Post em if you've got em.

Here's a few camps and cabins I've used at different times.


Field hut on the bush edge just below the top of the range. First hut built in the Tararua ranges in the thirties, two story place with bunks and fire etc downstairs and more bunks upstairs.
About 3 hours walk, all up hill and steep, but during the roar and in the late spring there can be some good hunting on the open tops above the hut. Not much decent firewood round there and it gets cold if the snow blows though.



Cone hut, a Totara slab hut built in the fifties. Some decent hunting round here, on the flats at the change of light if the wind's right or up the sides on either side of the valley, and a five minute walk to the river for fishing (a good pool right where the track comes down and crosses the river usually holds two or three fish) About 2.5 - 3 hours walk over the ridge or a five to seven hour walk up the valley. The ridge walk is good during the roar, get up on top before daylight and you can normally get one or two stags roaring back at you.



Cone hut fireplace.



The sleeping platform at Cone hut, just rough adzed totara slabs nailed down. Not the most comfortable.



Inside Tutuwai hut. Fireplace on right, benches and table on left, some of the sleeping platforms in the background. One of my favourite spots, reasonable hunting (Reds on the river flats in the morning if you're lucky or easy bush terraces back from the river), a good river and a comfortable hut about four to six hours into the bush.



Our bunks at Tutuwai.



Smiths creek shelter, real basic shelter. No door and an opening big enough to drive a pickup in. Nothing in the windows and no fireplace.

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Me inside Smiths creek. I normally wouldn't stay there but there's good hunting close, mainly Red deer and I have heard of Sika being shot there too, and some fishing in the river, mainly brown trout, about a two hour hike from the road.

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A distance shot of Oamaru hut taken from down by the river. Good Sika country round there, lots of sign just up behind the hut on the left on an open clearing in the Manuka scrub. One of our group shot an eight point stag the week we were there despite the weather packing up and sending us rain then snow then more rain and more snow.

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I'm afraid that's all I can dredge up right now due to a PC deciding to die on us around new years.

Three different hunting camps I've shared in Texas (one far east, one in the hill country and one north)







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could be this...




or this with a cot behind the truck using the bumper as a nightstand...



Or the hilton...




This was my great grandpappy's at the turn of the century in Az...


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My room at our camp in Mississipi



Skinning shed Ryan & I built



Ashly & Richard in the kitchen.

A couple NM and CO. I have a bunch more, but not here on this computer.

Here's few elk hunting camps in Colorado.

This is my first elk camp from 1978.


I decided I would sleep better if I setup a better camp.


That worked pretty good but a wall tent works even better.




Then we bought a cabin.





Sold the cabin so we went back to setting up the wall tent.
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It seems like we have to go further in now to get to the elk and last year we rented horses. This photo is similar to what our elk hunting camp last year looked like.
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KC

Is that a guide in the pic?

Here are few camps in Alaska.

Kahiltna Glacier 1994. Climbing Denali.




Float hunt for moose on the King Salmon River 2004.


Little Grant Lake, 2004.


Kugururok River Caribou Hunt, 2007


Anisak River Caribou Hunt, 2009.



KC

John:

That photo was taken on a recreational backpack trip on the Olympic Penninsula, circa 1994. I included it just to give an idea of what my elk camp last Fall was like.

KC

Whitetail and Turkey camp.

Maarty,

I think New Zealand must one of the bezst hunting destinations in the world given the type of game available and the access hunters have to it..

With regards the Huts, unlike the ones shown by our American friends, would I be correct in thinking that many of the Huts are on publically huntable land and are essentially open to all on a first come first served basis?

I was reading somewhere that the NFS were demolising a lot of "unofficial" huts and bivvies and it was causing a huge uproar by hunters and trampers...Some of the huts had been operation for years and were well a known and much loved part of hunting lore..

Love to see more if you have any further pictures..

Regards,

Peter

Couple more camp life pics.

An assortment of "camps" mostly on different deer leases I been on over the years.

Due to the short term nature of leases over here, plus the planning laws, people tend not to build cabins that much instead using things like static trailers/caravans or even coverted shipping containers..

Thats a motely collection of hounds in your grandpa's camp...

Love seeing how the old timers do it...

Here are some pictures of our back country elk camps






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This is a West Texas hunt camp that belonged to a friend of mine. I hunted hogs there with him.



There were several groups that shared this lease and each group had its' own camp. One group's "camp" was the old school bus that you can see in the background. There were a couple of wooden shacks that other groups had built. My friend didn't stay on this lease very long.

Eventually he bought 100 acres in West Texas brush country and has done a lot of work to improve it with water, stands and feeders.

KC

You're right they are all public huts, the price to stay ranges from $5NZ per night to $15 for ones like Oamaru where pretty much everything is provided including cut firewood and coal. Tutuwai is $10 per night and has gas for cooking and two two burner stoves bolted to the benches.
The Department of conservation runs most of the public lands and is supposed to maintain the huts but there's more money spent on the great walk huts and tourist car parks than on all the rest of the huts etc in the country and they seem to forget that the land belongs to the people of New Zealand and they only manage it for us.
A lot of iconic hunting camps that were set up on public land for years have been removed in recent years. The goal up until the 80's was to have a hut or bivvy 2 hours apart on every track in every park, that was so Government hunters could cover the land easily and safely, and so the public could access the back country safely. In the last 30 years a lot of huts have either been destroyed, allowed to fall apart or downgraded to shelters (like smith creek)
I'll try to find some pictures of an old log hut that had stood for fifty odd years till the DoC decided not to do anything about the fact the creek was cutting closer and closer to the hut, last year it got destroyed when a flood undercut the bank completely. All it would have taken was a weeks work by a group, and plenty of hunting groups offered, to move the hut further back to a safe point. Hunting heritage gone, history that helped shape more than a few peoples lives allowed to be wiped out because DoC likes the tree huggers and greenies more than anyone else. The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society (twig and tweet to hunters) won't be happy till NZ is returned to having no land mammals in the wild at all.
As you may have guessed the agencies involved in controlling hunting lands are no more popular here than anywhere else.
I guess we can't really complain though, we can still hunt for free any time by just going and asking for a permit (or if the local officers know you, ringing them up)
I'm lucky, where I live there's huntable populations of Red deer, Sika, Sambar, Fallow, Goats and Pigs all within a couple of hours drive, the closest hunting is about 20 minutes drive away, and reasonable fishing within spitting distance of my door.

