Special Purpose Vehicle Marketed for Gun Owners

You know, I might have been more impressed had I not seen those being used for swamp tours (hence the long bench seats for the passengers). It doesn't seem like it has been particularly modified for hunting over the "tour bus" version save for the name.
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I agree but the basic platform is there and it would EDIT not0 be too hard tp make the changes needed to have a perfect vehicle. It would be perfect tp get you tp remote areas and you could turn it into a comfortable place to eat and sleep, but for God sakes get the heck out of that thing and walk around. That thing looks like it is all set up for shooting without getting out of the vehicle. Great idea but if it's purpose is to allow people to shoot without walking around then it is just wrong
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I just looked at all the photos and the is one of a guy shooting from inside the vehicle. I can understand if someone that wants to hunt but is wheelchair bound, but for a person that has the ability to walk that chooses to sit down in that thing and shoot it is just wrong and does not seem to be hunting to me.
 
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"that 4 foot square blind will make them never see that 20 foot truck below it"

That's why it says Bass Pro on the doors, so they'll think you're fishing. ;)


I want a 4x4 with a cherry picker on it so I can surf fish without getting wet. :)
I decided on the name over 20 years ago - PortaPier.
 
After I got my truck I was disappointed to discover that the truck was not made on the U.S.A. It is a sad thing to see our jobs being sent to Mexico. By the way a lot of Corvette owners were ticked off when Chevy started building their transmission in Mexico back in the late 90's.
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About the closest you can get to "Made in the U.S.A". with a current-production, mainstream truck is a Ford Ranger.

The Ranger is still assembled at the Twin Cities plant in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Although a great majority of the vehicle IS of U.S. origin, the engine (V6s), transmission, and electronics are still imported. (Germany for cast-iron-block V6 engines {Japan for the 4 cyl.}, U.S.A for the rare aluminum-block 4.0L V6s, Germany for 5-speed manual and 5-speed auto transmissions {Japan for 4-speed versions}, and Japan/China/Korea/Mexico for electronics.)

Of course, many people don't think they can survive with the smaller cab and bed of the Ranger, and go for a mega truck. Yet, they buy a Crew Cab with the super-short bed (which is smaller than a flare-side Ranger's bed...), and the mega truck has lower towing capacity than a 4.0L/Automatic Ranger ('03 and newer 4.0L, 4x4 Rangers have higher payload and towing capacity than most 1/2 ton full size trucks -- look it up, you may be surprised).


Sadly, Toyota's truck line has nearly as many U.S.-sourced parts.

International needs to make good on their promise, and bring trucks back for the working man. A few years back, they said their soon-to-be-announced "civilian market" trucks would be 90% (or better) "Made in the U.S.A."
I'm already sold, if the damn things ever hit the market.
 
Sadly, Toyota's truck line has nearly as many U.S.-sourced parts.
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And mine was assembled in Texas. A buddy of mine gave me grief about buying a foreign truck until I showed him that mine was more American than his, LOL.

The notion of "Made in the USA" means virtually nothing when it comes to domestic vehicles.
 
What? Nobody gets out and walks anymore?

Nice truck, but I could do without the extra crap. Just gimme a standard bed, a camper shell and a tow hitch.
 
Hunting from a vehicle is fully legal in Texas, as long as you're not on a public right of way. On the ranch? Go ahead. After all, it's nothing but a portable blind on wheels instead of on your back or in your tactical wheelbarrow. :D

Lotsa south Texas brush country truck rigs with high seats. It's the only way you can ever see anything where thick brush is over head-high. The rigs let you look down into it.

Anything wider than my old '85 Toy 4WD PU is too fat to go through some of the narrow spots in my back country playground--narrow enough to fold the mirrors back. Can't even begin to get my '09 Tacoma through.
 
Not really interested in the whole package but that shooting platform on top, they could market a kit for any pickup. That would be a great rig to put some shooting benches up on top of it for shooting prairie dogs and other colony varmints. Pull in to a town be slightly elevated for better shots plus less chance of a ricochet with the shooting angles.
 
i'm of the mind that who cares how functional it is...it just looks cool:). not like i can ever afford it anyway.
 
Hunting from a vehicle is frowned upon by most states. I suppose the next innovation will be to have your game tethered on a leash.
 
Sorry, SC928, but your own hunting must have been rather limited. You need to see more of the world. There are many different types of hunting gear which have resulted from meeting local variants in terrain and vegetation. There is no "One size fits all," whether in basic methods or gear.
 
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