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Billy336's photos of his beautiful Florida deer camp got me thinking that it would be good to have a thread to show the camps where our old 99s get to breathe a little fresh air in the fall. So I hope you guys will post a few pictures of the cabins, shacks, and tents that you use in the fall, and hopefully with a couple of Savages in the gun rack.

Here's mine, a little cabin in northern Newaygo County, MI. I've got 40 acres there, and it butts up to several square miles of the Manistee National Forest. We built this in 1996, after camping on the property for a few years before that.



4000 board feet of tongue and groove red pine on the inside walls. Thank God for that nail-gun.


Here's the kitchen. We built the cabinets over one winter, using our full range of profanity. Most of the blood-stains cleaned up OK.


My boys with what we refer to as "The World's Finest Outhouse." We've got inside plumbing now, but it's still nice to have the outhouse as an extra bathroom. Check out my door handle.


My buddy Tom drinking coffee on the porch--or is he hunting? It all depends on whether a deer comes by.


OK, here's the gun rack.


Rod

That's nice -
I can see the hard work y'all put into that cabin - love the out house

congratulations

Very nice. Heck, I could live there full time- no sweat!

Don't find tongue and groove red pine in KS. Don't find many hunting cabins, either. No National Forests to back up to. You do find a few out houses and rock'n chairs.

Love the cabinets. Yea, I could spend a lot of time there but would need a much bigger gun rack.

I'm jealous. Still sleep in my truck most trips.

I guess that's what you would call "Field of Dreams". Very nice place. Does suckin up from a fellow Michigander weasel an invite?



By the way, you forgot to put winders in the blind, oh I meant the outhouse.

In Oregon it would be an RV of some kind on public forest lands. Boy that sure is a nice camp! Nicer than my house!!

Rod, that is a classy deer camp. I really admire the kitchen.

My log cabin is a similar style on the outside. Gable roof with a front porch roof. Building foot print is 16'x20'. Why 16'x20'? That is the foundation dimension of the original log house that my Great-great Grandfather built on the farm before the Civil War. Interior is one open room, cathedral ceiling and a 9'x16' loft.



Heat source



Outdoor plumbing (outhouse and spring water)




Bath house


Savage 99A

Both are amazing

Very nice to all thank you for sharing!!!

Beautiful place Roundoak. That's great to have it in the footprint of your great-great-grandfather's cabin. Thanks for posting these.

Rod

Adirondack deer camp where I cut my deer hunting teeth. This is where I spotted my first 1899's/99's. Many of the old timers carried them and swore by them. Many hunting stories were told here by them as well as many WW I and WW II stories. I have a ton of old family pics, but have never gotten around to scanning them. I have to do it before they are lost to history.

My family (Ross's) where partial to Remington model 8's however. My grandfather and his brothers guided many foreign dignitaries from Poland, Russia, Germany and Austria, in the 20's and 30's, when the Adirondacks where the last place to go in the world to find decent whitetail hunting. That is me just shy of my 50th birthday with my great uncle's 1908 model 8 in 35 Rem. The gun I killed my first buck with, a giant Adirondack 8 pt. The men I was with cut slits through his back legs at the Achilles and slipped his front legs through the slits and tied them off making a "pack" out of the deer. They took turns carry him one at a time on their backs many, many miles the rest off the day while we continued hunting. The gutted deer was weighed when we got out of the woods about a week later at 187 lbs. So I am sure he was over 200 lbs when they were busting him out on their backs in that tough terrain. They don't make many men like that any more myself included. On the tough scale of 1-10, if I am a 5, they were 11's. Those men, and those days are gone forever, but I still have the guns to remember them by.

Savages are a recently acquired taste of the Ross clan, myself, my father and his brothers included. Better late than never.

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These pictures make me wish it was November. Thanks.

Rod

.Hey Sqweeler:
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When I saw that picture I was thinking it looked a lot like my ruger m77 RSI. By the way that picture looks like some good times!

It's a old (real old) custom Mauser 7x57.That's Miami Steve,killed 3 Adirondack 8pt from the same stand,same day many moon's ago in Tupper Lake!!

None of that fancy cabin camping here.

I wouldn't want a roof to cover up a view like that. NICE!

Rod

Here's the addition we put on the old trailer last year. Going up this weekend to wire and insulate it.





View out my front door.



My uncles trailer next door. That's me on the left and my Elementary school buddy, still hunt and fish together.




This is my Dad and me.



This is my uncle and his SIL, my uncle used a 99 in 308. My uncle gave his SIL a 99 in 300, and when he divorced my cousin, he had the nerve to keep the gun, Joe.