01 What makes it unique
The 29TH is the big Ambush, and the published numbers say to bring the big truck. Palomino lists a 10,995-pound GVWR against a 7,813-pound dry weight on a 1,440-pound tongue — the heaviest plan of the three on every count, and with garage cargo still to load.
The one number that argues back is the cargo margin: 3,182 pounds of CCC is 75 pounds LESS than the shorter 27TH carries, because the extra three and a half feet of trailer spend their weight on structure rather than payload headroom. You buy the 29TH for the floor length, not for extra cargo capacity. The tank set is the standard 43 / 35 / 35 gallons, the height the standard 12 feet 2 inches, and the electric awning runs 21 feet — the longest of the sub-line. No garage length is published for this plan; the strings the factory page shows against “Garage” are photo-gallery captions, not specifications, so measure the bay at a dealer.
Published equipment for the sub-line is the two named packages on the Ambush detail pages: Value Leader (tankless water heater, Super Lube axles, LED, WiFi prep) and Elite (electric awning, 13,500 BTU low-profile air conditioner with heat pump, 11-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, AlphaPly TPO roof with lifetime warranty, spare tire, front diamond plate). Package inclusion on a given unit is not asserted here, and no MSRP is published — confirm delivered equipment and pricing with a dealer.
How the 29TH differs from the other 25 Puma travel trailers. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.
- Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 18.4%: largest of 26; next is the 27TH (18.3%).
- Cargo capacity, 3,182 lb: second-largest of 26, between the 39FKL (2,731 lb) and the 27TH (3,257 lb).
- Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 28.9%: third-largest of 24, between the 39FKL (20.3%) and the 25TH (30.4%).
- Dry weight, 7,813 lb: sixth-lightest of 26, between the 310RK (7,763 lb) and the 30RKQS (7,974 lb).
- Length, 37 ft 6 in: eighth-shortest of 26, between the 337BH (37 ft 1 in) and the 31FKRK (37 ft 11 in).
- GVWR, 10,995 lb: tenth-lowest of 25, between the 32BHQS (10,800 lb) and the 32BHFS (11,308 lb).
- Grey tank, 35 gal: smallest of 26, level with the 25TH, 27TH and six others; next are the 31FKRK, 38RLB and two others (65 gal).
- Tongue weight, 1,440 lb: shared with the 39FKL; of 26, fifteen lighter and nine heavier, nearest the 39DBT (1,439 lb) and the 39BHK (1,445 lb).
- Exterior height, 12 ft 2 in: shared with the 25TH and 27TH; of 26, fourteen lower and nine taller, nearest the 37PFL, 38DEN and four others (11 ft 9 in) and the 38VFL, 401RLFT and seven others (13 ft 4 in).
Next to the 310RK, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 29TH is 50 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,732 lb higher, has 1,682 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 600 lb heavier, is 2 ft longer, stands 11 in taller and has a grey tank 35 gal smaller; the two publish the same fresh tank and black tank.
Next to the 30RKQS, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 29TH is 161 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,395 lb higher, has 1,556 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 355 lb heavier, is 1 ft 5 in longer, stands 1 ft 1 in taller and has a grey tank 35 gal smaller; the two publish the same fresh tank and black tank.
02 Full specifications
Dimensions
- Exterior length
- 37' 6"
- Exterior height
- 12' 2"
- Exterior width
- 96"
Weights
- Dry / unit base weight (UVW)
- 7,813 lbs
- GVWR (max loaded)
- 10,995 lbs
- Net cargo / payload (CCC)
- 3,182 lbs
- Hitch / tongue weight
- 1,440 lbs
Capacities
- Fresh water
- 43 gal
- Grey water
- 35 gal
- Black water
- 35 gal
Toy-hauler garage
- Garage length
- Not published by source*
Running gear
- Hitch
- Bumper pull
- Axles
- Count not published · “Super Lube Axles” published in the Value Leader Package
- Axle rating
- Not published by source*
- Wheels & tires
- Spare tire published (Elite Package) · tire size not published*
Systems — factory packages, verbatim-derived
- Water heater
- Tankless — Value Leader Package
- A/C
- 13,500 BTU low profile w/ heat pump — Elite Package
- Refrigerator
- 11 cu ft 12-volt residential-style — Elite Package
- Roof
- AlphaPly TPO membrane w/ lifetime warranty — Elite Package
- Galley
- 21″ oven & range hood · 1.3 cu ft convection microwave w/ air fryer — Elite Package
- Awning
- Electric (Elite Package) · 21'
Layout
- Sleeps
- Not published by source*
- Slides
- Not published by source*
- Entries
- Not published by source*
How these published figures sit against the rest of the catalogue: travel trailer tongue weight by size; fresh, grey and black tank sizes; camper trailer size chart.
