I am pretty lucky to have all my hunting spots within 10 miles of my home.With the gas sitiuation,are any of you driving a pretty long distance to turkey hunt and how will it affect your hunting spots,will you just hunt some of your closer spots or will the price of gas not matter to you?
I'm Hunting regardless of gas price.
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Pack a lunch and a sleeping bag...
Going hunting no matter what the gas prices are.
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Yep I think most turkey hunters will still go regardless of gas prices. And I'm sure some would even take out a loan to get through the season If they didn't have the money. It's that important.
Going to use my wives 4 runner and instead of my gas drinking Tundra.
For the most part, I am quitting. Thanks Joe.
It's just money. They print it every day
It will impact some, I am still going ahead with my plans but I may drive around in the areas I hunt a bit less?
When I hunt new areas I spend a few days driving all over he-- scouting, maybe not so much this year?
The private land I hunt is an hour and a half away so I might not make as many trips and just stick to the public land 15 minutes from my house where I cut my teeth on deer and turkey over 20 years ago.
I wait all year for this. These gas prices aren't going away anytime soon if ever. I'm hunting if I have to ride a bike.......
I would suspect that most guys on here are pretty die hard turkey hunters and it is going to take a lot to deter them. But everyone on here is just a drop in the bucket compared to all turkey hunters.
Seems a lot of new turkey hunters have come on lately and they very well could be influenced by gas prices. And who knows how high it can go...$4...$5...$7 a gallon???
I use to hit at least 4 or 5 (or more) states a year. I've slowed down a bit and usually just 3 now, 4 on a good year. Very high gas prices could affect me.
Most working age people, especially those with young families, have X number of dollars of disposable income. A doubling of gas prices will definitely cause many to modify plans. Yes, you can generally cut expenses in your everyday life, but the increase in fuel costs are going to have an effect 52 weeks a year, not just on the annual hunting trip. We're already experiencing near record inflation. Some people will suddenly find themselves on a much tighter budget. Where they choose to cut expenses, who knows?
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I'm going even if I have to ride my horse or bike.
Doing some calculations, I believe I will drive roughly 4,000 miles this spring turkey hunting. I think the difference in the cost of gas for that amount of driving will be about $300 to $400 from what it was previously. That is not enough for me to panic over, especially when I consider the cost of everything else associated with the trips I am making. The fact is that I could easily make up that difference by camping out or spending the night in my truck rather than paying for lodging along the way. Ultimately, it is all a matter of priorities relative to cost for me. My priority is turkey huntin'!
From what I can tell, some folks on here will spend twice or three times that amount on pieces of wood that make turkey sounds. Nothing wrong with that if that is your priority, but I have a hard time sympathizing with someone who complains about gas prices when they are doing that... :angel9:
Gas prices aren't going to keep me from hunting as much as possible. It is possible that it could get to the point it's cheaper to fly on those really far trips instead of drive. And I'm sure I'll complain about gas prices every day but I'm going hunting one way or another. Luckily my car isn't too bad on gas and my wife understands my passion for turkey hunting
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It ain't just gas that'll squeeze budgets.
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Just drove to Okeechobee Fl and back to Ohio to turkey hunt. Gas prices aren't going to stop me from going where I want to go turkey hunting.
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Quote from: sasquatch1 on March 07, 2022, 02:32:27 PM
It ain't just gas that'll squeeze budgets.
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yesterday i noticed the local gas station increased their "sale" price on a food item from $1 to 1.29. that price is never going back down. good luck out there folks. you'll take whats given to you and you'll like it lol
I'll be going turkey hunting regardless of the price.
It's definitely going to cost more this year but, I haven't changed any plans. Mississippi, Florida, and Illinois are my "away" trips and then several in my home state with less than two and a half hour drives.
I can't help but believe that it will impact a lot of folks.
Will mostly just take out more vacation time. I usually hunt a couple of morning each week before I go into work . It's a extra 80 miles to do so. Think I'll just take those days off and save some money and have a more time to hunt.
I trapped worthless (basically) fur all Fall....gas prices don't bother me apparently.
Going to spend the money to go turkey hunting.
What chaps me is spending the extra to go to work , darn it.
I decided to camp at my wma to save time but saving a quarter tank of gas is a nice bonus.
Most folks will say I'm going no matter what and there are plenty of folks where that will be the case. I do think it will greatly cut back how long people will continue to go back over and over again unsuccessfully. I also think it will cut back how much all the new Johnny come lately hunters will be going.
I am blessed to make pretty good money and have a good chunk saved for season but flat out put $90 in my wife's expedition the other day. In a week or so when i have to start to fill it, my truck and my work car which is what I will be doing that's gonna be $250-$300 a week. That's $1000+ a month in gas I may be wrong but I don't think most folks have that extra in their budget. I know before my current job there is no way I could have afforded that period much less that and a house note, insurance, etc. etc.
That being said I still plan to make several OOS trips and hunt quite a few states. I was/am still debating on flying way out west for a few days but that one is probably not gonna happen due to how bad gas prices are gonna cut into my hunting fund.
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Most folks will say I'm going no matter what and there are plenty of folks where that will be the case. I do think it will greatly cut back how long people will continue to go back over and over again unsuccessfully. I also think it will cut back how much all the new Johnny come lately hunters will be going.
I am blessed to make pretty good money and have a good chunk saved for season but flat out put $90 in my wife's expedition the other day. In a week or so when i have to start to fill it, my truck and my work car which is what I will be doing that's gonna be $250-$300 a week. That's $1000+ a month in gas I may be wrong but I don't think most folks have that extra in their budget. I know before my current job there is no way I could have afforded that period much less that and a house note, insurance, etc. etc.
