Opinion on lodging. What do you prefer?

[oldmossback]

What is your prefer method of lodging for Colorado big game rifle hunting and why?
1. Wall tent or tent
2. RV or Camp trailer
3. Hotel

Post pics of your set up


Thanks

 

[elks96]

HAHA. So right now I am sleeping in the bed of my truck on an air mattress. No camper topper just stars. If it decides to rain I will sleep in the cab or a little back packing tent. I roll the bed up daily and load coolers and food to go for the day hunting until dark then parking where ever I end up at dark. When it is just me and one kid we have been doing this a lot. Simple mobile and allow us to avoid the snakes on the ground.

We did use an AirBNB for Turkey Season 1 weekend. And have a AIr BNB reserved for thanksgiving deer hunting in MT.

1. Sleeping in bed of truck when warm or for a 2 night weekend hunt
2. Wall tent when cold and a few more days
3. Air BNB when we are traveling a long ways from home

 

[FrontRange]

30 years of wall tent/wood stove/cots and another wall tent for cooking/hanging out. It was great, very comfortable, maybe to comfortable. Last year we switched hunting units and a buddy put us up in a cabin with electricity & plumbing. It was the bomb!!

 

[DW]

Wall tent, woodstove, horses and mules, non dehydrated food.

 

[Muley]

My bed at home.

 

[HIcountryman]

i prefer tent to stay close to the action. i like to be cold and somewhat miserable so the wife doesn't think i m on vacation and want to tag along!

 

[txhunter58]

I like to fall out of bed, get dressed, eat and walk out the door and be hunting immediately. On private land that could mean a cabin, on national forest it could be an RV or a tent.

 

[1989Cohunter]

Im soft and like my camper.

 

[hunt30]

Hotels, restaurants, hot showers, football games on tv at night.

 

[jims]

My vote is a pickup topper to get out of the wind, rain, and other elements. If backpacking my vote obviously goes for a tent. A hotel is nice after a few days of roughing it in the winter months.

 

[Founder]

Tent for me. It’s usually my Kodak 14x10, but last year it was a backpacker tent.
Not sure which I prefer, I guess it would depend. That backpack hunt last year was fun.

 

[fallguy]

Truck topper. No setting up or tearing down - find a level spot and you're good. I heat a hot evening meal on a propane single burner and go to bed. I'm in the woods all day so I don't need to lounge around and make it a camping trip. I used to sleep on the truck bed, on pads, but upgraded to a cot a few years ago and that a big improvement. It is tight but works for me.

 

[Magicman]

This Outfitter Apex 8 has been our favorite hunting lodging since 2004. We generally unload it which frees the truck.

Also we pull a 12' covered trailer with the 4wheeler, coolers, and other supplies.

This gives us a frig/freezer, microwave, cooktop, etc.

 

[feddoc]

This is my favorite.

Buttttt, my wife likes this:

https://imgur.com/bBm6NaN

 

[Magicman]

In Reply #13 I showed the camper on the truck. Here is a picture showing the camper removed.

 

[HIcountryman]

Nice to camp in a tiny tent at 11k ft in early season

 

[Muley]

Yes, if you're young but i'm an old fart. I can sleep at home and be at the 11,000ft hunting area in 20 min.

 

[HIcountryman]

not this spot! wilderness area

 

[Muley]

Not every wilderness area is hard to get too. I was talking about my spots. No idea where yours are.

I'm just saying that camping is fine but not always necessary.

 

[brutus54]

Nice and cozy..?

 

[oldmossback]

Truck topper. No setting up or tearing down - find a level spot and you're good. I heat a hot evening meal on a propane single burner and go to bed. I'm in the woods all day so I don't need to lounge around and make it a camping trip. I used to sleep on the truck bed, on pads, but upgraded to a cot a few years ago and that a big improvement. It is tight but works for me.

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Nice, what do you use for heat?

 

[oldmossback]

sure

Yes, if you're young but i'm an old fart. I can sleep at home and be at the 11,000ft hunting area in 20 min.

sure, rub it in, rub it in

 

[fallguy]

Nice, what do you use for heat?

I pack a Little Buddy heater but have never used it. The coldest morning I've woke up to was 19 degrees. I'm typically hunting Sept - Late October. November hunts would be tougher out of the truck.

I sleep with light gloves on and a fleece hat pulled down over my ears. My nose is the only thing that gets cold. On the Little Buddy heater, I am reluctant to use it. Some guys open their topper windows a bit and run it for a while in the am to take the chill off.

 

[SanJuan]

I've spent many a night in my backpacking tent or in the back of my truck. The wife talked me into a little bumper pull this summer. after ~12 days of scouting I still haven't used it but suspect it will be handy on the later hunts.

 

[accubond]

Wall tents, one for sleeping and one for cooking and hanging out.

 

[The_Coloradoboy]

Wall tent is my preferred method.. spent a lot of nights though in the bed of the truck, with a canvas cutter when I’m soloing it.

 

[elktaker]

Early season short hunts, I use a bivy sac/sleeping bag on a decent pad at the vehicle or in the backcountry. Very mobile and light.

Longer hunts I have an ultralight tipi and ultra light wood stove (though it looks like CO will still be in Stage II fire restrictions in early September for my unit so no wood stove)

Late season hunts usually with groups, it’s wall tents with wood stoves.