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Tents for elk hunting / car camping

Posted By: T_O_M

Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/05/12

I'm looking for a motorcar camping ground tent. Not a backpacking tent. Something at least, but not a lot more than, 8 feet in one management, maybe ten, peradventure 12 the other. I need a 4-season tent with a floor that is not too difficult for 1 person to put up alone fifty-fifty in the wind. I'd adopt double wall ... I don't want to Accept to use a heater to manage condensation. I want something to use both for elk camp and for summertime automobile camping. Sort of a base-camp type tent. Weight is no result and bulk is not much of 1.

Thoughts / suggestions?

I'd probably opt for the Cabelas Alaknak in your situation.

The come in 8x8, 12x12, and 12x20.

I had the 12x12 before I went to a wall tent. They are very, very expert tents.

Top notch gear.

Posted By: BareBack_Jack

Re: Tents for elk hunting / automobile camping - 06/05/12

Posted By: saddlesore

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/05/12

If you are talking about a truly 4 season tent(winter) I don't run across how you lot will not accept some type of heater.You are worrying too much about condensation. The tighter the tent is the more you will get.

Nearly who want a floor, wish they didn't after use. Poly tarp works well.

I have a 11/xv wall tent and I put it up by myself and I'm 68.No internal frame,just a EMT ridge pole/3 up rights and 1/2" EMt side wall poles.

I heat with a 30K propane Blue Flame heater and don't accept a trouble

Posted By: T_O_M

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/05/12

For the wintertime utilize, I look to use a heater. For bound, summer, and fall, it'southward warm enough that's non needed. May be raining but it's not particularly cold. I don't want to have to utilize a heater just to manage condensation when it's not needed for warmth.

Same reason I want an integral floor. In winter, no large deal, similar yous said, utilise a poly tarp. In fact, I'd probably merely utilise a poly tarp under part of it and leave the balance open up so there'southward a place to get in out of the rain before having to have the boots off. Only in summertime specially, the bugs are a problem, especially the ones that come directly out of the basis, don't have to wing into the tent.

I could do 2 tents, I'd rather attempt to practice it with just one. In the past, I'd just utilise a big backpacking tent to sleep in with a tarp overhead for more out-of-the-pelting space. It worked merely I want to run across if I can do it better yet. Could be what works in the Rockies isn't quite right for Oregon, dissimilar times of yr for mud, bugs, different temperature curves, etc., so what works for you might not be quite right for me.

Tom

Take you considered a small popular-up trailer?

Posted By: T_O_M

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/05/12

Have you lot considered a small pop-up trailer?

Aye, idea about that. It's a partially feasible solution only there's no way my current truck would drag any trailer into some of my spots if only because the receiver mount is already hitting basis crossing some of the deep h2o bars ... with the extra length of a plug-in for the hitch ball, I'd span with the hitch and front tires on the footing, rear tires up in the air. A camper crush aka awning has some utilize, but my truck bed is exactly vi feet long, non quite long enough for me to sleep in comfortably. A camper that extends out to tailgate length would be ok but might exist too heavy for me to cantankerous those h2o bars.

I'm pretty sure a tent is my all-time pick unless I want to purchase a different truck first. That's a whole 'nother discussion I don't desire to bog downwardly in.

Posted By: PrimeBeef

Re: Tents for elk hunting / auto camping - 06/06/12

A good three-1/ii flavor tent is 1 of the "Springbar" clones - Cabelas sells them at present, only I bought mine off the bay. It's a 10'x10', lite sail with a reinforced, waterproof flooring. There's likewise a 10'x14'. Very like shooting fish in a barrel & quick to ready. I apply a small propane heater to knock off the chill. Has held upwardly very well in strong wind and/or hail here in NM.

Posted By: 4th_point

Re: Tents for elk hunting / machine camping - 06/06/12

I second the Springbar or Kodiak recommendation. I had a 10x14 Kodiak... very well fabricated with some features that differ slightly compared to the Springbar. Its a good, solid blueprint that is easy for one person to gear up-up quickly. The canvas breathes well, and the pole blueprint gives it practiced strength.

