Gas stove vs wood stove

[welpro222]

I am debating whether to not bring my gas pocket stove and just use my kifaru titanium stove in my supertarp. I plan on bringing freeze dried food.

Would I be just wasting time getting the wood stove fired up to boil water? Just to save a few ounces or would it be nice to have alittle heat in the shelter?

I plan on bringing one or the other, its a september hunt, so no heated shelter is needed.

 

[colonel00]

I would go with a gas stove over a wood stove for heating water. It's smaller, faster and lighter. Wood stoves are great for warmth and even passing the time and lifting your spirits a bit but I wouldn't want to have to fire it up just for water for food. Remember, they eat wood so you would also need to bring a saw or ax to cut wood down unless you just used twigs which would burn up even faster. Also, if it's warm enough that you wouldn't need it for warmth, I can only imagine that it would be quite toasty in your shelter while you try to boil water.

 

[gmajor]

In my limited experience, I've found it easier to just pull out the pocket rocket for boiling water. I'll use the wood stove if I'm sleeping in and want to heat up a cup for coffee while I'm still in my bag.

 

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

Using a wood stove as a backup is one thing but I don't think I'd use one as my only cooking source.

 

[Eric Bailey]

I've used the seek outside titanium box stove and a kettle. Works great. I hunt alone and it is nice to have something to do before falling asleep. I'm also a cold sleeper, so it is helpful to get warmed up before falling asleep.

That said, I took a three season tent and a jetboil on both of last year's hunts. I had never been to either area before and needed to move camp a lot until I was finding critters.

 

[Beendare]

I've done that....use the backpack wood stove I built along with my Sl-5 Tipi [since sold] for all of my cooking. It was on backpack trips though...not hunts. I've also used one of those little wood burners with a fan I made [that looks like a backpack stove- see zenstoves.com] and they are fun to tinker with...

My take; that kind of stuff along with improving your woodsmanship skills is fun on backpack trips...but too time consuming on hunts where you are out long before first light...and back after dark. When I'm in camp, the wood stove was a non essential extra....its not like you just hang out in camp.

 

[BroodBuster]

Gas stove for sure. The Sept days are just way too long to be dinking around with a wood stove. I usually hit a water source during the afternoon heat. I'll boil some water for a Mt House and cup of coffee while I'm treating the water in my bladder. I'm back on the ridgetop/glassing spot well before dusk and good to go until dark and it's time to set up camp and crash.