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Sorry to hear of the tough news Stan. Kinser, I sent you a PM. I like 700 Classics.
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Well did you buy it or not WB!!? That's what we all want to know?
I'm getting closer and closer to my "tent camp" deer camp. Hunting up near the iron range is getting busier now with two budding deer hunters. We have been driving 45 minutes or so from my mom's house to the area we hunt. It's fine but not the real camp experience I'm looking to give the kids...or myself for that matter.
Grandpa can also come up and cook us a breakfast while we're in the woods.
I'm 100% sure the tent we'll be using will be a Davis out of CO. I've even talked on the phone with the owner when I called with a few questions.... Having the owner himself answering my questions made the decision easy, on where I'm going to get it from!
I have a few spots I could set it up and rock on. The size is and actual placement area is what I'm stuck on. I'm thinking 14x17'ish with an awning (porch) for now with an outdoor cooking area? I'd like to avoid cooking in the sleep tent if possible. A "cook tent" can be added in the future if need be.
For those of you guys that have done this, what do you prefer? Cooking in the tent or separate?
How about set up. Out in the open or in the woods? I can do either. I'm not near any water to speak of but can be if that's really that much better?
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I never cook in the canvas wall sleeping tent due to smells and moisture. A separate smaller cook tent or even an overhead tarp with walls to break wind is preferable to cooking in the sleep tent. Get an inexpensive portable shelter for cooking or even something like a big hub style ice fishing shelter. One of the military surplus center pole tents has worked for cooking also but the walls are pretty short compared to a real Davis wall tent. Good choice on Davis. Talk to Four Dog Stoves about heating and cooking stoves. They are in St. Francis, MN.
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Inside is the only way. I would put up an unheated one for sleeping so I could have a cook/gathering tent.
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This make deer camp very enjoyable.
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I have mores picture if you want to see more..
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Tjay, I'd like to see some more. I have a 12' x 17. It sleeps 3 comfortably - 4 a little less so. We do not cook in our tent. We bought a cheap canvas tent off craigslist for those duties. We have a cylinder stove that has to be stoked at least once a night around 2am to keep us comfortable. We have just started using an indoor/outdoor carpet remnant for the floor and it's nice on cold mornings. We use it for opening weekend of trout season, elk hunting in CO, and occasionally antelope in WY. Never used it for deer camp though. We usually set up in the open - no widow makers that way - but near woods for a wind break. Be advised, these things are heavy and you'll have a time of it raising it with a man and two kids.
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CF This is deer camp. First tent is cook/gathering tent and the next two are sleeping tents, first two are mine third is one I sold to a friend. Tent #2 is 12x14 and sleeps 4 comfortably and 5 if need be. I have put this camp by myself in approx. 3 hrs. Here is the rest of the inside of the cook tent. Diesel heater for tent and propane water heater.
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I have mores picture if you want to see more.. Of course we want to see more. Your camp is 90% of the reason I'm doing this.
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there's a guy in the classifieds here selling a wall tent in the twin cities.
Nevermind, i see it sold
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tzone Here is the sleeping tent with 5 cots.
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tzone Lots of room for stuff under the cots, those two green things,kinds storage dressers, are not used anymore. They take up more room than we like and just another thing to haul around. We are always adjusting and improving the camp. These
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For the two person or three this works. The other side.
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These last two pictures are from the 12x14 tent. A little bigger tent say 14x16 would even be better.
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Thanks! I think 14x16 or 14x17 is the route I'm going to go. I was thinking 12x but there will be 3 people a lot of times.
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Here is another way we set it up for two, different table.
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On a lighter note. This is a gentle reminder/joke for one of the guys who had the misfortune to shoot one in the knees and had to chase it around the woods, about 3/4 mile. Top arrow say "shoot here." Bottom arrow says "not here"
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Camp is where you make it.
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