Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Annual deer camp photo thread.

Lordy JGR! Look at the antlers on that one!
That is NICE!! Congrats to the shooter for that one.

No one else here has a permanent camp? You boys are missing out on one of the things that makes hunting worthwhile IMO.

Here's our whitetail camp up in the Texas Panhandle. It's a 100 year old cowboy shack....

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Awesome!

Like the skining rack too.

JM

We hang them the easy way, from the rafters useing boat winch trailer cranks, hooked to a gamble, raise or lower, with one hand! Deer Camp! one of the best places in the World, no matter where! John

These are camps that are near my camp. In the 50's and 60's these camps would have a full house of hunters. Now they are hardly used. Each camp is near the NY -VT border with thousands of public hunting acres nearby or just out their back door. There are at least 10 more like this in my area--Web

Those are great looking places. The woods around them are beautiful as well.

John All those camps including mine almost lie within this single Photo-- Standing in NY looking in Vermont.

Beautiful.

I don't understand why those camps would be empty. I would spend as much time as I possibly could in any of those. Beautiful!

gmiller--It's kind of a long story but -- When those camp were built--- Late 1930's to middle 1950's that was about the only area around with a deer population. Ten miles to the east into NY you hardly saw a deer right up until about 1970. The majority of the deer have followed the farmers corn fields and alfalfa. The smaller woods 5- 300 acre woods surrounded by farms are a much easier and more productive way to hunt. Around my camp a good day would to see 5 deer. In the farmland If you don't see 5 deer by 8:00am something is wrong. People now days want fast results. We at my camp still have a crew of 5 or 6 that will spend a week or two and then every weekend until the end of the season. I myself for the last 15 years spend a month at a time. Getting young blood into these camps for any length of time is very hard. Camps in my area are a dying breed. It's a shame . Thanks Web

These camps are beautiful. They make me want to come hunt in NY. Thanks for posting these.

wldthg, those camps are absolutely awesome!


maddog

This is a real nostalgia trip for me. I grew up in New England and those camps represent the world and time in which I grew up. It does make you want to just pack the truck and go hunting.

It sure does.

Pre-camp photo. I'll post more next week when I get back.

Where ya goin'?

High Falls

Beautiful.
Good luck.

you got yer butt out tool?