Drawn to scale
Weight budget
Size, with end view
Holding tanks
Axles, wheels and nose shape are schematic; not a floorplan. Data: dataset.
Towing it
Check your vehicle. Enter the ratings from your owner’s manual and the door-pillar placard.
Compares your figures with this page’s published GVWR (10,995 lb) and the upper loaded tongue estimate (1,649 lb, a rule of thumb). Your vehicle’s placard and the trailer’s own weight label govern.
Loaded range: 10–15% of GVWR on the tongue, a rule of thumb, not a measurement of this unit. No truck ratings or hitch classes (why; NHTSA, DOT HS 809 433). The range starts at the published figure, because loaded is never lighter than that.
03 The Puma Ambush roster
Puma Ambush is the toy-hauler tier of Palomino's Puma family — three plans on a bumper-pull travel-trailer chassis, sold under the parent Puma line and rostered on the Puma hub's Ambush section. The factory's own floorplan sentence for the 25TH opens “This Toy Hauler is a Travel Trailer” — the body-type call is the factory's, not this site's. Tongue weight climbs 845 → 1,235 → 1,440 lbs across the three lengths, and every plan carries the 43 / 35 / 35-gallon tank set. The cross-shops are Forest River's own value travel-trailer toy haulers: XLR Boost and the Cherokee Wolf Pack family.
04 Notes on this floorplan
Longer, not roomier in the payload
At 3,182 pounds the CCC is 75 pounds under the shorter 27TH's — the extra length buys floor, not cargo margin.
A 1,440-pound tongue
The heaviest of the sub-line before the garage is loaded — weigh the loaded combination.
No published garage length
The factory page's “Garage” strings are gallery captions, not specs — only the 25TH publishes a garage figure. Measure the bay against your machine.
Sleeps and slides are not published
No sleeping capacity, slide count or entry count is published for the sub-line — confirm the layout on the unit.
Weigh the loaded trailer
Dry weight is a factory estimate and garage cargo changes tongue load — weigh loaded and use a weight-distributing hitch.
05 How it compares
The 27TH — three and a half feet shorter, 1,075 pounds lighter dry, and it carries MORE cargo capacity.
The Wolf Pack family — Forest River's other travel-trailer toy-hauler roster, with long plans in this class.
Forest River's XLR Boost — the in-house value travel-trailer toy hauler cross-shop.
06 Loading it for a trip
A full 43-gallon fresh tank is about 357 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 11% of the Ambush 29TH’s 3,182 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,825 lb. Across 26 Puma travel-trailer floorplans the water share runs 11% to 28%, and 24 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Puma Ambush 27TH at 11% and Puma Vista 39FKL at 13%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).
07 Where this floorplan sits
Closest sibling: the Puma Ambush 27TH, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 5 of the 8 fields both publish (this plan first): length 37 ft 6 in vs 34 ft 1 in; dry weight 7,813 lb vs 6,738 lb; GVWR 10,995 lb vs 9,995 lb; cargo capacity 3,182 lb vs 3,257 lb; hitch weight 1,440 lb vs 1,235 lb. They match on fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.
| Puma travel-trailer plans | This plan | Position, low to high | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| GVWR (lb) | 10,995 | 10 of 25 | 8,553–15,299 |
| Dry weight (lb) | 7,813 | 6 of 26 | 6,173–13,499 |
| Cargo capacity (lb) | 3,182 | 25 of 26 | 1,261–3,257 |
| Hitch weight (lb) | 1,440 | 16–17 of 26 | 770–1,990 |
| Length | 37 ft 6 in | 8 of 26 | 29 ft 9 in–43 ft 1 in |
| Grey tank (gal) | 35 | 1–9 of 26 | 35–105 |
| Black tank (gal) | 35 | 2–19 of 26 | 30–70 |
Either side of it by GVWR: Puma 32BHQS is 195 lb lighter (10,800 lb GVWR); Puma 32BHFS is 313 lb heavier (11,308 lb GVWR).
| Nearest Puma travel-trailer siblings | Length | Sleeps | Dry (lb) | GVWR (lb) | CCC (lb) | Hitch (lb) | Fresh (gal) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puma Ambush 29TH | 37 ft 6 in | — | 7,813 | 10,995 | 3,182 | 1,440 | 43 |
| Puma Ambush 27TH | 34 ft 1 in | — | 6,738 | 9,995 | 3,257 | 1,235 | 43 |
| Puma Vista 37PFL | 40 ft 0 in | — | 9,749 | 11,749 | 2,000 | 1,335 | 43 |
| Puma Vista 38DEN | 40 ft 6 in | — | 10,434 | 12,434 | 2,000 | 1,295 | 43 |
| Puma 31RLQS | 36 ft 1 in | — | 8,808 | 10,500 | 1,692 | 975 | 43 |
| Puma 337BH | 37 ft 1 in | — | 7,463 | 9,263 | 1,800 | 770 | 43 |
All 29 Puma floorplans: Puma line hub.
| Other lines, nearest by GVWR | GVWR (lb) | Dry (lb) | Sleeps | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambush 29TH | 10,995 | 7,813 | — | 37 ft 6 in |
| Wildcat 305MBX | 10,998 | 7,850 | — | 35 ft 6 in |
| Coachmen Catalina 313RLTS | 10,999 | 8,968 | 4 | 36 ft 0 in |
| Eagle 320FBOK | 11,000 | 9,085 | 6 | 38 ft 0 in |
| Momentum 21G | 11,000 | 7,280 | 6 | 26 ft 11 in |
| Pause 22.4 | 11,000 | 8,904 | — | 26 ft 10 in |
| Voyage 3235FK | 11,000 | 8,052 | — | — |
Against the Ambush 29TH: the Wildcat 305MBX is 3 lb heavier and 2 ft shorter; the Coachmen Catalina 313RLTS is 4 lb heavier and 2 ft shorter; the Eagle 320FBOK is 5 lb heavier.
08 Common questions about the Ambush 29TH
How much does the Ambush 29TH weigh?
7,813 lb dry; 10,995 lb GVWR, the most it may weigh loaded.
How much can the Ambush 29TH carry?
3,182 lb, 29% of its GVWR (median across 855 travel trailers here: 23%). A full fresh tank uses 357 lb of it.
What is the tongue weight of the Ambush 29TH?
1,440 lb as published, 18% of the dry weight (median across 1,205 travel trailers here: 12%).
What size tow vehicle does the Ambush 29TH need?
A tow rating of at least 10,995 lb, plus payload for the loaded tongue weight, passengers and cargo.
What are the tank capacities on the Ambush 29TH?
Fresh 43, grey 35, black 35 gallons. Off hookups, fresh water runs out first.
How long is the Ambush 29TH?
37' 6" overall, tongue or pin box included.
From the figures above.
09 What this page publishes, and what it does not
13 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the Ambush 29TH. Not published: interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification.
Values marked with an asterisk are arithmetic on published figures or come from a single source; the flag travels into the downloadable spec sheet.
Sourcing rules: methodology.
10 Manuals & documents
Sources: forestriverinc.com (linked below); the full source note is at the foot of the page.
11 NHTSA safety record
NHTSA holds 21 recall campaigns and 38 owner complaints (model years 2005 on) against the Puma line (a recall and a complaint are not the same thing).
What to look at on a used one. Across the 38 complaints filed on this line the most-reported components are tires (26%), structure (21%) and equipment (16%).
Recall coverage here is not complete, and complaints are owners’ unverified reports (how this record is built). Check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy. Full tables are on the Puma line page.