts: 5,973
RE: How much does gas effect your hobby?
I'm making a 12 hour drive to New Mexico tomorrow to chase Merriams. It is making me pay more attention. For the last 3 years I have hunted within 1/2 an hour from home. I got 2 new places to hunt, one is 1/2 an hour one is 4 hours. As Murphy's Law would have it the better property is the 4 hour drive. I may not spend as many days in the woods so I'll have to spend smarter days in the woods.
04-16-2008, 02:24 PM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Wentzville, MO
Posts: 1,375
RE: How much does gas effect your hobby?
It will definitely affect my summer boating,but not my hunting. If you think you cringe when filling up your full-size truck try filling up an 85 gallon tank at .50 over whatever it is on land.
04-16-2008, 02:36 PM
#28
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: How much does gas effect your hobby?
It effects me allot!! I own a trucking out fit and the diesel prices have limited my funds way to much!! My hunting out of state is at a stand still untill this diesel price can mellow out. It sucks!!!!!![:@]
