2026 Forest River Sabre38RVHUNTER

The 38RVHUNTER is Sabre’s outdoors-themed co-brand, developed with RV Hunter, and the heaviest, longest coach in the line. It pairs a private front bedroom with bunk beds, a bath-and-a-half, an island kitchen with a side-by-side refrigerator and washer/dryer prep, an electric fireplace, a desk with a fold-up bunk and a sleeper sofa, and a rear living area with oversized windows, under four slide-outs, sleeping seven. At 44 feet it is the longest Sabre, and at about 13,838 pounds dry it is the heaviest. It rides the full Sabre build: the Lippert M-19 welded I-beam chassis, vacuum-bond laminated sidewalls, a high-gloss gelcoat front cap and an electric auto-level system.

Forest River publishes a 13,838-pound UVW and a 2,552-pound CCC, which derive a 16,390-pound GVWR (the manufacturer’s own definition is that CCC equals GVWR minus UVW), against a 2,390-pound dry pin. Twin 15,000-BTU ducted air conditioners (prepped for a third), a tankless water heater, a 12-volt refrigerator, real wood lumbercore cabinetry, solid-surface countertops and smart projectors in the primary bedroom are standard. (The awning size for this plan is listed as to-be-determined on the factory page and is not yet confirmed.)

Published MSRP runs to roughly $126,000 with US street pricing far below placard (units have advertised near $73,000 to $74,500). It is the outdoors-co-branded, big-family Sabre. For a family that wants bunk beds, a bath-and-a-half, a side-by-side refrigerator, a desk with a fold-up bunk and a rear living area in the longest, most-equipped coach of the line — towed behind a properly rated three-quarter-ton or larger truck — the 38RVHUNTER is the line’s flagship.

Sabre is Forest River's affordable-luxury full-size fifth wheel — a half-step above the brand's own up-trim sibling Sandpiper toward the Cedar Creek luxury line, and a cross-shop against Grand Design's Reflection and Keystone's Cougar from just above. Six of the most distinct 2026 retail floorplans are profiled here in full. The 38RVHUNTER on this page is highlighted; each other plan links to its own page.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 49-gallon fresh tank is roughly 16% of the 2,552-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 38RVHUNTER with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 2,390 pounds is 17% of this floorplan’s 13,838-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 16,390-pound GVWR the 38RVHUNTER is towing 2,552 pounds more than its 13,838-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 49 gallons of fresh against 76 grey and 38 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 38RVHUNTER sits 5 of 6 in the Sabre line: 16,390 pounds against a line that runs from 13,508 to 16,425 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Sabre 37RVMILES is 20 pounds lighter at 16,370 lb GVWR; and Sabre 36DBB is 35 pounds heavier at 16,425 lb GVWR.

Against the 38RVHUNTER: the Momentum 320G is 10 lb heavier and 8 ft shorter and sleeps 1 fewer; the Blackthorn 3820DSL is 40 lb lighter and 2 ft shorter; the Columbus 377DS is 90 lb heavier and 1 ft shorter. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest fifth wheels from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Sabre floorplans profiled here run 10,658 to 13,838 pounds dry and 34 to 44 feet of exterior length across 6 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Sabre line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 18 of them for the 38RVHUNTER. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: tire size (a tire description is published, a size is not). If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (94%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

Values on this page carrying an asterisk were derived by arithmetic from published figures, or come from a single source, rather than being printed directly by the manufacturer. The flag travels with the number into the downloadable spec sheet.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.