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Welcome to Winter Camp 2009.
The Rules are Simple:
You take your Rifle & Hunting Pack with ONLY the gear you would normally take Big Game hunting. I took my 58 Hawken "Grizzler"
No Tent
No Sleeping Bag
No Matches
No Food
If you want to eat, you better hunt and shoot good. If you don't want to freeze to death, your going to have to be creative.
We typically pack in a mile or so and break up. We hunt untill Noon, then meet up and make camp. I shot 4 squirrels and my brother got 2. When you are hunting for food for the evening, you concentrate a little harder on your sights.
It will be 12 degrees by morning. To sleep comfortably, you will need to do the following. We will be building a Debris Hut. This is my brothers hut
Dig a trench, 2' wide and as long as your body.
Then Start your framework, you want the inside to be just wide enough that you can fit in it without touching the sides, and just tall enough that if you are laying on your side, you won't touch the ridge pole.
Here is our setup, the openings are facing South East.
After you get all of your framework completed, take it all appart and stack it to the side. Then Line the entire bottom of your trench with rocks.
Then build a fire on top of the rocks and let the rocks warm up and get a good coal bed.
About 2 hours before dark, cover the trench, coals, rocks, everything.
Then you can build your framework back. You want the dirt to cook on the coals and get all of the moisture out.
While you are waiting, now would be a good time to start supper.
Squirrel on a Stick
For the next step, you are going to need a LOT of leaves. This is my buddy Bob. Ol Bob has fashoned himself a Leaf Rake.
Cover your entire framework with at least 2 feet of leaves.
This type of Debris hut can keep you warm in zero degree weather. It got down to 12 degrees that night and we didn't get cold.
WINTER CAMP 2009
Now thats Livin Boys!
Headhunter
The Rules are Simple:
You take your Rifle & Hunting Pack with ONLY the gear you would normally take Big Game hunting. I took my 58 Hawken "Grizzler"
No Tent
No Sleeping Bag
No Matches
No Food
If you want to eat, you better hunt and shoot good. If you don't want to freeze to death, your going to have to be creative.
We typically pack in a mile or so and break up. We hunt untill Noon, then meet up and make camp. I shot 4 squirrels and my brother got 2. When you are hunting for food for the evening, you concentrate a little harder on your sights.
It will be 12 degrees by morning. To sleep comfortably, you will need to do the following. We will be building a Debris Hut. This is my brothers hut
Dig a trench, 2' wide and as long as your body.
Then Start your framework, you want the inside to be just wide enough that you can fit in it without touching the sides, and just tall enough that if you are laying on your side, you won't touch the ridge pole.
Here is our setup, the openings are facing South East.
After you get all of your framework completed, take it all appart and stack it to the side. Then Line the entire bottom of your trench with rocks.
Then build a fire on top of the rocks and let the rocks warm up and get a good coal bed.
About 2 hours before dark, cover the trench, coals, rocks, everything.
Then you can build your framework back. You want the dirt to cook on the coals and get all of the moisture out.
While you are waiting, now would be a good time to start supper.
Squirrel on a Stick
For the next step, you are going to need a LOT of leaves. This is my buddy Bob. Ol Bob has fashoned himself a Leaf Rake.
Cover your entire framework with at least 2 feet of leaves.
This type of Debris hut can keep you warm in zero degree weather. It got down to 12 degrees that night and we didn't get cold.
WINTER CAMP 2009
Now thats Livin Boys!
Headhunter
