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Okay,..I'll be the one to ask.

For us Noobs,...what's the story behind Northern Dave's Chick'n'Buck avatar.

There's got to be a story.....

It starts with the best Campfire thread ever, tacked at the top of the Deer Hunting section. The first post spells out a lot of it & then there are 267 pages to catch up on..

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1594212/1/Birth_of_a_deer_camp

From the wild imagination of a young boy. My youngest boy.

We built and started a deer camp in 2007, it was a family venture. Kids were always along as we were swinging hammers building the cabin, laying logs in mud holes to corduroy bad spots on the truck trail, cutting trails, building deer stands etc.

Our youngest boy was actually only 3 when we started the project, he�s 6 now.

Somewhere along the line in the whole project he began telling stories of animals that only he could see out in the forest. The first one of these imaginary animals was a critter called a �chickenbuck�

There were also leopard squirrels, flying bears, swamp squids� I dunno, there may have been a few more, hard to keep track of.

I really got a kick out of the imaginative stories though as did the rest of the camp.

One weekend It was just me and the little guy out at camp and we were sitting at a table together talking about the chickenbuck. I had to ask him what it looked like since I had never seen one.

I got out a pencil and a notepad and did my best artist�s rendering based on his accounts.

This is what we came up with.



That was the original chickenbuck.

I�ve had fun with it over the past few years, We named the deer camp �camp chickenbuck� And 3 years later the little guy still entertains us all with stories that seem to involve 3 main characters. The chickenbuck, the flying bear and the swamp squid.

The 3 critters are always after each other with a sort of �rock paper scissors� set of basic rules of engagement.

A while back I was having fun with the idea of a chickenbuck that reflected life at camp. This is the guy I came up with.



I have a local printing company working on art proofs for printing t-shirts, can cozies etc right now.

I guess that�s kind of the long & short of it.

Just a fun camp name based on an imaginary critter from the mind of a 3 year old.

Does this look like the kind of guy that would just make something like that up?

Keep an eye on that one. He looks like trouble.

here's one of our hats.

Here's a table inside the shack that My cousin made for the camp. It's a copy of the first little plywood sign that we nailed to a tree on the way in to camp at the gate.

Those hats would sell. Really!

Umm, Dave.... did you do the joist hangers all by yourself?

You goof! I end nailed all the joists really quick from the outside then had my older boy go ahead of me and hang a hanger on each joist as I went along with the framing hammer, flipped em fit em & nailed em

some chickenbuck humor from last deer season at the expense of tzone who built the blind these chickenbucks are standing in.

uh huh. sure. makes perfect sense.

shooting with the youngest boy



What are we shooting at?



Texas heart shot!!


we got him better this time though!!

See, the chickenbuck is a pretty big deal.

I saw that too and kinda figured they were waiting there to be flipped and nailed.

Dave, I think if you wanted to, you could sell a ton of this Chickenbuck stuff. It's probably gonna get some of my bucks.

That's a tatoo. The first one in our group.

It's the result of my uncle taking a photo of the plywood and sharpie marker sign at our gate into camp. He took the photo to a tattoo shop and said "put that on my arm"

lol!!

There is a foot tattoo in camp too, I cant find a photo of that one right now.

That's friggin awesome. I wouldn't do it, but man I like it. You need to sell them hats.



Clyde

Now I got it,...that's Pretty Damn Funny...!

Dave,

You might contact Rick Bin to see who did his caps. He had some nice ones made a few years ago with the Campfire logo. Orange, Camo & Tan, IIRC. Some were a bit on the tall side, but some were nice lower profile. They looked pretty good..

Hey Dave, whut wuz the caliber of the special rifle that Plays with Matches uses to kill the flying bears and sawmp squids????? I fergit these things. Age ya know