Stove on a day hunt

[guitarpreston]

Scenario: you are base camping out of your truck and day hunting from there for mule deer. Planning on likely being out dark to dark. Do you carry your stove and dinner with you where you can eat in the field or leave it at the truck and just bring snacks for the day?

 

[WiscoHoundsman]

I do something similar for elk and have been packing a stove. It’s small and light. I like a hot meal during the day usually lunch during some downtime.

 

[RyanC]

I typically leave dinner at base camp/truck if I know I'm returning and just take snacks for the day. I do however take my stove because I like to have a mid-day coffee!!

 

[BBob]

anyone else eat supper on the trail vs camp?

I've dabbled in longer adventure races and decided eating supper between 6-7-ish PM on the trail vs waiting until pulling over to camp was a better strategy. It accomplished several things- one we often go to 11 PM or later (headlamp) before pulling over- eating at 11 PM and then going right to...

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[guitarpreston]

Im leaning towards taking it with me. Best case scenario I get an arrow in a deer, I can eat before the track job/pack out to have some extra calories instead of tracking, breaking down, and packing out an animal on an empty-ish stomach.

 

[eaglemountainman]

I'd bring it. You're day hunting, so there probably won't be a lot of other weight in your pack. A midday cup of hot cocoa or coffee is a real luxury to supplement your snacks.

 

[rayporter]

i have coffee every day and can cook for overnights or lunch by just putting a fuel tab under this.

heat water or make mac and cheese or ramen in 8 minutes. i line the cup with a zip loc for mac and cheese and usually add a hand full of dried burger or chop up a spam slice in it.

 

[TaperPin]

I packed it one year - you won’t know if you like it until you try it.

I found if it was cold, the time sitting just made me colder. If it was warm out I didn’t have a craving for hot liquids. Knowing many mid day coffee drinkers, they are more likely to pack it.

You can pack a lot of food for the weight of a stove.

 

[guitarpreston]

We will see. If I use my bigger bag, I have plenty of room, and if I use my smaller bag and Sherman it will be tight. I think the weight of the bags offsets the stove honestly.

 

[Seeknelk]

I often pack it during later, colder high country hunts. Peak biscuits and gravy with coffee, or hot bone broth, with a meat stick and cheese and butter in it on the glassing spot is too good on those days. Other warmer or shorter days it's snacks. But I'm a coffee addict so there's that.

 

[Wrench]

Always have it. Game changer of you're cold.

 

[fatlander]

I enjoy eating my dinner earlier in the evening and just going to sleep once I get back to camp after dark.


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[steelheadmike]

If it's cold and/or I'm glassing, that stove is in the pack.

Hot and moving, not a chance.

 

[rideold]

Pocket rocket and Titan kettle live in my pack regardless of the length of the hunt. during elk season I throw in a freeze dried meal for the chance of getting an animal close to dark. Some things are just better on a full stomach....besides, a cup of coffee is a luxury worth the 12 oz (stove+kettle+small fuel canister).

 

[Schmo]

I pack my stove with me. I eat a regular meal on the trail for lunch. Also like the ability to make coffee while I’m out. I do occasionally have blood sugar problems, so it’s important that I have food with me. It doesn’t weigh much. A hard pack out is a lot more bearable if I’m not starving too

 

[justinspicher]

Mine is generally with me, just like a puffy, regardless of the time of the year or the activity.

 

[*zap*]

just for hot liquids a fuel tab stove is pretty awesome....8 minutes per tab.

 

[sr80]

I have a tiny cup/BRS stove i always keep in my pack while day hunting, if time permits ill always sit and have a coffee while glassing or taking a break. Its definitely the highlight of my afternoon on a cool day.

 

[LCguy]

I always carry my stove, like others have said, a hot meal mid-day can really boost your morale plus it forces me to have a lighter at all times in case I have to spend a cold night on the mountain.