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Will the higher gas prices going to effect the way or amount of hunting you will do this year? Not planning on letting it effect our hunting plans but do expect the added cost will have some effect on other items though. Lawdog
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No. I will cut back elsewhere if I have to. A matter of priority in my mind. I live for Sept 1-Jan 5th.

I don't know what you guys pay in the States, but here in NSW, between Sydney and Canberra fuel has gone up in leaps and bounds. In a couple of months regular unleaded has increased from A$0.96/L to A$1.23/L and diesel has increased from A$1.09/L to A$1.35/L!!!!

A$1 = US$0.76, and
3.79L = 1gal (US)

That would equate to;

Unleaded = US$3.54/gal
Diesel = US$3.89/gal

As a consequence, the Australia Federal Reserve Bank is considering a cut in interest rates next month.

In answer to your question, NO. I'm still going away on my Sambar hunt in Victoria and Wild Boar hunt in October. Fuel prices haven't really affected my local deer (Fallow and Chital) and rabbit hunting.

Well my plans to try hunting chukar this year are probly not goona happen because of that. My plans for deer and elk though are still goona happen. I have thought about selling my pickup and buying something like a broncoII or a Ranger.

my ranger gets 15/17mpg and the last tank cost $2.78.9 in lapine, oregon

It does not matter, if I have to by a horse, bicycle, moped, or walk I will hunt.

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Contemplating a Suzuki DL650 w/ panners for everything but hauling material.

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hi,
here in alberta,(where we produce most of canada.s gas and oil) we are paying 1.03 per liter.there are approx. 4 liters per
american gallon. i still think that yhat is why our liberal govt. put us on the metric system.the average liberal voting canadian would whine forever about 4.12 per gallon,but doesn't realize that at 1.03 per liter that is what he is paying.

Wrong. On the metric system, we are paying. $1.05.9 /l, which at a CDN gal, is $4.80/gal

Gas prices didn't affect my hunting in 1981 when gas was the equivalent of $.80 a gallon more expensive than it is now and I made less money. Won't be selling the PU either. I'm going hunting. I'm going to be draggin' the RV. I'm going to be enjoying life. Not letting a minute slip by.

Absolutely not. I will sacrifice elsewhere where I can before I let gas prices affect my hunting. Due to work/school, I didn't get to hunt much for a few years. You never get that time in the field back.

-Lou

Today's price for unleaded in Thayer, Missouri was $2.799. The difference between one place and another has little to do with the cost of oil.

I almost feel sorry for those living in bloodsucking, tax gouging 'People's Socialist Republiks' like Canada, Australia, and Kalifornia until I remember that they are there by choice and probably deserve the governments most of them asked for.

The price in Thunder Bay is $1.15 per litre. That works out to $5.21 per imperial gallon in Canadian funds. That is equivalent to $3.56 USD for a US gallon. I guess the reason to live in a "bloodsucking, tax gouging people's socialist republik like Canada" is that we still got way better moose hunting than the lower 48. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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it wouldn't break anyone's heart if you stayed home. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

It's $1.32 a litre in Inuvik, so roughly $6 a gallon.

As the man said..."Don beetch to me"

I'm with Hobie...I'm still going hunting. Just gotta work another OT shift or two.

The good news is the price of used SUVs falling.
You can buy a 1999 Jimmy or Mercury Mountaineer 4WD in pristine condition, under 75,000 miles for under $6,000.

Prices here are:

Arm for unleaded.

Leg for midgrade.

Firstborn for highgrade.

Ironic that we complain at $3 a gallon for gas, when we buy bottled water at .99 for 16 oz.

Gasoline, adjusted for currency devaluation, costs less today than it did in the 1970s,

Based on today's prices, it cost me about $60 to drive to my farm to hunt. I do this just about every weekend in the fall. Adds up after awhile. still, will go no matter what. the boat, now that's another story as she holds 125 gallons.