Gas Prices & DIY NR Hunters

cnelk

WKR
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Colorado
Gas Buddy has a Trip Calculator that is useful for planning long distance trips.

Enter vehicle make/model, trip location and it will populate fuel stops and cost.

 

RGARNER

Lil-Rokslider
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Jan 27, 2021
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I’ll be flying out this year, with the cost of fuel it’s about the same price to fly out, rent a truck, and ship a pallet of stuff out ahead of time.
Last year the 5k miles round trip cost us about $600 a head with fuel and tolls. Add in the fuel increase and we will be almost $1k a head, also flying gives me at a minimum a full extra hunting day.
Check the availability and price of rental cars before you buy your tickets assuming you would rent a car to get from the airport to where ever you are hunting. We had a hell of a time getting a rental last year and ended up paying 2k total for it. I even have a corporate membership with enterprise that usually is dirt cheap with unlimited mileage. The rep told us that they only received about 1/3 of the cars that they ordered last year and that was the reason for the extra cost and not giving us unlimited miles.
 
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certainly going to hurt the wallet more then it did last year but we are still planning the 1600 mile trip. truck makes 23mpg highway but still adds a good amount of drain to the bank account
 
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Magnolia, Texas
Yeah it’s gonna suck driving from Houston to McCall and back at the end of May

BUT high fuel prices will not stop me.


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