I think the white material and the style that information technology breathes makes information technology much libation than a synthetic tent during the summer months. I remember the beginning fourth dimension I used it in Eastern Oregon for archery flavor. We had to prepare-upward in the middle of a immigration with no shade. I hunted till mid-day and came back to the tent and when i unzipped the door I was expecting a blast of hot air but it was absurd! In winter, I used some tarps over the ridge pole and sides to assist the snow slide off.

These tents are heavy and bulky, but these aren't a problem for your state of affairs.

Having said that, I sold my Kodiak and bought an 8x8 XWT from Cabelas. Its a little harder to ready-upward and I don't recall information technology will be equally cool in the summer, but I think information technology volition handle snow better than the Kodiak. The Kodiak, even with tarps needed the snow pushed off every now and and then. Plus, the smaller XWT will be easier for me to heat. The 10x14 Kodiak needed a expert bargain of propane during last year's snowfall storm. I used to advocate, "get the biggest tent that yous can afford and booty", but now I like to "utilise the smallest tent that meets my needs." Right now snowfall loads, bombproof in air current, easy to oestrus, and meaty size are of import to me and my situation. Althought the XWT is merely 8x8 and I can't fully stand up in it, its even so fairly easy to set up-upward and it has something the Kodiak doesn't... a ~4x8 vestibule.

Still, for what y'all describe I remember a Kodiak or Springbar would be something to consider.

Posted By: macrabbit

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/06/12

I've got the XWT in 10x10 and 8x8, am very happy. No wind or snow will have it down. Can be used both tent and fly, which I usually do, or tent but, which I've done, or fly but, which I oasis't yet done- I hate crawly things in the dark!

Posted By: JRaw

Re: Tents for elk hunting / auto camping - 06/06/12

I'm looking for a car camping tent. Not a backpacking tent. Something at least, but non a lot more than, 8 feet in i management, maybe ten, possibly 12 the other. I need a 4-flavor tent with a flooring that is not too difficult for 1 person to put upward alone even in the air current. I'd prefer double wall ... I don't want to HAVE to utilise a heater to manage condensation. I desire something to use both for elk camp and for summer auto camping. Sort of a base-camp type tent. Weight is no upshot and bulk is non much of one.

Thoughts / suggestions?

This description appears to describe the Cabela'southward Alaska Guide, 6- or maybe eight-homo.

Posted By: T_O_M

Re: Tents for elk hunting / motorcar camping ground - 06/06/12

Is that the hexagonal tent you're talking about? Looks interesting!

Posted By: JRaw

Re: Tents for elk hunting / auto camping - 06/06/12

Yeah, the hexagonal 1, of which I accept the 6 homo. I haven't used it, then far, other than family unit car camping. Lots of folks in Alaska really like it for trips where weight is not an issue. Ventilation is not great, so it might non be best in a hot and sunny climate, only that's the toll you pay for air current, pelting, and snow resistance.

I have the fiberglass poles, considering I scored a deal in the Deal Cave. Aluminum poles are considered amend for several reasons, but one is that they lack the ferrules and slide into the tent body, making setup a easier. I tin gather mine solo; it would merely be a little easier and less annoying with aluminum poles.

Posted Past: KC

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/07/12

I'chiliad looking for a car camping ground tent. Not a backpacking tent. Something at to the lowest degree, merely not a lot more than, eight anxiety in 1 direction, perhaps 10, maybe 12 the other. I need a 4-season tent with a floor that is not too hard for one person to put up alone even in the wind. I'd prefer double wall ... I don't want to HAVE to use a heater to manage condensation. I want something to utilize both for elk camp and for summer car camping. Sort of a base-military camp type tent. Weight is no issue and bulk is not much of one.
Thoughts / suggestions?

T O Yard:

You might desire to take a look at a Cabelas XPG, iv-flavour, 6-man tent. I have personally field tested it in miserable atmospheric condition conditions and it'south bomb proof. That's a very practiced value for the money and it meets the criteria that yous mentioned.

Another posters take suggested Cabelas single-wall Alanak tent and one poster even recommended a canvas wall tent. But I don't think those are very good choices for summer automobile camping.

KC

Posted By: T_O_M

Re: Tents for elk hunting / machine camping - 06/07/12

Thanks! That's a good looking tent. I'one thousand hoping to go by a Cabela's shop on Saturday so I can look at some of the options in person.

