How many combine camping with hunting?

[KyFlintlock]

Just curious to see how many folks combine camping with hunting this fall...??

 

[Bob J]

My brothers and I hunt-camp in a 12' x 16' shed we affectionately call our "cabin" :: Also have a "pop-up" camper.

 

[Liver eatin’ Johnson]

I'm lucky to have a friends home right in the middle of the area so we "camp" at his house. :winking:

 

[Stumpkiller]

I have in the past, including boating to a remote site, but not this year.

That's hunting at it's best.

 

[fishman]

Labor day weekend will start my camping/hunting with a north georgia squirrel hunt. probably go back the end of october for a blackpowder hunt.

 

[roundball]

Just curious to see how many folks combine camping with hunting this fall...??

Unfortunately, no...I did camp/deer hunt for a week years ago...one of the most memorable weeks I've spent hunting.
I had a big wall tent and a couple buddies had a pickup camper...outstanding October weather in North Carolina...bacon/eggs/bread/OJ/coffee/T-bones/potatoes/beans...I didn't get a buck but filled a couple doe tags...a great memory!

 

[cayugad]

I used to camp/hunt when I was younger a lot. Now I own a place in the middle of the national forest. So I have all the comforts of home, plus can walk out my door, off my land and enter the forest. Kind of the best of both worlds.

 

[Halftail]

Can't hunt from Home here anymore.Too many Yahoos!They'll do anything to drive the deer out of your area,including hunting before the season.
I now head into the "woods" to my 24 X 12 hunting camp on the banks of the mighty Clyde River....well....it a tributary of the Clyde and it's not that mighty ::
Only power there is Lanterns and No phones,no motor cars not a single luxery......
I spend the whole deer season there,sometimes heading home once every 10 or so days for a visit. eace:

 

[Hoyt]

I set up a 20' x 10' tent the day before deer season (Sept.) and that's home till the last day of season (Jan.).

 

[sneakon]

We camp. Do a family pre-elkcamp in the summer to clear trail, chop wood and just enjoy. Then in September, we horse pack in a wall tent, food and accoutrements for 5 or 6 of us. The wall tent is the cook tent and hang out place. We all backpack in our individual tents and stuff for sleeping. Keep one horse in camp to pack out meat. Hunt individually and re-group in the evening to tell stories while making dinner and preparing for the next day.

 

[MikeChapin]

I used to take a week for elk hunting. I would set up my lodge in a park in the Big Horns and use it for a base camp. It sometimes got a little cold but most of the time it was rather pleasant. Did pack along a pair of snowshoes in case I might have to walk out.

Don't know what I will do this year. I will be just have my one year residency in. Still have to find a set of poles.

 

Squirrel camp, February 2005. No Deer (foreground) and Plumebleu. That was my birthday present from my wife--sleeping in the snow, eating parched corn and jerky, and listening to those two yay-hoos snoring.

Loved every minute of it.

 

[Pork Chop]

Hoyt,

Since you will be camping out in the great outdoors, if I head down, I may need to find your coordinates so that my buddy and I can drop by and chew the fat! I have never actually met anyone on the forum - would be neat to do so. (If you are not interested in some goofy interloper horning in on your action, I understand that too - just let me know - I won't be offended)

 

[graybeard]

My partner and I own some hunting land in northern lower Michigan. We have some old camping trailers there. No electricity. Our heaters are add-ons, so we don't dare sleep with them on. Gets a bit chilly at night in that part of the country. We spend a lot of September and October there grouse hunting and a big chunk of November deer hunting. After that we just go up there to get away from things. Camping in Michigan in January and February is great. Brisk, but great. when my wife and her friends talk about the dumb things their husbands do, my wife wins every time. graybeard :applause:

 

[No Deer]

Camping in Michigan in January and February is great. Brisk, but great. when my wife and her friends talk about the dumb things their husbands do, my wife wins every time. graybeard

My wife could top your's in this contest, You use camping trailers, See StumblnBufflers post above :crackup: :crackup:

 

[merdean]

I camp out when hunting. At least, I have in the past. I have a 10X12 tent I set up. Then I put in the air mattress to please the wife (I prefer it too) Got to make room for the dogs so scoot around a bit. When everyone is settled, I may have room for a powder horn. But got to have the heater so watch where you put that horn! Rifle goes next to the mattress so wife won't have to roll over on it. Where did you put the ice chest? Outside? You mean I have to go out in the cold for a Coke? Where is the bathroom? What???? Well, I am not a bear!!!! You better get something fixed up in a hurry, I gotta go!! I don't care if it is 10 miles from here, I will not use a pine cone! Just shut up and drive!

 

[OTHERN]

When I hunt in Colo, I use my 12'X 12' Pyrmid tent, with stove, cot and enough comforts of home to keep me happy. When I go to Wyo I use my brothers 12'X 14' wall tent and it's warmer than the house even in Nov when it,s 25 below.

Othern

 

[Gametracker]

I do a solitary voyage up a creek each year for a weekend of isolation and hunt-camping in the Shawnee National Forest. I pick a flat spot between the creek and a steep bank, and build a fire between the bank and a driftwood shelter. Last year, I sat up camp in the afternoon, went bow-hunting, and came back to find a large flock of turkeys roosted over my camp area. I went to sleep and "slept in" long enough the next morning to let the turkeys fly down and wander off undisturbed. I had a turkey archery tag, but the flat terrain made it too difficult to move in on them. I also like to camp here during Illinois' 2nd shotgun season because 1.) we have the option to use muzzleloaders, and 2.) all the crazy out-of-towners and city slickers that stumble around in the woods during 1st shotgun season are long gone.

 

I usually camp when deer hunting, specially like to hunt in the cold sos I can hang the deer from a tree. Here in West texas its actually Too warm a lot of the first part of the season (archery season especially) to do anything but field dress a deer and run to the house to process it and get it in the deep freeze.

Been camping in a nylon tent most of my life, sometime like to use a Military poncho and liner with a tarp under my sleeping bag, if I feel like getting a little more intimate with nature, and also tired of all the high teck pole and such of a mountin tent.

This year however, Gotten older, soul is a changing, Having dreams of a Reese or Nomadics Sioux/cheyenne Tipi for hunting camp maybe in december. Figgure to sit in a Tipi, and pretend im some kind of Chief. A legend in my own mind. Think also if I upgrade my camp living conditions I might get the Wife and Daughter to try camping. Wife used to camp with me till we had kids, and Cant get her to budge out into the bush anymore. Think the Tipi and all its room and comforts might help..except now I hear this talk of camping not having showers and restrooms......Whats a chief to do, but go it alone.

Nothin tastes better than backstraps and garlic roasted on a stick or grill over smokey mesquite coals - on a cold night around a campfire. Think looking up at the sky thru the poles of a tipi would really make it better, than sleeping like a hampster in a yellow tent.

People who live up north have a good thing going seasonal environment wise for deer season. Heck, in this texas sahara youve still got deer ticks, fleas, chiggers, and skeeters to contend with here until you get some good frosts happening. Flies will eat your deer before you do if you dont move fast.

 

Squirrel camp, February 2005.

Youve got every thing right here. This is camping at its finest. :front: