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Re: What's the point of a "hunting truck"
[Re: AU7MM08]
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10/18/18 08:59 AM
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Posts: 10,466 Scottsboro, Al
jbatey1
Lucky Bastage
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Lucky Bastage
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Posts: 10,466
Scottsboro, Al
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I take my rattle canned black K5 places that few King Ranch owners would dare. Yep. My k5 is in great shape compared to most k5’s, it has a deep scratches and all that good stuff that I don’t want my nice truck to have. I take it places that my King Ranch will never see. Now that I hunt my wife’s family land in Skyline I catch myself driving my nice truck to the Farm. It has nice gravel roads in and out of the property, so it’s not an issue. I definitely drive the K5 if I want to put myself into extra kill mode. Crank up some AC/DC and listen to that old truck rumble and rattle
The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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Re: What's the point of a "hunting truck"
[Re: Remington270]
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10/18/18 09:04 AM
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Posts: 3,240 Semmes, AL
HippieKiller
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My daily driver is a TJ. I was looking at buying a SxS to spare my Jeep some of the Wilcox Co abuse, but after seeing the price for a SxS ($10k+ for a wore out one) and realizing I would need to buy a bigger trailer too, I opted to go a different route. Tried to find a beater Jeep, but they were all north of $5k. Ended up getting a '87 Dodge Raider. Seating for 4, fully enclosed cab, A/C, heat, and street legal. I am about to rattle can it camo & slap a winch on her, and at the end of the day I'll have under $2,500 in it.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: What's the point of a "hunting truck"
[Re: Remington270]
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10/18/18 09:21 AM
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,911 huntin the big lease
Turkeymaster
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8 point
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Posts: 1,911
huntin the big lease
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my camp truck is used for doing donuts when it's wet, running over critters and trees and stuff without caring and having something that I can throw a bloody ass deer in the back of without worrying if it gets blood all over it. I don't use it much during turkey season because I have an electric golf cart
"All is fair in love, War and Turkey Hunting"
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Re: What's the point of a "hunting truck"
[Re: jbatey1]
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10/18/18 09:24 AM
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Posts: 644 Madison County
bholmes
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I take my rattle canned black K5 places that few King Ranch owners would dare. Yep. My k5 is in great shape compared to most k5’s, it has a deep scratches and all that good stuff that I don’t want my nice truck to have. I take it places that my King Ranch will never see. Now that I hunt my wife’s family land in Skyline I catch myself driving my nice truck to the Farm. It has nice gravel roads in and out of the property, so it’s not an issue. I definitely drive the K5 if I want to put myself into extra kill mode. Crank up some AC/DC and listen to that old truck rumble and rattle Exact same story with my 74 K10, besides the part about AC/DC because the radio doesn't work. I don't think I could hear it over the tires and pipes anyways.
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Re: What's the point of a "hunting truck"
[Re: bama1971]
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10/18/18 09:55 AM
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Posts: 4,675 Alabama
Rmart30
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Alabama
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I would like a "hunting truck" (or SUV preferably), out of pure laziness of not loading and unloading all my hunting crap, and more times than not, I don't unload it, and ride around with it and its all in my way. Thats me. Most all my hunting gear stays in totes or bags in a small suv thru hunting season. When I go all I have to do is grab my gun get in and and go.
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching - even when doing the wrong thing is legal. Aldo Leopold .. (except when it comes to trailer tags)
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Re: What's the point of a "hunting truck"
[Re: Remington270]
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10/18/18 10:29 AM
10/18/18 10:29 AM
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Posts: 6,095 Anniston, AL
ikillbux
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ishootatbux
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Anniston, AL
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There are all sort of really good and justifiable reasons to have one. But this thread reminded me of one of the stupidest things... I was in a club for two years near Alex City years ago, one of the members lived near me in Anniston (about an hour and a half drive). He had a nice Z71, but always came to the club in this stupid little Suzuki Samurai. We didn't drive vehicles on our roads anyway (you could, but none of us ever did, we used 4wheelers). Now, he kept a 4wheeler parked behind his camper under a shed, which he always rode everywhere around the club. My point is he didn't use that Samurai as a deer retriever or anything, he could've driven that Z71. That stupid Suzuki ALWAYS gave him mechanical problems, wouldn't crank, radiator leaked, routinely stranded him and we'd have to go get him. I'll never know why he had this mental block that he had to have that "hunting vehicle", when all he used it for was to commute to the club.
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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Re: What's the point of a "hunting truck"
[Re: Remington270]
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10/18/18 11:41 AM
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Posts: 7,959 Boaz,AL
CarbonClimber1
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14 point
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Posts: 7,959
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I drive a 92 4x4 toyota....everday....ill let you fill in the blank.
"I dont quit.. And ill fight alone if i have to"
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Re: What's the point of a "hunting truck"
[Re: ikillbux]
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10/18/18 12:42 PM
10/18/18 12:42 PM
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Posts: 2,503 cullman,al
deerfeeder89
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There are all sort of really good and justifiable reasons to have one. But this thread reminded me of one of the stupidest things... I was in a club for two years near Alex City years ago, one of the members lived near me in Anniston (about an hour and a half drive). He had a nice Z71, but always came to the club in this stupid little Suzuki Samurai. We didn't drive vehicles on our roads anyway (you could, but none of us ever did, we used 4wheelers). Now, he kept a 4wheeler parked behind his camper under a shed, which he always rode everywhere around the club. My point is he didn't use that Samurai as a deer retriever or anything, he could've driven that Z71. That stupid Suzuki ALWAYS gave him mechanical problems, wouldn't crank, radiator leaked, routinely stranded him and we'd have to go get him. I'll never know why he had this mental block that he had to have that "hunting vehicle", when all he used it for was to commute to the club. Like you said that is kinda pointless. My truck that reno has now fetched deer. I didn't have a 4wheeler and didn't need one when I had that truck drive it as close as I could slap the deer on the flat bed strap it on and drive out. A bunch of guys I know started a hunting club in Franklin county and 5 of them was pretty good friend s mine one let me go with him if I paid the guest fee and we drove that toyota 1.5 hrs up there and one of out other friends that was a member had a little 70cc 4wheeler he used hunting up there (he's a small guy 5ft). He shot a deer and couldn't haul it out with that little rinky dink 4wheeler so he asked if I could make it in there and help him get it out we squeezed that truck down a 4wheeler trail with in 20yds of the deer loaded it up and drove out of reno will look the muffler on that truck probably still has the blood baked on it from the day
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Re: What's the point of a "hunting truck"
[Re: Remington270]
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10/18/18 03:03 PM
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Posts: 6,363 On the X
TickaTicka
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12 point
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Posts: 6,363
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Guys like trucks. Guys like to hunt. The two go together.
Public Land Owner
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Re: What's the point of a "hunting truck"
[Re: Remington270]
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10/18/18 03:42 PM
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Posts: 10,012 North Jackson
ridgestalker
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 10,012
North Jackson
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Been driving my 99 wrangler always and every where for the last 18 yrs.
"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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