Good Gas Mileage Hunting Vehicle

[Rob5589]

I went electric for daily driving and most road trips. Range is over 300 miles and never had an issue with charging, even on trips greater than 1000+ miles. There are more than enough chargers all over the place to keep you going. Charges take around 30 - 45 minutes.

When you factor in that those chargers also happen to be in shopping centers and places to eat, it makes it viable... and if you have young kids, it's a no brainer. You're going to be stopping every few hours for them anyways, so might as well use that time to charge.

I'm just about ready to trade in the Raptor to go electric truck also, but having a hard time deciding which to go with.

Which state?

 

[Marble]

Every little bit of saved fuel helps.

But if the true motivation is to save money, I would find other ways in addition to fuel.

I know with my trip I have accommodations, horses and eating out that account for $1200 -1400. With no horses, eating out less and pulling my trailer, I could save quite a bit. I'm guessing $500.

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[BrokenArrow]

O6 ram Cummins g56 6 speed crew and topper. Stock height. Paid. 21 city, 25 hwy. 127k and gets about 6k a year. Mostly 3rd-4th season hunts and hauling restoration project jeeps. I’ll never buy anything else. Crushes any other truck I’ve ever had. Duramax, gasser. 7.3l powerstroke was the next favorite.
Because:
I also have a 03 Jetta diesel fwd 5 speed wagon. Lifted. Box. Injectors. Turbo. Exhaust. Skid plates. Park where it sucks and Hauls my KTM for s&$t roads on the trailer hitch. 40-45mpg. Easiest diesel to maintain and get 3-400k before rebuild with maintenance. Oh, and they’re around $3k with 200k.
Just sayin the quiver works perfect. And I’m laughing at my $70 fill up on the Jetta and ~600 mile range.

2023- I had an WY trophy elk archery hunt and drove the Jetta up by Cody. I’ve never had more funny ass looks and thumbs up than the 330 bull on top of that Jetta on I-80. May have been the best part of the hunt, lol.

 

[ikeG]

The money you spend to purchase a different vehicle will be more than the money saved from the fuel mileage difference, most of the time. There's only a few cases where you will actually save money by upgrading to a vehicle with better fuel mileage. But its one of the most popular reasons people use to rationalize the purchase of a new vehicle

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[kda082]

this post is useless but just returned from vac in Caribbean and saw lots of Suzuki Jimnys, looks like a Jeep and g wagon had a baby. Of course we don’t get them in the states. Small SUV that gets great MPGs and good off road ability.

 

[Forestryguy]

Everyone that gave reasons that they went to an EV makes sense. Other than no one commented on what they will do when the electric grip is down for extended periods of time. If all fossil fuels are diminished by legislation that makes it uncertain to invest in, power plants are going to be closing more and more. Then all we are left with is unreliable "Green" energy sources. That will mean sitting and waiting for batteries to be charged to supply the grid so that you can charge your batteries. Or charging off of smaller independent systems that may or may not be affected by the weather also. Again, I like the idea, eventually. Would be better off modernizing and securing the power grids and cleaning up historical energy sources. In that time let the "Green" industries develop themselves and be able to survive with no subsidies.

 

[parshal]

There are places to charge on Colorado's front range but I've not seen many in the eastern side nor in Kansas, northern New Mexico and western Oklahoma where I drive most. There's a couple chargers in Limon, CO, but they have half of them covered most of the time. I once saw a very long line of cars waiting to charge on Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend.

I'd get an EV for a runaround vehicle but there are going to have a be a bunch more chargers in semi-rural areas before I can get one. They work now since there aren't that many EV's on the interstates. If Ford is going all electric in 10-15 years they're going to need to beef up the electric now to meet that demand.

 

[jKsled]

Maverick is pretty interesting. Wish it was AWD though... could nearly make that work as a dd/commuter but i would be worried about driving in snow.