Tom

Posted By: raybass

Re: Tents for elk hunting / automobile camping - 06/08/12

Accept a await at this one TOM: Cabelas Outback

I take the 12X12 and have used for a few years with good results.

Posted By: Ranch13

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping ground - 06/08/12

I'm looking for a car camping tent. Not a backpacking tent. Something at least, just not a lot more than, 8 anxiety in 1 management, maybe 10, possibly 12 the other. I need a 4-flavor tent with a flooring that is not too hard for ane person to put upward alone even in the current of air. I'd prefer double wall ... I don't want to HAVE to use a heater to manage condensation. I desire something to use both for elk camp and for summer car camping ground. Sort of a base-military camp type tent. Weight is no upshot and bulk is not much of i.

Thoughts / suggestions?

I have one of these Kodiak'due south in the 10x10 ft.http://www.cabelas.com/product/Kodiak174-Canvas-Flex-Bow-Tent/715015.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch.cmd%3Fform_state%3DsearchForm%26N%3D0%26fsch%3Dtrue%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3DKodiak%2Btent%26WTz_l%3DHeader%253BSearch-All%2BProducts%26x%3D12%26y%3D14&Ntt=Kodiak+tent&WTz_l=Header%3BSearch-All+Products
It heats hands with a buddy heater or even a coleman lantern volition continue it warm. The biggest depict back is the floor, but a throw carpet on the inside and a door mat on the outside unter the awning takes care of virtually of the dirt/mud tracking in trouble. Information technology will stand up upwardly to horrific winds, and has yet to leak.
I have 1 of the old Cabela's Alaknak's and if a person wants to freeze to death when y'all're traveling calorie-free, that is surely the tent to have, and don't forget the tarp and cot that keeps your bed off the flooring cuz if it rains, snows wet , there will be water continuing on the inside...

Posted By: 4th_point

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping ground - 06/09/12

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T O M:

Another posters have suggested Cabelas single-wall Alanak tent and ane poster fifty-fifty recommended a sheet wall tent. Merely I don't think those are very expert choices for summer car camping.

KC

Did you lot mean "wintertime" camping? For summertime, both those tents rock. A Kodiak/Springbar can be set up-upwards as fast or faster than a large nylon dome especially ane with sleeves and breathes ameliorate than any nylon tent. Its technically not a wall tent in the classic sense either. The Alaknak and Outback Lodge both gear up pretty fast too. I used a 12x12 Outback for a few seasons with a woodstove.

None of the above are my start choice for snow, merely neither is a wall tent.

Posted By: KC

Re: Tents for elk hunting / motorcar camping - 06/09/12

4th bespeak:

No. I meant summer car camping.

A friend owns an Alanak tent, which I take helped setup and slept in for several nights. It's at the bottom my list for any use because it's a unmarried-wall waterproof tent and then it doesn't breathe and condensation is a problem. To me it feels kind of "muggy" when it'south warm and when nighttime time temps drop below zero the condensation freezes on the within of the walls. Warm days and below-freezing nights are mutual in Colorado summers.

Canvass wall tents are slap-up for wintertime car camping because they generally come with a stove. Merely IMO information technology's a lot easier to setup a nylon dome tent than a canvas wall tent so the dome tent is a meliorate solution for coincidental summer car camping.

I'm non familiar with the Outback Lodge or Kodiak Springbar, so can't comment.

KC

Posted By: 4th_point

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping ground - 06/09/12

Ok KC, that makes sense. The Outback Lodge is similar... singlewall waterproof. I had to go along the windows and doors open in warm weather to go on it absurd, which wouldn't have worked so well with a warm rain!

The Kodiak never got that muggy feeling, but it also didn't seem to hold the heat that well due to the breathability. A small woodstove would be an piece of cake modernistic, or propane. Double walls do seem to exhale meliorate and concur heat amend with that layer of air under the wing than a nylon single wall. The single walls are easy to set-up though.

One downside to the Outback and Alaknak are that they tin act like a bellows and pump smoke from a stove into the living expanse! The Outback did this under certain conditions, and if yous watch the Alaknak video at Cabela'due south you can become an idea of this bellows bear on with the wind moving the walls in and out.