That being said I still plan to make several OOS trips and hunt quite a few states. I was/am still debating on flying way out west for a few days but that one is probably not gonna happen due to how bad gas prices are gonna cut into my hunting fund.
I feel the same, however don't underestimate the credit card "charge" it generation
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Hate the price at the pumps. If it keeps going like it has this past couple of weeks. The price should be around the $7 mark. That will hurt but I will still try to make it.
I'm just hoping after getting the Chinese sniffles that my strength will build back for the walk in to where I plan to hunt. If not I'll just hunt from around a 100" from the road.
I hunt private land one hour from my house. It will probably cost me almost twice as much in gas as last year but I'll be in the woods just as much as I can, just like I always do.
I will still go hunting, but I might cut out one of my out of state hunts. Had several planed. What this high price of gas thing is going to do hurt some of the smaller business's I'm afraid. I'll have less money to spend on say a new call or vest or at a restaurant or convivence store and such as much of my money will be going to these multitrillion dollar oil companies just to get out and back.
My work is 15 miles from my house, I typically go to work in AM, then run into town for lunch, back out to work then home at the end of the day. Averaging Driving 55-60 miles per day to go to work and back in my truck that gets 12.5 mpg which averages out to 17 dollars per day with current gas prices around me aggravates me far more than the thousands of dollars I will spend on gas this season while hunting locally and taking a few out of state trips this spring. The gas prices will deter the faint of heart, the die hard's will stick with it. I mean, I'm already spending 1,500+ on licenses and $10 per shell. Why would an increase in gas prices deter me or alter my plans?
It makes shooting $15 shells not seem so bad! But it will affect a lot of us whether we realize it yet or not. If not this year it'll hit us next year.
I load my own shells, haven't bought a call in years, hunt with ancient camo that is now cool and always camp while out of state, been saving for years...haha
Will still be painful filling up for 100$ plus!
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Last year alone, I put over 6,000 miles on my vehicle all for turkey hunting, this includes scouting trips. It's going to get real expensive this year, I'm not happy about it, but I'm ALIVE, and I'm going hunting.
Currently the environment is changing daily. Every time stations refill the price is a lot different
Yesterday morn I filled up at 3.79, this morning that same station since they refilled is 4.19.
I'm think we will easily hit a national average of 5+
Covid took out several refineries (loss of supply) and also most of the tracing industry (lock of supply) yet demand hasn't slowed down.
Add a war on top of that (huge fuel consumer) and the demand related to the supply is astronomically higher.
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You only live once. Only so many turkey seasons. I'm going.Who needs electric or water.....?? Lol
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I work year round on the road as a construction contract worker. I take off every turkey season because that's just me. I save my money for this time of the year. Gas could be 10 bucks a gallon in Mississippi and I'm still going to drive and hunt. Take the good with the bad I guess
I knew there was a reason to keep my Prius!
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I have 3 tags and two weeks vacation I had to schedule back last December, that and Life has severely limited my Turkey time these last two seasons. I pray every day that it works out and I'm able to get in the game this year. I've already decided to scratch one 300 mile public area scouting trip but luckily the other two tags are one hour round trip each and I'll scout those hard.
If work picks up I'll do some overtime to help with the added cost of everything lately at the rate it's goin.
Thanks, BIDEN.
I'm not so worried about gas prices as I am having a job in the construction industry with the pending recession some say is already here. Tough times are coming fellas and I got a feeling $5 a gallon gas is going to seem like a cake walk.
It will take a bigger bite out of my gas budget but I'll spend what it requires to go where I want this spring.
Drove over 7000 miles in 5 weeks this past year.
I travel thousands of miles every spring, but I always camp and live like a hobo during turkey season.
saves money and less travel when you camp where you hunt!
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I budget my life around turkey hunting.
Gas is typically the least of my concern when planning trips. This year it was certainly a bigger budgeting factor, but it didn't slow me down any. I hunted 7 states and would have done the same if gas was $10 a gallon.
Gas prices won't stop me. I budget ahead for the upcoming year.. Each week I put in 20 or 30 dollars in the gas fund. If can shoot $15.00 shells I'll pay the price for gas to do what I enjoy.
It definitely effected me. Budget talks are great but I've only got so much I can budget and family comes first. Luckily I still got to go a pretty good bit. I usually drive about an hour. It would be nice to have something that gets more than 11mpg.
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I needed a new truck 2 years ago when my trusty Avalanche finally bit the dust with 300k on the
odometer. I decided my next truck needed to get better mileage than the 16mpg I was getting,
especially considering I have a 50 mile daily round trip commute for work. I decided to try out
a midsize truck this time around. I average around 25 mpg in the summer months, dropping to 22
in the winter. This is mostly all highway and rural state route driving with little stop and go traffic.
Big difference going from 16 to 25 mpg! Now i don't like the small bed, so I will probably go to a
longer bed when I get rid of this one. I actually liked the smaller size truck after a lifetime of f150's
and 250's and driving 18 wheelers for a living. But this particular truck has been an endless warranty
issue generator, so I am probably going with a different make next time around.
I only have one spot so no matter what I am traveling half an hour to get there or more, less in the daylight as I do not see well at night.
Gas prices will only alter my normal turkey hunting routine in one aspect. I usually do quite a bit of riding around in the areas I hunt during non-hunting hours. I'll probably do less of that.
Shouldn't effect my hunting. I'll cut back on other things, but my turkey hunting is not one of them.