 

[5MilesBack]

Every time I think about an electric truck for hunting I realize I'd have a tough time with it. I drive 400+ each way to go bird hunting. There aren't any chargers to speak of along the route.

You have to pull your own gas or diesel powered generator behind it on a trailer.

 

[WRM]

Maverick is pretty interesting.

Client of mine who's a big car guy drives one as a daily. He's pretty pleased with it for what it is. Doesn't live in snow country tho.

 

[gbflyer]

My son had one of those Crosstreks. Good looking car. He slid into a curb at basically jogging speed, bent a rear wheel and did enough suspension damage to necessitate the need for aftermarket parts to get it into alignment again as factory wouldn’t adjust far enough. So basically totaled it with zero visible body damage. Pure junk.

 

[Titan_Bow]

My wife has a 2015 Subaru Forester. We had to basically fight with Subaru corporate and the local dealer over an engine issue. They ended up having to replace the short block at 60,000 miles…


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[Btaylor]

Every time I think about an electric truck for hunting I realize I'd have a tough time with it. I drive 400+ each way to go bird hunting. There aren't any chargers to speak of along the route.

Just mount a propane tank and a generac in the bed.

 

[Titan_Bow]

One of my neighbors has one of those Rivian trucks. They look really cool and have some great features, but you would be screwed going into any really remote or rural areas. Also, I’ve heard the battery performance drops off significantly in cold weather. I also think about those bad weather days where I’ve sat in my truck for 3 or 4 hours waiting for weather to pass, with the heat cranking. Don’t think you could do that with an EV, especially if it took 70% of your battery just to get there! I really hope that someone comes out with a new tech that no one’s really talking about now. I just can’t see 6 or 7 dollar a gallon fuel being sustainable, and EVs have there place, but not in remote and rural areas or for people that need to drive more than 200 miles at a time


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[307]

You have to pull your own gas or diesel powered generator behind it on a trailer.

I honestly wonder if this is viable. I'm sure you intended it as an attack on EV, but when 90% of my yearly driving is going to be just fine with a 300 mile range, the occasional long trip, why not have a small generator fueled by hydrocarbon sources.

 

[jKsled]

Client of mine who's a big car guy drives one as a daily. He's pretty pleased with it for what it is. Doesn't live in snow country tho.

I'm seriously considering it now. Similar price and mileage to other commuters, more functionality. But i don't know that it can replace a full-size for road trips.

 

[dtrkyman]

My brother in law rented a Tesla to drive from Dallas area to Chicago area, he wanted one until that trip. Not sure the details but I know the range did not hold up on the road to their claims.

f150 hybird?

 

[JeffRaines]

I've also been shopping around a bit with gas prices going through the roof. Currently driving a 21 F150 Screw and getting around 22mpg or so highway - which is great for the size of truck... but with gas at 5.25 at the cheapest where I'm at it sure isn't cheap to run it 4 days a week to work and back(80 miles round trip).

I think what has some guys looking at vehicles now, at least me, is the fact that gas is getting more expensive and trucks are also worth a boatload of money. I can sell my truck with 30k on the odometer for 4k more than I paid for it. Factor in fuel savings on top of that and most people are going to come out ahead immediately.

I definitely agree that in the past before used vehicle pricing went through the roof, it didn't make sense to trade in over fuel economy because as someone pointed out it would take a long time for it to make sense financially, if ever, because you used to lose money trading in a vehicle. Nowadays, guys that bought a truck two or three years ago can likely get what they originally paid for it in trade... so now that deal starts off on a clean slate and you're seeing savings immediately.

 

[justin davis]

I’m a Tacoma guy personally. I run skinny tires and don’t bog it down with big tires and heavy bumpers and racks etc. I get 20-22 mpg just driving around.

 

[mossyoak52]

Everyone that gave reasons that they went to an EV makes sense. Other than no one commented on what they will do when the electric grip is down for extended periods of time.

Charge them with a generator