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He’s teasing us and I have the patience of my 6yr old

He already mentioned how peaceful and quiet it was with no cell service where he's camping and hunting. I'm looking forward to the rest of story myself.

Except he’s been home since Sunday. He’s playing with us. Season ends 12/5 so time is running out.

Sorry guys, I’m not screwing with you, just haven’t had much free time since I got home. Playing catch up from taking over a week off. And hunting when I do get a free hour or two. Sorry to report no buck on the camping trip. I’m heading back to the woods tomorrow for the day. I’ll get some more photos up as soon as I can.

I belonged to The Flying A hunting club for about 12 years. We were 3 1/2 miles north of Hams Inn. We had running water but no shower in camp. A burger and fries, plus $5 for a hot shower was a real treat after being in camp for a week or 10 days!

The camp was a lot of work to put together. The river was high, so no beach to speak of where I landed the boat and canoe, just steep bank. I had all of the gear, including firewood at the campsite by 1pm, and the main part of the tent up.

By 4 pm I had the entire camp set up. All the comforts of home in the middle of wilderness, what a feeling!!! It was about 42F, and mostly overcast and still. This was before daylight savings time ended so off for a quick evening hunt,

5 gallon pails, you cant have enough of them. They make great water proof transportation containers for paper goods or clothes. Once camp is set up, its surprising how much water one person uses a day.
Those little LED battery powered lanterns were great, I think in the week I was in camp, I changed out the batterys once. 4 AA per lantern. The ease of use for 2am piss runs was worth it alone.

The front porch served as a cook shack and food and firewood storage.

Sooo cool

This is what I used for water purification. I got all of my water right out of the Raquette River. The water was still somewhat tea colored after going through the filters, but Ive been home over two weeks and still healthy.
This campsite also had a leanto, which was a nice added bonus. I didn't use it a lot but it was good to have.

Here's the winner of the big woods hunting rifle contest! Remington 7600 Carbine in .30-06. Topped with a Leuplod Vari-X III 1.5-5, you would be hard pressed to find a rifle better suited to this kind of hunting. I have a Marlin 336 in .35 Remington with the Leupold 1.5-5, another 336 but a Texan with a 18" barrel in .30-30 and a 1-3 Weaver, and a 1895G .45-70 with the 1.5-5. Any of those would be well suited also. A model 7 FS 7mm-08 with the Brown Precision stock and a Leupold VX-R 2-7 is also a worthy contender. I bought this 7600 a couple of years ago. I had had a few in the past, and I never warmed up to them. Then I got the urge again and bought this one. I love it!! I think Remington had changed the stock design some, I know Hal Blood of Big Woods Bucks fame had worked with Remington to refine the 7600's and I think this is what they came up with.

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Looks like a great time. How was the deer sign?

Wow, that is a palatial tent camp for a wilderness set up! We did that out west with more guys and it worked better, but I tried it with a pup tent and it made a memory, though not a good one. Opening day get back to the tent around 5:00, fire up the stove, cook dinner, eat dinner, it's 5:30. Now what? Go to bed I guess. Oh, oh. Condensation dripping off the tent has the sleeping bag wet. Sleep in deer hunting cloths and rain gear. Portable sauna. Sweat, get cold, 2;00 a.m. Wide awake and all slept out. Thinking about home, electricity and central heating. Realize those deer never did anything bad to me, heck Sweetness isn't going to help me eat one anyway. What am I doing out here besides making a bad memory? Wilderness misery camping just isn't in my DNA I guess. Your set up looks WAY better.

I fell into an easy routine the first day. I would get up around 5am, have coffee, and a cold breakfast around the awesome wood stove. Then time for the daily sponge bath. A dish pan and a 5 gallon bucket both about half full of hot water, was Heaven on Earth. This also was in front of the wood stove, talk about luxury in the middle of nowhere! Usually around 6:20 it was out for the morning hunt. Around 11-1 I would head back to camp. Mid day meal was a lot bigger than I had planned on, but a full morning in the mountains works up an appetite. More than once I surrendered to the comfortable cot in the warm tent and had a nice midday nap. Then back out to hunt until dark. Most mornings I spent still hunting, and covering some ground. Afternoons I usually still hunted my way to a good stand and sat watch until the end of legal shooting light, which is half hour after sunset in New York now. Thats new this year, previously it had been sunrise to sunset. Depending on where in the woods you are, half hour past sunset can be plenty dark! After getting back to camp, it was time for the big evening meal. After dishes were done it was still quite early. I had a couple decent books with me, as well as my new shortwave radio. I think 8pm was the latest I ever stayed up. Usually once or twice during the night I had to make a piss run, and also stoke the wood stove. A couple nights the cold woke me up. The stove performed great, but it wouldn't heat the tent for 8 hours, 4-5 at the most. Then it was back up to do it all again. It was such a basic, and rewarding way to live. The days flew by.