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Deer Camp Report as of Monday noon:

My tree swayed so much I am contemplating a career in bull riding. Cant be much harder, can it?

about 730, a fork horn showed up in my shooting lane. Pretty soon another fork and a couple does showed up and it was fun watching the interaction. The new fork was clearly dominant; they must have had it out earlier to determine who was boss.

Then about 830, a nice 8 pointer stepped into my shooting lane and we had a staring contest at 15 yards. He was as wide as his ears with good mass, but tine length wasnt really great. He looked like another year would make him a Cooper-esque type buck, so I decided to pass. He then spent about 15 minutes in 4 different lanes just trying to change my mind! I told him to stick around me cuz if he waltzes in front of anyone else in my party it would be venny sausage for him. Finally, after a sniffing my scent wick for about 3 minutes, he sauntered away. Passed on another fork later that night.

Sunday morning was calm and I thought they really might move, but they didnt. Saw one forky that I couldnt have shot. Sunday night, I had to dissapoint one of my boys as i can only bring one in the stand at a time. Man, that about broke my heart. But Wyatt was pretty pumped he got to go. We saw yet another fork horn that we passed up (I should say I passed up as if it was up to Wyatt, he would have got drilled!). Wyatt made me feel really good when he said out of the blue, "that was a great hunt Dad!".

This morning I could have spit on a doe, but no bucks. Gonna break Hunter out of school early and go sit again.

Rooster,

I'm going to check that spot out tomorrow.

A pictorial essay of Deer Camp 2013:

the tools:



Deer #1:



Deer #2 (about 15 seconds later):



The coolest '48 pickup to haul any deer:



Saturday night dinner:



And proof that I wore Chickenbuck attire while dropping deer:

Almost forgot the "dink" contest submission picture

Well again a day with no deer. Such is deer camp. It was 10 degrees when we got up and it 10 again on its way to about -5 tonight. It is a balmy 50 in the cook tent as I type and the little diesel stove is working overtime.

That is the latest from camp Isabella. Hope everyone is snug and warm tonight.

Goalie

Nice going and great pictures.

Thanks TJAY. I hope you are just enjoying not being somewhere other than deer-camp.

I'll be at work tomorrow....

The little-guy is jacked-up about turning the deer into "food" though.

Did a recon/hunting run to a new near-home spot in Lakeville. Lots of sign, and looks like a good spot. Going to hunt it again on Wednesday, and maybe in ML with T-Zone.

I believe so, im not sure for certain though. she used my 2010 bow buck for one as well

Jeff, scout it out good.

I'll be there god willing! I hunted at my buddy's camp today. No deer but it's a cool spot.

Tomorrow I'm going to hunt the beaver pond spot. I'm hoping the spot gopher, JOG, myself and my mini-hunter will cool off and fill up with deer.

It's usually a good 2nd weekend spot.

Stay warm TJAY!

Thanks to all you MN hunters for your posts and good luck to ya all. Your posts are getting me revved up for our opener this Friday. My rifles (3 of 'em) are zeroed and so is my scoped revolver. I'll be trying to use the revolver to put a home cast, home loaded bullet through the clockwork of a MI white tail. Got a fewore things to get gathered up and in place, but otherwise I'm pretty much ready for daybreak on Friday. Big grins!

Tom-

The Lakeville spot show some definite promise. Lots of tracks on the trails I walked. Found one older permanent stand and one portable. Both on good crossings. I only scouted part of the property. One side of it borders some land in some kind of trust or something-I can't figure out if it's huntable or not. Lots of wheeler trails through the property, so will be easy to walk and drag deer out of. Going out again tomorrow morning. Hope to stand by the portable I saw for a couple hours and then recon another one of the trail systems.

Howdy do buckaroos.

Well I'll try to catch up here on everybody's hunting status and I'll post up a bit from our first weekend.

I started out Friday at camp with kitchen duty. Jelky's knife chopping onions and peppers, cubing up some meat for a batch of chili.



We got some snow throughout the weekend, big fluffy flakes at times.



And it really cooled off, the kind of weather that makes you put your hood up to keep the ears warm.



A hunter coming in from his morning post.



Some promising buck activity spotted on a walk I took Sunday morning.



The 264 posing on an old cedar stump.



Back at the cabin, we now have this beautiful shanty for wood storage. Also inside the shed is a skid of T&G cedar boards for our sauna project!

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More in a bit.

The woodshed and golden boy rifle are sweet!

Coop,

Great buck !!

CONGRATULATIONS.

Paul.

Great pics, Dave. We need build a wood shed at our camp. Should have done it years ago.

Nice pics Dave. Love the lever-gun.

My step dad gave Nate that rifle. Henry oct barrel 30-30.

He actually fired a shot with it yesterday, clean miss on a running doe he jumped up by his mom's stand.

You know what happens when you miss at camp chickenbuck....


You get shamed.



This was the fancy twirling joust shame method of shame stick ceremony.



He took it in stride.



Shame, shame, shame!

lol.

Missy comes up with the coolest ideas. This is something she had seen at a friend's place so she showed us how to do the bag omelet.



Here we have zip lock freezer bags with omelet contents that we each made for ourselves. Missy had all the meat and veggies pre diced and sliced for camp breakfast. Mine for example, has 3 eggs in it, green peppers, onion, hash browns, mushroom, sausage and ham. Our bags have our names on them.

I'm assisting the cook out on the porch here. The bags are dropped into a turkey fryer pot filled with boiling water.





The girls all teased me for putting way too much stuff in my omelet bag....



Rightly so.

I almost finished that plate though.