Deer camp stories and pics.

[Armored farmer]

We have a thread or two for posting pics of your harvested game.
How about a place for pics and stories from deer camp?
Let's see your campsites, tents, campfires, campstoves, food, drink, gear, buddies, beverages..blinds ......anything deer camp!

These pics are from my hunting blind.
I missed a nice 8pt out my window this morning. I apparently misjudged the distance for my xbow and the bolt fell short.
A quick trip home for a few practice shots proved it must have been me, not the xbow. I brought my trusty rangefinder along this time.
I would like to get a buck for the freezer this week. Gun season opens Friday and temps are supposed to be in the teens.


I have pot of stew on the burner and getting ready for some evening rut action.

 

[Patocazador]

Where's the picture of you sleeping on the couch?

 

[Armored farmer]

Lol
I didn't sleep, but I was stretched out pretty comfy when the turkeys came blowing past.
I picked out the third Tom in the group and knocked him into a sideways somersault. He recovered and walked away.. the rest flew.
I found him hunkered down under a white oak log. I was so close that all I could see in the scope was feathers. I pulled the trigger and momentarily pinned him to the log. He flopped until he broke my broadhead off, then disappeared over the next ridge with my xbow bolt bolt sticking up out of the center of his back.
I guess my bad luck streak continues....?

 

[Patocazador]

This isn't a deer camp, it's a couple of duck camps my brother and I used during a canoe duck hunt in 2008. It was in the Boundary Canoe Waters Wilderness in northern Minnesota.


All of our camping, hunting, fishing gear plus my youngest brother.




Rice Lake Island in background where we pitched our tent.


We were cramped and messy. Just us and a canoe-full of moose hunters on the other side of the lake.


A break in a nicer "camp" between hunts.

 

[Highland Lofts]

A friend and his better half from here in Washington state will be flying back to Upstate New York tomorrow for Saturday's deer opener. I found a primitive camp for them to stay in. A one room insulted cabin
.my brother has been getting it set up for them. Propane heaters Propane lanterns and a electric generator. They will be staying there for two weeks. I'll probably spend a couple of nights there with them.
I'll get more pictures Wednesday.

 

[Armored farmer]

This isn't deer camp, it's a couple of duck camps my brother and I used during a canoe duck hunt in 2008. It was in the Boundary Canoe Waters Wilderness in northern Minnesota.

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All of our camping, hunting fishing gear plus my youngest brother.

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Rice Lake Island in background where we pitched our tent.

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We were cramped and messy. Just us an a canoe-full of moose hunters on the other side of the lake.

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A break in a nicer "camp" between hunts.

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Hey!
I was at Rice Lake last summer.
We took a 5day getaway to the Gordon Wisconsin area. We had a cabin on Spider lake.

If you like to watch YouTube , check out "Lost Lakes " the guy is a canoer extraordinaire. Basically all Canadian but does some boundary water and great lakes.
Camper/explorer/ naturalist/ fisherman/conservationist/outdoorsman. One of my favorite channels.

 

[FL-NC]

We have a thread or two for posting pics of your harvested game.
How about a place for pics and stories from deer camp?
Let's see your campsites, tents, campfires, campstoves, food, drink, gear, buddies, beverages..blinds ......anything deer camp!

These pics are from my hunting blind.
I missed a nice 8pt out my window this morning. I apparently misjudged the distance for my xbow and the bolt fell short.
A quick trip home for a few practice shots proved it must have been me, not the xbow. I brought my trusty rangefinder along this time.
I would like to get a buck for the freezer this week. Gun season opens Friday and temps are supposed to be in the teens.
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I have pot of stew on the burner and getting ready for some evening rut action.

Your blind is nicer than most camps I have stayed in.

 

[Patocazador]

Your blind is nicer than most camps I have stayed in.

With whole/shelled corn going for $400+ per ton, farmers can afford a lot.

 

[Armored farmer]

I will bring it to your house for $400/ton

 

[BreechFace]

How many would fess up to the above images being pictures of our homes if we hadn't married...

 

[BreechFace]

With whole/shelled corn going for $400+ per ton, farmers can afford a lot.

You should take up farming...

 

[Patocazador]

You should take up farming...

Only if I want to lose my butt through floods, drought, high fertilizer prices, and ridiculous equipment costs.

I have a ranch and bought a new tractor a few months ago. It cost over twice as much as my wife's new car.

 

[Patocazador]

I will bring it to your house for $400/ton

I went to the local feed/seed store. The price for 50# of shelled corn was on the board behind the counter. It read $11.50. I said, "Give me 4 bags." He said, "That will be $48.00." I said, Your price list says $11.50/bag so it should be $46.00."
He reached behind him with an eraser and erased $11.50 and put up $12.00. He said a new shipment just came in and now it's $12.00. I told him to keep his #$@%!&! corn. I will buy it at WalMart!

This happened one week ago.

 

[Armored farmer]

I just did the math. We're hopeful that we will get $7/bushel which is exactly $250/ton.

We have a farmer in our county that picks his corn in the ear with an old-school picker then bags it as "squirrel corn" and " deer corn". He makes bank selling it to Rural King and Tractor Supply.

