Well as I stand here pumping $2.67 cents per gallon gas in my old 69 Ford truck I’m wondering what my hunting season is going to be like this year.
Last year I pulled my old camp trailer up in the mountains and parked about six miles out of Pierce Idaho a couple of weeks before elk season started. It wasn’t far really, about forty five or fifty miles from where I live.
Gas was under two dollars a gallon and it still was pretty expensive to go back and fourth and spend a month on and off in the woods hunting.
I’m not sure I’m going elk hunting this year. The camper may stay parked in my yard and I may just hunt the local deer, which are plentiful around my house.
I can remember growing up reading Popular Science and Popular Mechanics and reading about all the new energy sources being researched such as nuclear fusion and fuel cells and lots of other types of power that would bring us cheap energy. What happened to all those dreams?
My personal opinion is that, though some research is still going on, big money, meaning big oil is stifling all attempts to give us any such “cheap energy”. This would be so counter productive to the profits being made on oil today that it would be inconceivable. At least if I was making that kind of money I sure wouldn’t want any kind of competition.
Well so much for those kind of thoughts, back to the hunting situation. There are a lot of older hunters like me on a fixed income that are having the same problem of deciding how or if there going to hunt this fall. I know that my hunting will be curtailed drastically this year. I really do love the elk hunting, but I didn’t get one last year and I just can’t seem to allocate the funds to get my hunting camp into that area this year.
Being handicapped caused some of the problems. Last year I did more road hunting, which costs fuel dollars, and some stand hunting. I did have access to a handicapped only area which was good, just didn’t luck onto a bull, though I did see a couple of cows.
I have lots of excellent deer hunting within ten miles of my place and the winter coyote hunting is fantastic. The deer hunting is going to replace the elk chase this year. With my grandbabies and my sons tags were going to be able to harvest four deer and that will replace the elk that should go in the freezer. Boy I do like that elk meat though.
I hope all you older hunters can get into your hunting areas this fall without the high fuel prices killing your hunts. I know it’s sure going to put a crimp into my hunting.
Last year I pulled my old camp trailer up in the mountains and parked about six miles out of Pierce Idaho a couple of weeks before elk season started. It wasn’t far really, about forty five or fifty miles from where I live.
Gas was under two dollars a gallon and it still was pretty expensive to go back and fourth and spend a month on and off in the woods hunting.
I’m not sure I’m going elk hunting this year. The camper may stay parked in my yard and I may just hunt the local deer, which are plentiful around my house.
I can remember growing up reading Popular Science and Popular Mechanics and reading about all the new energy sources being researched such as nuclear fusion and fuel cells and lots of other types of power that would bring us cheap energy. What happened to all those dreams?
My personal opinion is that, though some research is still going on, big money, meaning big oil is stifling all attempts to give us any such “cheap energy”. This would be so counter productive to the profits being made on oil today that it would be inconceivable. At least if I was making that kind of money I sure wouldn’t want any kind of competition.
Well so much for those kind of thoughts, back to the hunting situation. There are a lot of older hunters like me on a fixed income that are having the same problem of deciding how or if there going to hunt this fall. I know that my hunting will be curtailed drastically this year. I really do love the elk hunting, but I didn’t get one last year and I just can’t seem to allocate the funds to get my hunting camp into that area this year.
Being handicapped caused some of the problems. Last year I did more road hunting, which costs fuel dollars, and some stand hunting. I did have access to a handicapped only area which was good, just didn’t luck onto a bull, though I did see a couple of cows.
I have lots of excellent deer hunting within ten miles of my place and the winter coyote hunting is fantastic. The deer hunting is going to replace the elk chase this year. With my grandbabies and my sons tags were going to be able to harvest four deer and that will replace the elk that should go in the freezer. Boy I do like that elk meat though.
I hope all you older hunters can get into your hunting areas this fall without the high fuel prices killing your hunts. I know it’s sure going to put a crimp into my hunting.