Anyone used any of these? Looks like a good way to stay dry and off the ground. I'm looking at this one:
http://www.kodiakcanvas.com/truck-tents/
http://www.kodiakcanvas.com/truck-tents/
naw, if my wife is with me I can just pitch a tent in the drivers seat. 
I have. I found it to be more of a pain than anything else. You lose much of your storage space (i.e., being able to leave things in back of truck, etc.). Also, laying on the bed of a truck isn't any more comfortable than laying on the ground, or any more warm either. For several reasons, I prefer a normal tent. A 3" self-inflating mattress is surprisingly comfortable (and well insulating from the ground), if you haven't tried one. I regularly use, and love, this one: http://www.cascadedesigns.com/therm-a-rest/mattresses/camp-and-comfort/luxurymap/product.
What do you not like about a normal tent?
What do you not like about a normal tent?
My preference
http://www.leer.com/#truck-caps
http://www.leer.com/#truck-caps
1) Where I hunt is on a mountain in southeastern OK. It's really difficult to get all your stakes driven and you ALWAYS end up losing several and have several others that won't really hold anything. I think there may be about 3" of dirt on top of all that rock.
2) All that rock is lumpy as hell and I can never get comfortable.
3) The floors always get punctured by all that rock and leak. I hate wet sleeping bags!
At least with one of these I could level the truck with a jack or park a wheel on a rock and there's no stakes to deal with, it all straps to the truck and then there's that floor thing that's fixed with these. Those mattresses do look cool, I hadn't seen those. I was looking at these for the pickup bed but might could use a cot too. http://truckairbedz.com/Airbedz-Lite
Mine too but the checkbook doesn't care for them one bit and these are taller.
I don't think the R-value on those air mattresses would be that great which would make for a cold night.
3) The floors always get punctured by all that rock and leak. I hate wet sleeping bags!
You could put a tarp underneath the tent. Cheap, rugged, and water proof.
Is this your place? Can you prep the area? Bring a younger hunter for a "free" hunt and have him move some dirt for ya as payment.
You could put a tarp underneath the tent. Cheap, rugged, and water proof.
Is this your place? Can you prep the area? Bring a younger hunter for a "free" hunt and have him move some dirt for ya as payment.
Once again I surprise myself and agree with the guy from Yukon with a Glock.
Sleeping off the ground is nearly always colder that sleeping on the ground (unless you're in a camper with supplemental heat source)
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Screw tents....
Your truck appears to think it's a rap starScrew tents....
