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Re: Deer Camps GuyM #8089802 09/21/13
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,454 Stuart,FL billy336 Campfire Regular
billy336 Campfire Regular Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,454 Stuart,FL	Great thread! Our camp is in Ft Drum, FL. About 20 miles north of Lake Okeechobee. What started as a basic 8x28 construction trailer with a deck out front ended up a damn chalet. Our landowner is a contractor and has enslaved us. 3 years of Saturdays and we ended up hardi planked with hurricane windows, an outhouse, attached shed, and we are close to trimming out inside. Long Live The Judge Thinking of moving to Florida? Don't........

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Re: Deer Camps billy336 #8090070 09/21/13
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 46,745 Just The Tip T tzone OP Campfire 'Bwana
OP tzone Campfire 'Bwana T Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 46,745 Just The Tip	Awesome. You guys did a lot with a job shack. I like the porch. Camp is where you make it.

Re: Deer Camps tzone #8091715 09/21/13
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,721 Likes: 4 Minnesota R Rooster7 Campfire Ranger
Rooster7 Campfire Ranger R Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,721 Likes: 4 Minnesota	Great pics everyone! My hunting "camp" shut down in the mid 90's. I miss not having one. I bow hunt and muzzleload now but I sure miss the comradary of deer camp. The deer hunter does not notice the mountains "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...

Re: Deer Camps Rooster7 #8092051 09/22/13
Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 347 S.W. Pa A admin100 Campfire Member
admin100 Campfire Member A Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 347 S.W. Pa	Rooster7 i know what you mean!! in Pa our buck/rifle season starts on the monday following Thanksgiving. my wife doesnt understand why i leave on friday to travel 35 miles to hunt on monday. it doesnt matter if your tagged out from archery, or the early inline season, my truck is heading to camp that friday. in my family it is camo friday, not black friday. its the stories that are to be made and the memories that have been made. football, hunting shows, beer, and lack of cell service are a plus too.i will be 48 soon and cant imagine not doing it, i thank God and my family for permitting me to do it. Last edited by admin100; 09/22/13.

Re: Deer Camps ChipM #8092102 09/22/13
Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,185 CT C CLB Campfire Tracker
CLB Campfire Tracker C Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,185 CT	Originally Posted by ChipM Originally Posted by okiebowhunter This is a great post. Ive had many camp, some redneck mansions some just tents. As of now I have small parcells to hunt, all my good stuff ive benn screwed over on. I hunt out of state about ever other week nowadays. The best camp we ever had was in Refugio, Tx. Me, dad, and uncle Geno had a lease on The River Trap. It holds some of my fondest memories with dad. As some of you may recall I lost dad a year ago. I think of our time spent down there everday. Ill try to dig up some pics. I miss the days when a little spike or forky was a trophy. I have fallen into the inches game. Sometimes I wonder if it wasnt more fun back then. But I also spend a lot of time teaching my 9 yr old. Im trying to find a way to hunt up in NY, Maine, MN, or PA. From the pics I see of the country its beautiful. Ivegot the plaid andslew of levers at the ready. Keep this thread hot! Maine is the toughest place I ever hunted, here are some habitat photos, woods are thick with some openings. And I showed the wool, now here is the lever action. Mostly hunt with bolt action carbines now but a Marlin levergun usually gets a walk in the woods at least one day. Can't wait to get back up there next season my friend......

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Re: Deer Camps CLB #8092139 09/22/13
Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 347 S.W. Pa A admin100 Campfire Member
admin100 Campfire Member A Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 347 S.W. Pa	CLB, do you hunt in Pa??

Re: Deer Camps admin100 #8092149 09/22/13
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,721 Likes: 4 Minnesota R Rooster7 Campfire Ranger
Rooster7 Campfire Ranger R Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,721 Likes: 4 Minnesota	Originally Posted by admin100 Rooster7 i know what you mean!! in Pa our buck/rifle season starts on the monday following Thanksgiving. my wife doesnt understand why i leave on friday to travel 35 miles to hunt on monday. it doesnt matter if your tagged out from archery, or the early inline season, my truck is heading to camp that friday. in my family it is camo friday, not black friday. its the stories that are to be made and the memories that have been made. football, hunting shows, beer, and lack of cell service are a plus too.i will be 48 soon and cant imagine not doing it, i thank God and my family for permitting me to do it. I'm envious. My older cousin started our deer camp back in the early 80's. It was made up of a couple of his buddies, his father, his fathers nephews, a couple of other uncles and cousins. My cousin who started it died in a house fire in '86. After that his buddies dropped out. The rest tried to continue on and we did for another 8 or 9 years. Over that time we had people join and people drop out. Then my Uncles decided they were too old to do it anymore and everyone just kind of quit. Oh how I miss the laughs we had, my uncles stories, the excitement when someone got a buck and just the great atmosphere that was always at deer camp. Even after Ron died, the atmosphere at camp that next year was the same as ever and that is exactly how he would have wanted it... The deer hunter does not notice the mountains "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...