Posted Past: KC

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping ground - 06/09/12

quaternary betoken:

I have sort of settled on a propane space heater in a big dome tent for wintertime automobile camping. I also use that setup when I rent a horse to pack in a camp. Everything is lighter and simpler that way. I know there are light weight alternatives only you lot take to mortgage your habitation to buy them.

We only run the space heater when we are awake and I figure that's nigh the same as a wood burning stove considering the stove volition get out when you lot get to sleep.

What does "springbar" mean?

KC

Posted By: raybass

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/09/12

fourth bespeak good info, I accept been usng a propane heater in my Outback tent and was considering a wood stove to use in it. Might just stick with the propane heater, we only employ it while awake and while in use the lesser vents are opened. Using a cot with the vents open there is a slight breeze across your body. Not much sweating inside that mode. Also take the tiptop vents opened at the peak.

Posted Past: Magnum_Man

Re: Tents for elk hunting / machine camping - 06/09/12

Yes, the hexagonal one, of which I have the vi man. I haven't used it, so far, other than family auto camping ground. Lots of folks in Alaska really like it for trips where weight is not an consequence. Ventilation is not great, so it might not exist best in a hot and sunny climate, but that's the price y'all pay for wind, rain, and snow resistance.

I accept the fiberglass poles, because I scored a deal in the Bargain Cave. Aluminum poles are considered ameliorate for several reasons, but 1 is that they lack the ferrules and slide into the tent body, making setup a easier. I tin assemble mine solo; it would just be a fiddling easier and less annoying with aluminum poles.

I have used the glass pole model for the last six years summer & fall camping more often than not it will keep you dry and stand upwards in 50-lx mph winds. Room for 2 cots and tin can stand up to pull on your pants. 3 vent panels in the inside dome and window panels adequate in my book. Got mine also in the Deal Cave at Cabelas for $200 kickoff 3 nites I used it vs a motel room paid for itself. I recently picked up ane of those Mr Heater propane heaters for cold weather use and probably won't allow it run during sleep fourth dimension either. Magnum human

Posted By: ribka

Re: Tents for elk hunting / machine camping ground - 06/10/12

I have the 12x12 . Cannot beat it for the cost, ease and comfort

I'd probably opt for the Cabelas Alaknak in your situation.

The come in 8x8, 12x12, and 12x20.

I had the 12x12 before I went to a wall tent. They are very, very expert tents.

Meridian notch gear.

Posted By: 4th_point

Re: Tents for elk hunting / machine camping - 06/10/12

4th point:

I have sort of settled on a propane infinite heater in a big dome tent for wintertime car camping ground. I also use that setup when I hire a horse to pack in a camp. Everything is lighter and simpler that way. I know there are light weight alternatives only you take to mortgage your home to buy them.

We only run the space heater when we are awake and I figure that's about the aforementioned as a wood burning stove considering the stove will go out when you lot become to slumber.

What does "springbar" mean?

KC

I sold the woodstove and practise the same as you... propane heater, simply just while awake. Very piece of cake and no wood hauling, cutting, stacking, ashes, etc. Sometimes one or two propane lanterns is enough estrus (but loud).

Springbar is the proper noun of a tent made by Kirkhams in UT. Not too many canvas tents like it. The roof is under a good deal of tension and these tents tin tolerate a quite a bit of wind. Very easy for one person to set-up.

Springbar

Regarding the Kodiak, I heard/read that an employee left Kirkhams and started Kodiak. Kodiak uses the same basic pattern but with some secondary differences. From what I understand and have read, neither company bad mouths the other. They are very like, but fill up somewhat different niches (Springbar is US made, Kodiak is made in Prc with non-United states canvas). I had a Kodiak, but communicated with Springbar a good bargain. I would happily own either, if they suited my needs.

Posted By: 4th_point

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/10/12

4th point good info, I accept been usng a propane heater in my Outback tent and was considering a wood stove to employ in it. Might just stick with the propane heater, we just use it while awake and while in use the lesser vents are opened. Using a cot with the vents open there is a slight breeze across your body. Not much sweating inside that way. Also have the elevation vents opened at the height.

