KZ Sportsmen Fifth Wheel — 2024 Floorplans, Specs & Weights

01 What KZ publishes for the Sportsmen Fifth Wheel

K. Z., Inc., of Shipshewana, Indiana, lists 6 Sportsmen Fifth Wheel fifth wheels in its 2024 Sportsmen destination trailers & fifth wheels brochure. KZ prints a dry weight for every one profiled here, and each has a page of its own. It prints a GVWR for every one too. It prints a net carrying capacity for 6; on the 6 that carry both that and a GVWR, the dry weight plus the carrying capacity equals the GVWR exactly on 6. (How the data is verified.)

02 KZ Sportsmen Fifth Wheel models

KZ Sportsmen Fifth Wheel · 6 models

Model	Dry weight	Cargo (CCC)	GVWR	Tongue	Length	Sleeps	On this site
Sportsmen Fifth Wheel 231RK	6,340 lb	1,160 lb	7,500 lb	1,010 lb	24' 10"	5	Profiled
Sportsmen Fifth Wheel 251RL	7,170 lb	1,330 lb	8,500 lb	1,320 lb	29' 4"	5	Profiled
Sportsmen Fifth Wheel 292BHK	8,390 lb	1,610 lb	10,000 lb	1,650 lb	34' 10"	9	Profiled
Sportsmen Fifth Wheel 303MB	8,720 lb	1,280 lb	10,000 lb	1,590 lb	34' 2"	7	Profiled
Sportsmen Fifth Wheel 303RL	8,750 lb	1,250 lb	10,000 lb	1,530 lb	34' 2"	5	Profiled
Sportsmen Fifth Wheel 302BHK	9,030 lb	970 lb	10,000 lb	1,580 lb	35' 9"	10	Profiled

Read from KZ’s 2024 Sportsmen destination trailers & fifth wheels brochure, 6 Nov 2026. “Not published” means the maker prints no figure; nothing is filled from another model, year or dealer.

03 Reading KZ’s figures

A maker’s published weight is for a base trailer; options and dealer-installed equipment add weight to any particular unit. The federal weight label inside the trailer carries its own unloaded weight, cargo carrying capacity and GVWR (49 CFR 567 and 571.120): read it on the unit itself before any towing decision.

04 Documents

PDFKZ Sportsmen Fifth Wheel brochure (2024)kz-rv.com · read 6 Nov 2026

05 Recalls

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign affecting this line. The earliest was reported 27 Aug 2021 and the most recent 27 Aug 2021.

Reported	Campaign	Component	What can go wrong
27 Aug 2021	21V670000	Equipment	Increased propane pressure can enlarge the flames in gas appliances, increasing the risk of a fire.

Coverage is not complete: this list is a starting point, not a clearance (how it is built), so check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy and again before you tow.

NHTSA files this line as “Sportsmen FW”; campaigns filed under the plain Sportsmen name count on the Sportsmen page.

06 Owner-reported problems

A sweep of NHTSA’s complete complaint file — every safety-defect complaint NHTSA has received since 1 January 1995, matched on NHTSA’s own model field under every name this site publishes for the line — found no complaint naming this line. Treat that as no report found, not as a clean record: owners file under whatever name they were sold, and a newer or lower-volume line simply has fewer owners to file.

How this count is drawn. A report is counted here only when NHTSA’s own model field names this line. What the owner typed in the description is never used to attribute a report: our line names are ordinary English words, and an owner writing “imagine my surprise when the axle went” or naming the state of Montana is not reporting a Grand Design Imagine or a Keystone Montana.

Read these as reports, not as findings. Complaints are submitted by owners and NHTSA does not verify them; no complaint here has been confirmed as a defect, and none of them is a recall. The sample is also self-selected — only owners motivated to file appear in it — so a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Use the pattern, not the total: a component that keeps recurring is worth inspecting on any used unit. File or search complaints at NHTSA.

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What reviewers say

Independent reviews of this line, summarised in this site’s own words and linked to the original. Each says whether the reviewer actually towed or inspected the trailer. Reviews are opinions about the year and floorplan they looked at; every figure on this site still comes only from the maker’s own documents.

RV Travel (RVtravel.com) · 2024 231RK · by Tony Barthel, 2023-08-16

Not a hands-on test: written from the maker’s information and the reviewer’s own research.

Tony Barthel likes this small Sportsmen fifth wheel's floor plan quite a bit, plus its in-cabinet maintenance list, screen door protection and air-conditioner filtration. His complaints: a cheap plastic toilet, an almost-worthless bath fan, Trailer King tires he would replace, a 17-inch oven, floor ducts and no factory solar provision.

Liked

Floor plan
Maintenance list inside a kitchen cabinet
Screen door protection
A/C filtration

Criticised

Cheap plastic toilet
Almost-worthless bath vent fan
Tires he would replace; 17-inch oven
No factory solar provision

Read the review on rvtravel.com

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