Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting USING ENCLOSED TRAILERS FOR A HUNTING CAMP

Yes, bare metal is a cold SOB. If flame serves as ones heat source, vent it to the outside to eliminate carbon monoxide and moisture issues. We typically have two trailers in camp, but life revolves around wall (cooking and socializing) and dome (sleeping) tents.

We covered our trailers with a tarp. The tarp created a dead air space the reduced the sweating inside the trailer while running a radiant propane heater. Otherwise it would rain inside. Lol

A number of years ago, I pressure washed out the Featherlite 3-horse slant and we used it to haul our camp and dogs to Montana. We only stopped for fuel. Someone was always sleeping in the trailer to be fresh driver. We mostly used it as a windblock but 3 slept in the back and I slept in the gooseneck. Made a good camp. The walls were lined with rubber and we could crack the windows as needed. Made a good camp!

FWIW, in Idaho and many other states, it's illegal to haul a passenger in a trailer. Mexicans do it all the time of course.

Idaho sure has a lot of damn laws! No luminocks, no riding in trailers? Not sure what harm there is to let someone ride in a trailer-especially a gooseneck.

If you do a little checking, you'll find that most states don't allow passengers in trailers. PASSENGERS IN TRAILERS

Awhile back when we were showing mules I spent a lot of miles sleeping in the nose of a gooseneck while my wife was driving

Ahah! The confessions of a lawbreaker.

I also turned my 20' stick trailer into a hunting camp and it worked perfectly for what I needed. I had a propane can heater in it and it stayed pretty dang warm. Temps got down into the low twenties to mid teens.

It is an aluminum trailer that I out plexiglass in the slats. The escape door I did as well but the back split gate I did not as I knew I needed ventilation with that heater.

The one night I did stuff extra blankets into it as the wind got really bad and it was perticularly cold that night. I left the heater running all night and it sure did take the chill off. But with a good sleeping bag on a cot with a canvas manny cover over the top to help with any condensation it worked very well. I was on a solo hunt and very comfy by my standards. I had a cook table, coolers for food storage, water, and a dressing area complete with a chair to take off my boots as well. I hunt my gaiters, socks, and boots in the open center gait to dry and I even had to let them cool off in the morning so as my feet didn't get cold from instant hot in those warm boots. Nothing I hate worse then putting on warm boots only to have frozen feet minutes later from sweaty socks.

I'm not sure what I would change at this point, but in sure that something could be improved on though.