The bellows touch on didn't happen often, but when it did it sucked! Actually blew... fume!

I've used Buddy blazon heaters and the Mr Heater sunflower heaters but have likewise been looking at NuWay vented propane stoves and Olympian cats. I waffled too long and missed out on a vented diesel Hunter mil stove. My 8x8 XWT seems besides small for a stove (plus its difficult to run stovepipe through a doublewall) so I've considered putting it in the vestibule but I don't know how effective this would exist. It would certainly encapsulate the tent body with a layer of warm air but it sounds like an experiment. It seems like a unmarried propane lantern will provide a lot of heat in this tent (haven't used it in the cold yet).

Posted Past: raybass

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping ground - 06/ten/12

In cool weather I use the lantern for heat also, but when it starts getting really cold the Large Buddy gets broke out. Its overnice to just reach over and turn it on without getting out of the sack.

Posted By: T_O_M

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping ground - 06/10/12

Regarding the Outback Gild .. what vintage? One of the guys I camped with final weekend has an older one. It has a sort of beak over the door which seems to keep the rain from falling inside the tent when the door is open up. It doesn't wait similar the newer ones take that characteristic.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it to Cabela's Sabbatum after all (get-go priority was my nieces HS graduation) then I'm still researching. There's really no rush, piffling less than ideal but I certainly tin go by with tents I have 'til elk flavour in October.

Tom

Posted By: 4th_point

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/11/12

Regarding the Outback Gild .. what vintage? One of the guys I camped with terminal weekend has an older one. It has a sort of beak over the door which seems to keep the rain from falling inside the tent when the door is open up. Information technology doesn't look similar the newer ones take that characteristic.

Tom

I recall the model you lot are describing with the beak is actually the Alaknak. The Outback Lodge is more than like a iv-sided tee-pee.

The Outback was pretty good for what it is, but the zipper on mine failed during a hellacious snowfall tempest. I bought the Outback even after reading all the problems with the zipper and figured I could bargain with it. Well, elk flavor came and my buddy and I were doing well with the woodstove stoked and snow flying. He goes into deep sleep and I go outside to get another load of wood... and then the attachment gets so messed up I couldn't get information technology unstuck for cipher. I fiddled with it for awhile, and then the air current picks up, and nosotros get a full-on blizzard... with the door open!

While my buddy is cutting logs in his sleep (amazing since the tent is shaking at this point from the wind and snow), I sit down there trying to effigy out a way to get the door shut. I concluded up sewing the door shut, and cutting the mesh screen out of the window and using the window as the new door.

Next trip to Cabela's, that tent went direct to client service for a refund. I hear that the latest ones have a amend zipper, but I notwithstanding haven't found out if I had the new version or the old version.

If yous are thinking about the Outback, do a niggling research on the zipper. I liked that tent other than the zipper and would be willing to use one again. I'd just accept a practiced expect at that attachment get-go (I had cutting the extra material near the zipper off previous to this too for proficient measure).

And, be aware that the Cabela'southward warranty is no longer lifetime. I think you go 3 months on tents at present.

If y'all don't mind domes, the Guide looks decent (couple friends use these), the XPG looks good equally KC mentioned, and the XWT is pretty stout. I recall the XWT is like Cabela's version of the Artic Oven (AO is evidently the all-time of this manner though, and priced appropriately). I can ready the 8x8 XWT up pretty easy with the pitch kit (has a centre hub too), probably easier than domes with sleeves or clips.

Adept luck,

Jason

Posted Past: Ranch13

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/xi/12

What they call the Outback nowdays is what the original Alaknaks were only those were fabricated out of some sort of white nylon cheese cloth. The only affair that didn't leak is the floor.

Posted By: raybass

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/eleven/12

Mine has never leaked just I have a problem with the zipper. Planning on having a new metal zipper installed, that should set information technology up.

Posted Past: Whiptail

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/11/12

I accept a 12x12 Alaknak. For the money it's a very good tent despite being made in Prc but I wouldn't utilize information technology in the summer because it's like a greenhouse and doesn't breathe likewise as three flavour tent. If yous use a wood stove with it condensation isn't a problem just with propone it is.

Posted By: GSSP

Re: Tents for elk hunting / auto camping ground - 06/11/12

Springbar!!!

I've winter camped for ii weeks in No. Arizona on several occasions with temps in the teens at nighttime. Ran a Mr Heater off a 5-gal propane tank. Simply cracked the back window about two" and the front door nigh 2". Could just run around in the tent in my skivies and slumber on top of my sleeping bag. My teenage son sleeps out in the back thou with friends and living near the mouth of a canyon we get 20-40 mph winds near nightly. Tent simply snears at it.

Alan

Posted Past: T_O_M

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/11/12

I've looked really hard at the XWT. The only thing that'southward stopped me so far is watch a friend struggle for almost an hour to put his up. He was soaked in sweat before finishing. I wonder if the "pitch kit" would improve that situation.

I might take helped but I was helping some of the gals put up their tents ... guy has to have some priorities, correct?

I've read about the zippers on the outback social club. And then they ARE that bad, huh? Never know whether it's a product problem or if yous're hearing from some mental midget who is too dumb or too drunk to operate a zipper.

I have zippo against dome tents in full general. The more vertical the wall is, the better, specially with cots. Sloped walls, some lost space. Alternate .. centre pole, also some lost infinite.

Tom

I have the 12x12 . Cannot beat it for the price, ease and condolement

I'd probably opt for the Cabelas Alaknak in your situation.

The come in 8x8, 12x12, and 12x20.

I had the 12x12 before I went to a wall tent. They are very, very expert tents.

Top notch gear.

The Alaknaks are very nice tents. They can become VERY hot if they are placed in the sun, but so practise all tents to some extent. Pitch them in the shade and they aint that bad at all.

The Outback Club that some people mentioned are adequately junky in my opinion. The zippers are weak, the design is poor, the fabric isn't dandy, the ropes are weak, etc. I've got the 8x8 and it's not even in the same class every bit the Alaknak. The simply reason I bought it was considering I got it for $40 bucks at a Cabelas sidewalk sale. I propose staying abroad from the Outback.

If I was buying a tent today, I'd probably become a Seek Outside 12 man.

Posted By: macrabbit

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping ground - 06/eleven/12

I accept two XWTs, 8x8 and 10x10. I'm a 97-lb weakling and tin can raise both, in the field, solo. (A second person helping to elevate the fly over the larger tent -I'one thousand a shrimp, as well- is appreciated, it'south true.)
Commencement thing I did after buying the tent was to investigate and practise on the back lawn. And so I wrote my own step-past-step instructions (which I'thou willing to share, if anyone is so inclined; though parts of it are specific to my system, including what item goes into which bag, etc.)
To me, it's a cinch.
And I don't call back the Dry Pitch kit would make information technology easier. I ain one for each, use the tarp for added protection, and have practiced setting up the Dry Pitch style, merely take non needed to under rainy conditions. Information technology's a way to get the wing up offset and deal with the tent underneath afterwards, and carries its own lilliputian difficulties considering one is working in reverse of normal.

I actually like my tents. I use the large i for group hunts, luxuriate in the smaller on my solos.
A propane lantern sufficiently heats the 8x if temps aren't much below freezing; I employ a Little Buddy heater for then and for the 10x.

(One must watch the tension on the main door as the tent relaxes or contracts with temp or load, and adjust a couple of straps accordingly, lest one overstrain the zipper.)

Posted Past: Jcvibby

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 06/27/12

marmot limestone 6 is a big tent! walls are fairly straighy up and downward. Really big entry way to take off wearing apparel, boots, and put gear you dont want to bring inside. I call up it comes in green or blackness, although I have the orange color.

It holds upwardly to loftier winds, all the rain you tin can requite information technology, and about everything. Pretty solid tent, I gear up mine up in most 15 minutes from beginning to finish.

Posted Past: T_O_M

Re: Tents for elk hunting / auto camping - 06/27/12

macrabbit:

cheers, just noticed your answer. that'southward useful info. I oasis't "bought" nonetheless, nevertheless contemplating.

I somewhat relieved the immediacy of need. For this summer's utilise, I got one of REI's two person bug tents, pretty much aforementioned dimensions every bit my sometime One-half Dome, but 100% screen, no fly, so it should breath really well in warm areas.

Tom

Posted Past: gunnut308

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 07/12/12

Honey my 12x14 wall tent. I use the minor tent for a "storage shed"

Posted By: Biggs300

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 07/13/12

On this year'south CO elk hunt my hunting buddy and I will be setting upward a blank-bones spike campsite at but over 8,000+ ft. in the San Juan National forest. I'chiliad using a Integral Designs Sil Dome tarp tent with no flooring, along with a adept, lightweight bivy sack and a comfy pad. He is using a 2-human being, 3 season tent. Since we volition be camping/hunting for only 3 days, I'm satisfied we will have a decent setup. Much longer, I would want more fauna comforts.

Posted Past: Lhook7

Re: Tents for elk hunting / auto camping - 07/15/12

Based on the suggestions here I decided to purchase the Cabelas XWT. I was going to society online, but the 8x8 dry set pitch kit was on back order. I drove to the Sidney shop yesterday and they had everything; better yet the tent was but $479 in the shop vs $619 online!

Cool. Looking forward to hearing your review.

Posted By: macrabbit

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping ground - 07/xv/12

If you'd like a copy of my anal prepare-upward instructions in PDF, simply ask.
Mayhap I can export them to Word, and so make them easily editable and personalizable.

Posted By: baltz526

Re: Tents for elk hunting / auto camping ground - 07/fifteen/12

I picked up A 10x10 kodiak with all the extras final winter for exactly what original affiche intent is. Having played with tents for the last 40plus years. I tin detect no real faults with the kodiak. Easy to prepare, well made, no condensation near perfect for car camping. BUT they are 2 guy tents with the 10x14 MAX. I bought my 10x10 for ME and my chukar dog, that will be comfortable spacewise.

Posted By: Lhook7

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 07/15/12

macrabbit,

Cheers for the offer. PDF is fine for me. My email address is XXXXXXX

Posted By: macrabbit

Re: Tents for elk hunting / machine camping ground - 07/16/12

I'thou on the road, it might take me a week or so.

Posted By: hunting1

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 07/16/12

I love my Kodiak/Springbars with the Mr Heater! Would non want to be in a big heavy snow, only wind, rain, etc. no bug.

I accept the Cabela's Outback as well and similar information technology for quick gear up in nice weather, just if you run propaine in a single wall nylon tent information technology rains with condensation. Everything in the tent will exist wet. I swear it took a calendar week for the within to completeley dry.

Posted Past: Lhook7

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 07/16/12

I'm on the route, it might take me a week or and so.

No trouble. I capeesh the offering. I'll PM you my electronic mail address and delete it from my postal service then I don't get his with a bunch of spam.

Posted By: macrabbit

Re: Tents for elk hunting / motorcar camping - 07/16/12

Skilful thinking.

Posted By: macrabbit

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping ground - 07/21/12

Email sent.

Posted By: Lhook7

Re: Tents for elk hunting / motorcar camping - 07/21/12

Received and responded. Thanks very much.

Posted Past: TERRY8mm

Re: Tents for elk hunting / automobile camping - 07/21/12

Great for truck camping. Easy to gear up. Plenty of ventilation and light.

Sportsmans Guide, 10'x10', or larger pyramid. Comes in larger sizes also.

I got i on sale for cheap.

Posted By: macrabbit

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping ground - 07/21/12

I've emailed a couple of yous with my instructions. I'm open to any comments, criticisms, or suggestions that come to mind. I'm always set up to improve.

Posted By: hapa5756

Re: Tents for elk hunting / machine camping ground - 07/21/12

I will have some feedback for you when I become the tent this week and endeavor to set it up. Talk about professional formatting and detailed didactics. One question I have is practise you find putting the tent up first equally opposed to the fly-first better?

Posted By: macrabbit

Re: Tents for elk hunting / car camping - 07/21/12

Wing showtime would be the Dry Pitch method.
I did it once, as practice, merely forget most of the experience. I think it's clumsier (though do-able, and a handy method if raining), as some of the higher attachments volition be hard to reach while y'all're straining cramped between fly and tent.
(My instructions are for the way I do it, and that is tent first. The Dry Pitch method, since the DP kit is 'sold separately', is a secondary method.)

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