Any one have pics of their new or old hunting camps? My parents bought this property around 1970 for $215 an acre. I'll never sell it. They put a 42' house trailer on it, and it held up till about 10 years ago. We have electric and that's all. Fridge always has bottled water, a few soda's and lots of good beer. We usually have 4 guys for deer camp, and it gets real tight. 8or9 years ago we took out the big double window in the back and built an 8X12 room, we call the WV room. It made the trailer a lot more comfortable space wise, but it was still rusting away. Termites got in the wood frame and 20' of wall started to pull away from the floor, you could see daylight out the crack. We screwed a 2X4 to the floor, and ran 3" deck screws through the wall to keep it from falling off. We bring all of our cooking and bathing water with us. Two years ago I shot a deer and butchered it the same afternoon. Our county has had a couple cases of CWD, so we can't transport the whole carcass home. I heated up a big tub of water and washed up pretty good. That night, while sleeping, I felt something move on my thumb, flicked my hand, thinking it was a bug. Then I felt it again and flicked my hand, still half asleep. Then it bit me, slapped it and a mouse flew across the room and hit the wall, then scampered off. When I looked at my thumb, there were faint traces of deer blood in my finger print, that's what the mouse was after. Never went back to sleep. The next day put out mouse traps. My buddy Mike showed up, he'd been up all night travelling. About 4 it started getting dark, we were waiting for 99guy to show up at 7 for dinner, and Mike said he was going to take a nap. I'd been up since the mouse bit me, so I said yeah, me too, Randy will wake us up when he gets here. Before I turned out the lights I moved a trap over by the base of the fridge. Within one minute of turning out the lights, Mickey F'ed up, WHAP. Took Mickey out and threw him on the campfire, moved another trap over in the same place, turned the lights out and WHAP, there went Minney. I think we got 7 mice in two days. That was when I told my wife that we were building a new cabin come hell or high water. Just on a whim I road into Moorefield to check out the sheds they made. There was a 12'X40' garage package sitting there that had been reppoped. I got it for 10% off, $7200 dollars. It took about 3 months to get the drive cleared, about a mile of trees that had to be cut back from 8' wide to 14' wide, getting a contractor to grade the pad, then another to bring the stone in. Finally, yesterday, they delivered the new garage/bunk house.

WOW ! that's gonna be nice

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That look Sweet Joe! your old trailer sounds like the one we had years ago it was 1956 Great Lakes ! Kerosene, heat gas light, carried our water in and washed at a small river. out house to top it off, those were some of the best falls in my Life!

Hunting camp is home here

Nice.

One of my cousins bought 80 acres of a larger farm in the next township. The house and barn got hit by lighting and burned to the ground back in the 1970s. All that is left is a well and a silo. He wanted to move in a building similar to yours for a hunting camp. He checked with the local zoning department first and they said no. So he said he would buy a camping trailer and put it there, he could not do that either. He could not even move in a trailer home. He could only put on a building with minimum of 800 sq. ft..

Hunting camp.

Joe:

I'm glad you got the one with the over head door so I will have a place to park my truck

Joe:

is that a brand new shooting bench I see?

Very nice!

That is going to make a nice one, Joe.

Here are pics of the deer camps on both sides of the family. Pics 1-3 are at the wife’s side; 4-6 are on my side. On the second set, the front entrance has a mud room for taking off and hanging clothes and gear with a 2nd door inside to the main area.

Should have turned the Silo into a multi story Hunting Hut who would know

Yep, Johns son and his buddies made it. Donated the old one to the campfire. I plan on putting an interior wall about 8 feet in from the roll up because it leaks a lot of air, that will be the mud room, hang a gimble from the roof and be a skinning room. Since we have to butcher everything first, because of CWD, we can do it in light with heat.

We lived in ours in the warmer months for quite a few years. Now it's for sale, time to downsize.

I put a 12'x16' shed up on my little bit of heaven last year, just to have a place to get out of the sun or away from the snow. Probably will set up a cot in there quite a few times. Plenty of room.

I like yours. Very nice.

Couple pics of mine, critters don't seem to object to it.

Need to plant some gooseberry bushes around it. You have gooseberries up there? Good color.

The Great Escape! Everyone should have one.

Humble beginnings...


Travel trailer w/porch update...


Nirvana...

Looking for a camp now in the UP of Mich.

southern savage when can I move in I love the looks of that cabin

I've seen Gooseberries a couple times, but never in WV. I can't remember where I saw them. Might have been cultivated plants.

I like the evolution from trailer to cabin!

Some suggested he put a platform on top for a deer stand, but I will pass on your suggestion.

The great escape is awsome! I have always wanted one. Built my home on that premise and have never been much about company or strangers here.
RAS where are you looking? I will keep my eyes open. My little get awy is in manistique anfd now my boys are grown we do not get there much

I concede a bit of a mission
But anything is possible if desired

Sorry I had to bail on you Friday, Joe. (Insomnia the night before- zero sleep equals zero ability for me to do anything.) That building looks awesome there!

I spent more than a few nights in that old trailer and the worst thing about it to me certainly wasn't the wildlife inhabitants, rather the vigorous snoring that emanated from the front room!!

Yeah, John does snore pretty bad, worse part is he does it breathing in, and out.

We don't own this cabin but it is next door to our property. We can walk to our place. Our friends let us hunt on their ground as well.

BIL's new place.Lot's of Deer & Bear.

Is that in the Catskills? My club camp is in East Branch, Delaware Co.

Wish I could figure out how to reduce photos' size so I could post them.

Around the Woodridge area.We also hunt Masonville outside of Walton.

I accompanied Joe to his camp in WV on Friday, and I gotta say it's got a ton of potential. It'll end up a mighty fine place when he's done building out the interior. A good day was had by all, and lots of lead was thrown around (but mainly in the form of .45ACP bullets).