I'll admit my blind is pretty nice. It was three years in the making. Most of the framework and floor sills were from our old above ground pool deck that I tore down. The windows are out of my sisters house that was torn down 10 years ago. the table was salvaged from an old camper. The gas burner is off of an old grill that we pitched. The rafters from some timber I had sawed. The pull out loveseat from a Facebook marketplace ad. Solar panel from Northern Hyd.
So, it's nice...but it's ho-made. I hired our Amish neighbors put the tin on because....they're in the business.

 

[Patocazador]

We have a farmer in our county that picks his corn in the ear with an old-school picker then bags it as "squirrel corn" and " deer corn". He makes bank selling it to Rural King and Tractor Supply.

I was in Rural King yesterday and saw those ears. Some of the kernels had fallen off the cobs. It was marketed as squirrel and bird feed.
Also, their "deer" corn was a little less than $10 / 50 # bag. It usually has a lot of trash in it that can clog a feeder but I bought some to try it out.

 

[jak67429]

 

[JFrank]

I’m reduced to an opportunity hunter these days

 

[jmr40]

From a hunt in the Cohutta Wilderness in N GA. 1980

It was my brother, and two other guys who were brothers. I was 22 and just out of college, my brother 18 and had just started college. The other 2 guys were 5-6 years older, but we had worked together.

Our pop-up camper pulled by a 1973 Jeep



Me in the foreground, my brother behind me.



Tree rubs



Not ours, but some guys were living in style with a bus converted to a camper.



My brother and one of the other brothers had to leave early to work. Ricky and I got tired of the long walk every day and spent a couple of nights here.



Someone was resting while everyone else was setting up camp.

 

[jmr40]

More.

This truck isn't just junk on the side of the road. Someone drove this old Jeep truck and pulled a travel trailer behind it. You can see the trailer hitched to the truck if you look closely.



None of my party killed anything on this trip, but some photos of others who were camped in the same campground.



Ricky did kill this one the next year



And I got this hunting the same spot several years later

 

[jmr40]

Colorado 2010. I had just retired, my brother-in-law was still teaching and was his schools cross country coach. We tagged along with another group. They left a few days early, Scott and I left on Friday afternoon after he got off work and drove 30 hours straight. We took turns driving my Tacoma and sleeping when not driving. We got into camp with just enough time to set up our smaller tent before dark on Saturday.



Scot did manage to kill a small buck.



That's me getting ready to take a hot shower. The guys I went with had a pretty good set up. The blue barrel is full of creek water with a propane water heater as the water comes out of the tank.



Beautiful country. About 1/2 way between Craig and the Wyoming border.



This was a long drive for a short hunt. Game was in short supply. The buck my BIL killed was the only legal animal any of the 6 of us saw. We broke camp early and drove back to GA the same way we went out. We got back home about sunup on the next Friday. My BIL went to work and coached his cross-country team to a region championship after school that day.

 

[jmr40]

Colorado 2018.

My wife and I are retired teachers. We've had the opportunity to travel, but mostly in summers. I also coached football, so I worked 80-hour weeks from August to early November. A western hunt was never a reality until I retired. We have done several camping trips to Colorado and other western states and an elk has always been a bucket list thing for me.

I'm not getting any younger, and the mountains aren't getting any flatter so in 2018 when I was 60, I told my wife I was going if I had to go alone. She doesn't hunt, but won't pass up a road trip, especially to Colorado. We left a week before the season, took our time and combined a hunt trip with a vacation. I had 3 days to scout before the season started.

I had planned to camp, but we ran across a good deal on this cabin. My wife was thrilled, she wasn't looking forward to camping in single digit temperatures.



I saw lots of signs but didn't kill anything, I didn't have a clue what I was doing. There were 9 cabins in the area and 3 elk were brought out that week, so it was a good area to hunt. I hunted in the wrong spot the first 3 days and didn't see a thing. Moved over one drainage on the 4th day and elk sign was everywhere. Hunted there for the rest of the week, but by then the herd had moved out and into a unit where I couldn't hunt. Had I hunted this spot the 1st three days I'd have had a realistic opportunity.



Still had a great time. Some more photos of that hunt.



Last photo below is my wife. For some reason I forgot to post it with the others and can't do it now. She was a real trooper. Never complained about the cold and would have helped pack out if I'd been successful.

 

[Armored farmer]

Thanks for posting @jmr40 .
Great pics!

 

[Scout21]

These pics are from my hunting blind

I've seen you post pics of your hunting blind a couple times now and I'm really interested in its design. You should consider giving us a tour. It looks a whole lot warmer than the pop-up blinds I've hunted out of.

 

[Armored farmer]

I've seen you post pics of your hunting blind a couple times now and I'm really interested in its design. You should consider giving us a tour. It looks a whole lot warmer than the pop-up blinds I've hunted out of.

I can take pics of a walk-around tomorrow.
My biggest mistake was using salvaged windows instead of real sliding blind windows. My windows are too big and too noisy. I have to leave them open and it gets cold in there.

 

[Grayrock]

The camphouse we use for annual dove and deer. Central Texas. Only cold running water and an outhouse.