Sheep camp for a 10 day hunt in the Brooks Range. I'm kicking back against my "Barney's" recliner...

Not much to look at but we killed 3 elk and a deer from this camp.



A cold one.



This was about the last we saw of the sun on this hunt. The storms kept coming and I was relieved to get this old rig down off the mountain.

Me and 2 buddys chasing mallards





Ritz Carlton in Duck & Rice capital of the world (Stuttgart, AR)

Deer hunting 2009:





I mean Dink hunting :



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Here is our northern Mn. tent camp.


And here is the inside of the cook tent.
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That's cool. Neat as a pin.

JM

Holly chit thats a tad too neat!

Last fall's moose camp on the Noatak River:



Caribou camp in the Kenai Mountains @ 20005



Moose camp on the Kenai Peninsula, 2009

Texas ain't got chit on a Montana hill camp.

One man's rations for 2-3 weeks(it gets dark early).



Seriously though excellent pics, very interesting.

Sam,

You've good taste my man. Nothing like a good ol' bottle of Jack.

Here is my family's duck camp in Louisiana

Remember the famous words of Robin Williams,

"If alcohol is a crutch, then Jack Daniels is the wheelchair".

tedthorn:

I was thinking the same thing. I wonder what it looks like after they've been there for a few days????? I've been acused of being a neat freak, but that's ridiculous. Did you count the chairs. There's no way that many people can keep things that neat for very long. There's got to be at least a couple of Oscars in the group. They probably cleaned it up for the photo and that's OK.

It does look like a good camp though. They must have other tents for sleeping.

KC

Yup, two other tents we sleep in. It is not that neet on the weekends, Wife and I pick up after they go back to work. We live in that for most of the month of Nov. so we do try to keep up. Most we have in camp is 7 adults and one 3 year old this last season.

We even had a birthday party..
And some snow..

Here's a couple of camp (two different years), followed by the views from camp, and two more about a mile from camp:

Nice pics Smoke, looks like a beautiful place to hunt.

It is!!!

Some excellent pics here.
I just love seeing those ride in camps, horse pack trips always interest me.

camp meat.

Great thread guys!

Love lookin at the great hunting camp pics. Some of the best memories you'll ever have. Thanks for sharing.

Mouse

High country, Wyoming with horses.




High country, Washington, without horses.

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The preferred method when possible..Its a tent more often than not tho.

any more? This is an enjoyable thread.

I can't figure out how to put on a jpg. pic.

That flag flew over the United States Capitol the day the WWII Memorial was dedicated.

Man,,,,,I gotta go hunting with some of you guys....

Does fly fishin camp count?

Some of you have seen these before. The last year dad was with us at the age of 90 in 2009.

Our pantry/commissary


The cook out in the rain watching the fire go down again. That is his/our kitchen area in the back.


Dad making sure we *got it right*

La Pampa province 1971.
Me (in clear shirt), mi friend Rosendo, the tent, our water supply, the one and only gun (Mauser 1891 carbine) and a boar sow, soon to be grilled for our lunch.

This thread is AWESOME

Squirrel & duck hunting & fishing camp in Louisiana in 1957, I was 21 at the time, & that's my Ford convertable!


Inside wall decorations;

Two serious squirrel hunters:


A little crap shooting after dark:

1904 deer camp unknown location:


1929 "camp":


Another unusual "camp":


Old deer camps:






Deadwood, SD, 1887:
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Deer camp 2009:



Deer camp 2010:



Antelope camp 2010:

not sure what all kind of food you guys are eating but it looks good

hclark...those pics are priceless! Thank you sir for sharing!

Great pictures..I love camps........

This was this morning Steal heading 15 minutes out.Nothing like a cup of coffee and a fire to sooth the mind on a cold rainy day...



Droid X cell phone pic!!!

Jayco

We all love camps, I think that's a big part of why we hunt and fish, just so we have an excuse to camp

Love this thread. I cut and pasted the link and sent it to my hunting buddies.

Those are priceless. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for sharing these.

Wow! 1957 camp is just precious. I could look those pictures over for hours. Thanks!

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Here's a few of what we call Shooterville. Near Itasca State Park, Minnesota:



The loft:



My boy and his buck:



Some members here:



One of two gun racks:



It's my home away from home.

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Deer and Elk Camp at 8200 foot elevation




Horses reseting after packing in the camp

Here is our deer camp on the Pere Marquette River in Branch, Michigan:





And here is the one my 8 yo son Samuel and I shared w/ Mike McCabe & his son this past fall while in Wyoming after PH:

Eat your heart out!

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Love it, the buckskin looks like my kinda horse.

fair weather and good hunting in eastern MT

Lots of good eatn' right there