We have had some legendary snipe hunts when a newbie shows his face at camp. We actually suckered one guy twice-in the same year. Funny-he never came back with us to hunt again.......
Hands down at the camp I hunted out of was my friend Randy. The first year I took my son "High Brass" to camp Randy got a doe. He skinned the head out and then walked around the cabin with his hand inside the head like a sock puppet. Another time another guy at camp came in the door and told the camp owner "Bob the deer are hanging around in the bottom like they're spying on us". I saw a hand come up and knock on the kitchen window and then a doe's head pop up like it was looking in. The second week of buck season one year Randy found a 10 point someone had shot and wasn't found by that hunter. It was frozen so Randy propped it up against a tree so it could be seen from the road. The next day someone shot almost a whole box of shells at it.
The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass
There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
This thread makes me feel a bit sorry for those on the "Are you a serious hunter" thread. Sad to see people that get their ego wrapped up in being a "serious hunter" more so than the enjoyment of good friends and just being in the woods with your friends.
This is so true.
The deer camp I go to is in some of the best moose hunting there is in the province, no deer. Last year on the last week of deer season I saw one lonely deer all week but spent that same week with a good friend and his curmudgeonly father. I get invited back every year and wouldn't miss it for the world.
This thread makes me feel a bit sorry for those on the "Are you a serious hunter" thread. Sad to see people that get their ego wrapped up in being a "serious hunter" more so than the enjoyment of good friends and just being in the woods with your friends.
This is so true.
The deer camp I go to is in some of the best moose hunting there is in the province, no deer. Last year on the last week of deer season I saw one lonely deer all week but spent that same week with a good friend and his curmudgeonly father. I get invited back every year and wouldn't miss it for the world.
Easy for me to agree and disagree at the same time.
We spend time with family/friends out of doors all year long. We cook out, eat, have a beer or drink, fry fish, bbq and so on all year long. Often there are months in a row where not a weekend goes by without cooking/fishing or something.
So when deer season rolls around, we are with the same group to an extent and we all like to hunt, so then is when we become serious about hunting.
I feel for the folks the most, that only have a short amount of time to be out in the woods with friends.
Killing is not much important to me, at least not large animals, but we do like teh meat for sure, but just killing a handful of deer is not hard for us. But I sure do enjoy the season when we can sit out and watch nature and deer and maybe take something.
Times for all things I believe the good book does say.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
Dad started taking me to 7-11 Deer Camp when I was ten years age. Had several of the fellows that would stay up until 1-2 AM playing cards and drinking whiskey...keeping most folks from sleeping! This was right about the time hunters starting using scoped rifles. After that bunch dozed off...I'd slip out of bed, unscrew the adjustment covers on all the scopes and rotate at least 5-6 revolutions and then slip back into bed! Needless to say...over the next several days there were lots of deer missed and banging away checking the rifles to get zeroed again. I told Dad what I'd done 20 years later! He got a good laugh out of it!!
As a youngster I was entertained in WVa camp by one insisting that scopes should only be zeroed via off hand shooting. When he got a single 30-30 round into the paper plate at 100, he was good to go with all the confidence in the world. Obviously, we were not in big sky country.
I was talking recently with a friend in PENN and he said most of the older camp members have passed on and few of the younger kids want anything to do with hunting, but want to party at the camp on weekends during the summer. His oldest brother who inherited the camp from his father is talking about selling the camp, but only to another family member.
Dad started taking me to 7-11 Deer Camp when I was ten years age. Had several of the fellows that would stay up until 1-2 AM playing cards and drinking whiskey...keeping most folks from sleeping! This was right about the time hunters starting using scoped rifles. After that bunch dozed off...I'd slip out of bed, unscrew the adjustment covers on all the scopes and rotate at least 5-6 revolutions and then slip back into bed! Needless to say...over the next several days there were lots of deer missed and banging away checking the rifles to get zeroed again. I told Dad what I'd done 20 years later! He got a good laugh out of it!!
Damn, I knew I liked you for some reason.... I may know someone that did exactly the same, for exactly the same reason....
I believe thats called great minds....
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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