Thread: Sleeping in your hunting vehicle

Yeh,,, should take care of the lack of leg-room under canopy, keep of weather and as side bonus a place to retreat to from sandflies and mozzies.

Originally Posted by trapperjohn

Seems like this could be handy...
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketpl...ing/5019044044

I was thinking about the same thing after seeing a ute with a tarp over the back parked up on the beach today. It's a fine line between freedom camping and homelessness in Northland. Anyway, I'd prefer an SUV for this kind of thing, but if you have a ute...

Originally Posted by MB

I was thinking about the same thing after seeing a ute with a tarp over the back parked up on the beach today. It's a fine line between freedom camping and homelessness in Northland. Anyway, I'd prefer an SUV for this kind of thing, but if you have a ute...

I think of freedom camping as a form of loitrering... nowhere to actually be and nothing to actually do,
however if your parked at a riverbed throwing a lure for trout or parked up at beach with surfcaster or at road end having
a siesta between hunts then your a camper with purpose...so not loitering.

I enjoy camping with purpose.

In my 2005 Forester I put the front seats forward and an old bed head with legs goes in the gap but you still don't have a flat surface so I put and air mattress there and had freezing night staying in Bannockburn as I should have used one of those insulated air mattress . I will make up something like yours .

So slept in the back of the dual cab ranger, the other night, so slept with the tail gate down.

I've done it in the past and it works really well. Previously, I've slept on the diagonal in an S shape, which results in a sore body, before the walk has even started.

Any how the drizzle came in and i tried shutting the back, but that sucked. So I put a feed bag over my sleeping back and left the back down, and it worked a treat. Can't say it will work 100% of the time. I think im going to get a little tarp made up to go from the rear glass to the tail gate.

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Originally Posted by Rn-85

So slept in the back of the dual cab ranger, the other night, so slept with the tail gate down.

I've done it in the past and it works really well. Previously, I've slept on the diagonal in an S shape, which results in a sore body, before the walk has even started.

Any how the drizzle came in and i tried shutting the back, but that sucked. So I put a feed bag over my sleeping back and left the back down, and it worked a treat. Can't say it will work 100% of the time. I think im going to get a little tarp made up to go from the rear glass to the tail gate.

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Not sure how high your glass lifts on your canopy but on my one the water flows to the hinge end of the glass and drips onto the back of the tray. Tarp would have to cover the glass and forward over a bit of the canopy to stop the drips.

Originally Posted by RUMPY

Not sure how high your glass lifts on your canopy but on my one the water flows to the hinge end of the glass and drips onto the back of the tray. Tarp would have to cover the glass and forward over a bit of the canopy to stop the drips.

Bloody hell, you're right. Thats why the rangers tray always has water in it after rain.

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When I slept in Terrano the other night it was still too hot with just sun roof open so I cracked the tailgate window open and placed container in opening so it stayed open all of a out 30mm. Worked a treat.rain wouldn't matter at all.

My canopy leaks where it meets the tray and the back of the cab, its been off and several times and always resealed yet still leaks. So no way would I sleep in the back in the rain.

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

My canopy leaks where it meets the tray and the back of the cab, its been off and several times and always resealed yet still leaks. So no way would I sleep in the back in the rain.

If you've resealed the main canopy/well body seal a few times, its likely something else leaking. Look around the windows. Park it on a hill in the rain, what stays wet/dry can give you some clues. That said, leaks, know how to travel.

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Originally Posted by Rn-85

If you've resealed the main canopy/well body seal a few times, its likely something else leaking. Look around the windows. Park it on a hill in the rain, what stays wet/dry can give you some clues. That said, leaks, know how to travel.

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My Crown canopy leaks by the little sliding window in the middle, between the canopy and cab. Water runs down the window and comes in through the bottom of that fuzzy seal.

It helps if I park on a slight incline, nose pointing down.

183cm sleeping platform in the back of the fj. We open the back window a bit for ventilation.

A $20 tarp over the top fixes most issues lol

buy a uni mog yeah ha ultimate camper wagon

Originally Posted by Friwi

Is the forester at the top of the list of the most stolen cars in nz?

I had a Forester (2006) stolen, I thought it had an alarm because the when I pressed the key fob button, the indicator lights flashed and it beeped. Turns out it was just central locking.

Luckily it was Meth head kids, who just drove it across Auckland and parked it when the petrol ran out. They left all my fishing gear! No damage but smelly from the Meth. Police caught the little fellas, it just shows that Meth doesn't improve one's ability to hide, or one's cognition.

My new (2009) Forester has an alarm that is factory fitted, I'm happy with that.