If you’re a hunting enthusiast who feels like you spend more time hauling equipment than shooting, it’s time to streamline the process. Learn how to customize your truck for hunting so you can just grab your gun and go.
Grille Guards
Nothing says business like front-end grille guards on your rig, but their purpose isn’t simply to intimidate your prey. Grille guards can protect your truck from brush and undergrowth—and any wild animals with a death wish. You can buy them in different strengths and for various environments.
Truck Bed Storage
Since it’s loaded up with your gear most of the time anyway, give your hunting paraphernalia a permanent home with truck bed boxes. You can build your own system or spend as much as you’ve got for a custom installation by professionals. Don’t forget to devote space to camping equipment, too.
Tonneau Cover
If you don’t mind hunting in the colder months, protect your truck bed with coverage. Tonneau Covers are one such option you can use to protect your truck. Soft, flexible covers can be folded or rolled up, or you can get harder, heavy-duty covers for the long haul. You’ll be protecting the contents of your truck from the weather and all the critters out there.
Additional Lighting
Your headlights aren’t going to cut it in the woods, and you can’t count on a full moon for help. A set of superior off-road lights will illuminate any situation you find yourself in. If you enjoy night hunting, a hunting light bar can offer adjustable intensity and colored lights your prey can’t see. If you want to save energy, you can choose energy-saving LEDs.
Truck Winch
When you leave the asphalt, all kinds of things can happen. Installing a utility winch can help hoist you out of tricky spots and bad weather conditions. Winches come in a wide range of forms and pulling capacities, so think positively while preparing for the worst.
Emergency Kit
The main reason to customize your truck for hunting is to make it more convenient to enjoy the outdoors. Your injury or death could prevent that. Increase your survival odds with a well-stocked, up-to-date kit in your truck’s storage with basic emergency tools in your new storage box system. In addition to a first aid kit, include road flares, an emergency blanket, clean water, and nonperishable snacks. Your loved ones will breathe easier if you also throw in jumper cables, a bare-bones toolbox, tow straps, a shovel, flashlight, and radio. When it’s you versus nature, you may not always win, but you can live to hunt another day.
