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Post by onebentarrow on Nov 2, 2020 21:06:17 GMT -5
How meny of you go to deer camp and what does it consist of.
Mine is a older 28 foot camper parked in a cut in the woods for a field tile. It is totally off grid. No generator. Run water pump off battery, same with lights what little I use them. I am sitting here with a gas Coleman lantern running and a small old old old propain heater for heat. I charge the phone off of the battery with a 12 v cigarette lighter plug.
Sorry about the long pause. Lantern just ran out of fuel and had to fill it up and re light it.
Got a pot of fresh perk coffie on the stove for some internal warmth and it is just refreshing.
I think I am spoiled. I do not have to get up extra early to drive some place to hunt, just open the door and walk a couple hundred yards to one of the stands. Come in for lunch(which i I heat or cooked on the stove) and head back out when warm.
The camper is not on my place but have hunted this way for 30 + years.
Love it. No place I would rather be than hunt camp.
Sorry no pictures. I have not figured out how to post them sence the old way went kapoot.
I edited this post I for got to ask you all to post pictures of your deer camp if you have one and tell what it is like.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Nov 3, 2020 4:46:02 GMT -5
No picture here either. When we do deer camp it's usually in ine of the HNF campgrounds. Nice to set by the fire and talk about whatever or not talk at all. We haven't done that in a while since our area got hit with EHD maybe next year.
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Post by genesis273 on Nov 3, 2020 5:33:46 GMT -5
I've never been part of a deer camp. Always thought it'd be a great experience.
When I first began hunting, my dad and I hunted a piece of property that connected with 2 others. It was 1 mile by 2 miles. We were friends with the neighboring hunters. We would meet each morning at an old blueberry shed that sat right in the middle before the hunts and let everyone know where we were going. Then we'd reconvene afterwards and talk about what we saw and joke around.
That's about as close to deer camp as I have ever come.
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Post by budd on Nov 3, 2020 8:29:50 GMT -5
Ive been to many fish camps, never been to a hunting camp. My nephew sets up camp every duck and deer season. He totally loves it, does a group duck camp and just himself at deer season. This year he has talked his Dad and I into joining. We moved the campers over to a 200 acre clearcut on Federal land. We got 4 stand put up in funnels leading into the cut. My son Brian has booted me out of my stand in another cut we have hunted the last few years together, this year he is taking his girlfriend and putting her in MY stand  . |
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Post by parrothead on Nov 3, 2020 8:35:05 GMT -5
I belong to hunting club in Alabama for turkey so I am on the e mail list with the whole club. Every week by Wed the head guy is tell people what they will be grilling for the weekend. Nights they sit around fire barrel and drink and watch football on the big screen they have outside. They do that every weekend for 5 months.
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 3, 2020 8:38:04 GMT -5
No camp here at all. I've thought about converting a small shed into a tiny cabin just on the edge of my property to stay at or have for quick warm ups, but have always wanted to spend the money and resources elsewhere for habitat improvements...
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Post by esshup on Nov 3, 2020 9:37:25 GMT -5
A group of 4-5 of us go up to Wisconsin every year. The "camp" is the house at the lake of one of the guys. It's a 10 minute drive to some private land, or we can just walk from the house to public land. It's on a funnel between 2 lakes and a LOT of deer walk right past the house. Last 3-4 years I've gotten my deer as it's walked past the house midday. Usually we leave Thursday, scout Friday, hunt Sat-Mom, come back Tues.
This year I'm going, but not to hunt, and only will drive up, spend the night, visit with relatives, drive back. The guys typically go out to the local bars every night, this year with the virus concern I'm avoiding that.
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Post by arlowe13 on Nov 3, 2020 9:42:55 GMT -5
Ours has certainly evolved since I started hunting with my dad when I was 8 or so...
Started as a converted "mini barn" that my dad converted into a cabin with bunks, a table and potbelly stove...that stove would run us out of that cabin real quick! This was where I hunted my first 8 years of hunting, and it took that long for me to finally kill my first deer...yes, 7 years of blanking, but I kept with it!
Then, we started staying at our campground on the Ohio River in a travel trailer and driving to the farm.
Now, we stay in an old house on the farm we hunt. Farmer's parents used to live in the house and the farmer doesn't want to rent it out to anyone, so he lets us stay in it during deer and turkey seasons and we just pay the utilities during those months...pretty sweet gig.
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Post by bigbuckd on Nov 3, 2020 10:25:25 GMT -5
There is not much better than a good deer camp. I have been fortunate enough to be part of quite a few deer camps. The best ingredients to a good deer camp is great friends, a good fire, and lots of stories (lies) around the fire. I have stayed in tents, campers, cabins, and houses each has its own unique benefits and feel. I always get drawn back to the fire, whether it's a fire ring, pit, place, or wood stove. A nice cold beer, a couple of fingers of whiskey, and a hot meal help the camp come to life after a day in the stand. I wasn't raised in a hunting family and had no hunting traditions but I know I can always go back to those camps and be welcomed.
If you want a hunting camp the best thing you can do is invite someone to hunt with you. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Good luck this year and I hope everyone enjoys sharing a fire with a friend after hunting.
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Post by onebentarrow on Nov 3, 2020 15:05:18 GMT -5
If you want a hunting camp the best thing you can do is invite someone to hunt with you. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Good luck this year and I hope everyone enjoys sharing a fire with a friend after hunting.[/quote]
I hunted with a buddy for years out of an old 31 ft 5th wheel. Good times. We lost that place 20 yrs ago. The place I have now I am the only one allowed to hunt per the land owner. I have known her for 30 years.
I an thinking about asking permission for my old buddy. Namely because we are both OLD and our ability to get around is not what it use to be. When i hunt for a week if something happened there is no one to know i did not come to camp only when i do not show up at home in a week. Granted the comradity would be nice but the safety factor would be extra comforting.
Mu buddy is a good honest hunter and we take care of our permission. He has acquired a place but limited to just a buck a year. He smokes but he will bring his buts in to camp and put them in the trash. He spent all together probably 5 week at the lake house with me fishing and sitting out side watching the lake and bs'n. I enjoy his coumpany.
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Post by esshup on Nov 3, 2020 22:20:11 GMT -5
My first "Deer Camp" was when I was in College. The Rifle Team Coach had a pop-up camper and we took that out into the woods for a few days. Whoah, was that a cold hunt. Temps were cold enough that when we woke up in the morning there were icicles hanging down INSIDE the camper. I remember getting back to the camper one day and there were deer tracks not 10' from the camper on top of our boot tracks going out that morning. Of course there was snow on the ground - this was North Central Wisconsin in the late 1970's.....
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Post by coaldust on Nov 4, 2020 7:47:39 GMT -5
Well I live in my deer camp now. I got divorced & sold my house. Its small but nice. The only bills I have there are direct tv & electric. I can go out the door & walk 200 yards & be sitting in a shooting house overlooking a food plot or jump on the four wheeler & drive a 1/2 mile to my river stands.
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Post by onebentarrow on Nov 5, 2020 17:05:57 GMT -5
Back at deer camp. Arrived too late to justify going to a stand so just enjoying the warm weather with the door open sitting here looking out the screen door with a cup of coffie.
Question? Do you think I could shoot my crossbow thru the screen on the door and hit where I was aiming? I ask this because I am literally In the woods on a narrow cut for a field tile drain and a deer COULD walk in front of the door. Likely? Probably not but you never know. And would that be legal?
Onebentarrow
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Post by onebentarrow on Nov 5, 2020 17:45:40 GMT -5
WOW!!just WOW!!
sitting here in camp and Just heard a big tree come crashing down. No wind or any thing. Just a lot of cracking then a big crash thump. This woods has a lot of dead standing ash trees and they scare the heck out of me for this very reason.
Believe it or not this is the 4th tree I have heard fall naturally with out any wind. I must spend to much time in the woods. Na,no way,I do not think so.
Onebentarrow
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Post by esshup on Nov 5, 2020 19:24:22 GMT -5
Regarding the arrow, a definite maybe. I believe it depends on how well it is tuned. If the arrow kicks sideways like you see in some paper tuning sessions, the screen could alter it's flight. 2nd question is aluminum or fiberglass screen? How much would going through the screen dull the blades?
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Post by thecommissioner on Nov 5, 2020 22:13:56 GMT -5
My deer camp experience for several years consisted of tent camping at Glendale FWA and hunting there. Then I bought my acreage and pitched the tent there. One year, I think 2015, it got very cold the night before opening day. So cold that I shivered uncontrollably in my sleeping bag atop a flimsy air mattress. Enough of that! So I built a small bunkhouse with bunk beds, coal stove, and wired for a generator. Now I am warm, dry, and sleeping in a real bed not to mention walking to my ground blinds. Yes, it's primitive meaning no running water and no flush toilet. But it's much more comfortable than a tent. Oh, I should mention I have a flat screen TV in the bunkhouse and can watch movies at night when the campfire dies down.
The only downside is I do it alone. No hunting buddies around here. My only son that hunts is in the Army and usually has to choose between coming home for hunting or Christmas. Camp would be great if he were here to share the experience and keep me company.
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Post by bartiks on Nov 10, 2020 23:08:22 GMT -5
Brings back a lot of good memories for me. Started hunting with my dad around 8 and he, all his brothers and their sons would go hunting. Sometimes there would be around 20 of us going. Had an absolute blast. Camping in the back of dads pickup with a camper shell at brown county. Had sterno cans in the back to keep us warm, still got freezing cold. Where I learned to drive our 78 international scout. I'm "the last of the mohicans" as it were. None of my uncle's hunt nor do any of my cousins. Just me, I sure to miss those days, something I will always cherish.
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Post by bullseye69 on Nov 11, 2020 9:44:41 GMT -5
Not really deer camp but we sleep in our blinds the night before firearms opens. We don't have to walk out and spook any deer away. We been doing it for aboot 10 years or so.
Kind of like a tradition now.
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Post by esshup on Nov 11, 2020 20:38:36 GMT -5
Not really deer camp but we sleep in our blinds the night before firearms opens. We don't have to walk out and spook any deer away. We been doing it for aboot 10 years or so. Kind of like a tradition now. Will that tradition continue into the future?? |
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Post by bullseye69 on Nov 11, 2020 20:43:48 GMT -5
Not really deer camp but we sleep in our blinds the night before firearms opens. We don't have to walk out and spook any deer away. We been doing it for aboot 10 years or so. Kind of like a tradition now. Will that tradition continue into the future?? Well when I move it to my house it will. Over there more than likely not. |
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