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

Cow Camp(you can hunt while you 'work'), we'll be out there for awhile right around Halloween. I got the scoop on a big-ass mule deer however, a bowhunter's been after him lately but... you never know!


View to the east in the afternoon, a guy can walk/ride that direction for over 12 miles and never leave the place.



Does in the backyard are a common occurance.
The outhouse, no indoor plumbing, got fancy with electricity about 5 years ago.

Great place. You are fortunate.

Some of you guys would be in a bind if you needed to find a tree in a hurry.....

Nice looks like a Great camp , when was it built? got any pics of the inside?
John

We are getting close to gun season...

Been hunting with my boys since 1984...and we built this little cabin in 1992 and this pic was taken that year also of the back of the cabin...number 1 and number 3 boys looking on. It's small but solid, and has a loft. The little buck hanging was easy...at first light I heard him casually walking through the leaves a hundred yards away in a dead-still woods. He stopped broadside at twenty yards to take a look at me. I was in a new tree stand we had just built and needed to christen it properly.

This is number 1 and number 2 boy in the "kitchen."

Number 2 boy in the loft...

Number 2 boy's condo in the sky...

These two nice bucks were nearly identical...and were taken an hour apart and about 200 yards apart in the woods. The buck in front was a 200 pounder and was taken by my number two boy from his condo.

And...campfires...this campfire was behind the cabin, as always, and this pic was snapped last year. Every word ever spoken at this spot over the years has been the truth, and every word came from a sober man.

Great camps, keep 'em coming.

JM

Wow great pictures posted over the weekend!! awesome stuff?

Sam,

I'm expecting Clint Eastwood to come out of that crapper!

Nice pics man...

Before and after up in Northern Minnesota last year.

There is nothing like freshly removed backstraps on the grill while enjoying a good beer and sauteing up mushrooms and onions in butter.....

Nice!

And, from 2007:





I may be out of "buck luck" this year, but we have not been skunked since the days of public land the hunting muzzle-loader season back in the 90's.

Are those Iron Range bucks? Look like it in the rack and body.

What is the piece you're carrying on the second set of pics?

They are both from the north shore of Whitefish Lake, right next to Camp Foley. The bodies grow bigger than the antlers around those parts.

The 2007 deer was about 7 years old from the teeth and really big-bodied. He had a pretty little rack in terms of mass/width relative to his size. The one last year actually has a decent rack, but it would have been a monster in southern MN, as he was >210 pounds dressed. (For perspective, I am 6-1, 185 pounds)

The handgun is a 44Mag SuperBlackhawk that I had drilled and tapped to mount a 2x Leupold scope on.

Man, this thread has me stoked to go up for the season, and I have to work the opener, so I have to wait even longer.

Those body/racks reminded me of the deer we get on the iron range. Huge bodies and "normal" racks, usually smaller than the body would suggest. I did get one big sucker up there. A big 8 that scores in the high 130's and weighed 227# dressed. The rest are smallish racks with body's from 160-190. In WI or in southern MN, they'd typically have better head gear.

I like that .44.

I am pretty happy with the 44 myself.

In fact, I am so pleased with it that I am almost ready to buy one of the Ruger 77/44 rifles that they have out in stainless/synthetic for when my son gets old enough to hunt. I imagine that a sub-6 pound bolt-action 44 magnum rifle would have great terminal performance at the ranges we usually hunt, while providing a very mild-recoil.

Nice. I wish our deer had bigger bodies like yours.

Less on the wall and more in the freezer isn't a bad thing IMO....

I too like the 77/44. I had one, but it patterned instead of grouped. I bought it used. I haven't seen one for a price I'm willing to pay since. They are a great MN woods rifle.

Not mine, but couldn't pass up taking this picture:



Thats some sturdy [bleep] there.....