Re: Deer Camps admin100 #8092169 09/22/13
Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,185 CT C CLB Campfire Tracker
CLB Campfire Tracker C Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,185 CT	Originally Posted by admin100 CLB, do you hunt in Pa?? It's been many years since I've hunted PA. Had an uncle who lived out in Warren and spent my early years out that way with my father and uncle. I started hunting with a group of guys in the early 80's in the Scranton area. One of the guys had connections with a few farmers and we had several private farms to hunt on. Was a good run for a long while. My buddy ChipM was on several of those hunts.

Re: Deer Camps CLB #8092206 09/22/13
Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 347 S.W. Pa A admin100 Campfire Member
admin100 Campfire Member A Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 347 S.W. Pa	all your stories sound similar, the traditions seem to be dwindling . the younger members of my family, my 3 sons included have no interest in the tradition. im the youngest in our group at 48yrs, so im the gutter, dragger, go for,start my truck and clean my windows, and/or pick me up in 3 hours guy, but after doing it for the last 36yrs, i wouldnt change it for the world. i wish that others had the fun that i have had doing that stuff.

Re: Deer Camps admin100 #8092502 09/22/13
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,467 Likes: 2 OreGONE G GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger
GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger G Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,467 Likes: 2 OreGONE	Headed to deer camp Tuesday to make more memories. Kind of sad right now because I'm moving out of state and this may very well be my last deer hunt in Utah.

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Re: Deer Camps admin100 #8092522 09/22/13
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 6,975 Likes: 1 Colorado Springs, Colorado USA KC Campfire Tracker
KC Campfire Tracker Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 6,975 Likes: 1 Colorado Springs, Colorado USA	I've gone from this To this And back to this With a few in-between Hunting Coues Deer in Arizona Caribou camp northern Alaska One of many Colorado Elk/deer camps Inside the wall tent on another Colorado hunting camp [img]http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww288/KCKeen/Camps/CampKCinside.jpg[/img] This is a friend's Texas deer camp [img]http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww288/KCKeen/Camps/IM000201-1.jpg[/img] These were not deer camps, but fun just the same [img]http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww288/KCKeen/Camps/McKinleyTent.jpg[/img] [img]http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww288/KCKeen/Camps/Shasta.jpg[/img] KC Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.

Re: Deer Camps KC #8093176 09/22/13
Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 134 tweeter Campfire Member
tweeter Campfire Member Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 134	Only pics I have in my photobucket First deer Serious Pitch Pitch game All night pitch games really take it out of you Three generations.... Two more are there in spirit

Re: Deer Camps GreatWaputi #8093191 09/22/13
Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 347 S.W. Pa A admin100 Campfire Member
admin100 Campfire Member A Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 347 S.W. Pa	hey GreatWaputi!!! sorry to hear, but i believe that things happen for a reason,maybe better hunting,and new friends. where are you moving??

Re: Deer Camps gophergunner #8097027 09/23/13
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 3,394 No place special wildone Campfire Tracker
wildone Campfire Tracker Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 3,394 No place special	Here is camp up in NY , and before you flame me no it aint a canned hunt its just what they called the place in 1949 I Kill Things......deal with it..

Re: Deer Camps okiebowhunter #8097488 09/23/13
Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 9,031 show me mo R rockchucker Campfire Outfitter
rockchucker Campfire Outfitter R Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 9,031 show me mo	summer picture of our north missouri camp on the wife and my farm FJB

Re: Deer Camps tzone #8117828 10/01/13
Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 211 Charlotte,NC G gmiller Campfire Member
gmiller Campfire Member G Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 211 Charlotte,NC	Our camp Last edited by gmiller; 10/01/13.

Re: Deer Camps gmiller #8117851 10/01/13
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 10,653 Badger State roundoak Campfire Outfitter
roundoak Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 10,653 Badger State	GM, nice. I could live there. Do I see logs in the structure? Wayne You're Welcome At My Fire Anytime

Re: Deer Camps gmiller #8117908 10/01/13
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota N northern_dave Campfire 'Bwana
northern_dave Campfire 'Bwana N Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota	That's way cool. Something clever here.

Re: Deer Camps northern_dave #8118368 10/01/13
Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 211 Charlotte,NC G gmiller Campfire Member
gmiller Campfire Member G Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 211 Charlotte,NC	No power or running water. We're planning to stay there from Nov 8th to the 16th. out the back door Inside We've done some work this year. New beds and some shelves. It looks better. Last edited by gmiller; 10/01/13.

Re: Deer Camps gmiller #8118720 10/01/13
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 4,320 1 1234567 Campfire Tracker
1234567 Campfire Tracker 1 Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 4,320	I would like to suggest one addition to threads of this type--put the location (state) along with the picture.

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