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We are underprivileged/disadvantaged and can only afford a tent.---6
Elk camp...Colorado 2012
We are also lazy...too hard to walk in that white stuff....The Gunny, George, my son and myself. For some strange reason, I did find the money for a single action Colt. 2010
All the amenities, that is the pool and hot tub in the distance. 15 minutes from the Angeles National Forest, mule deer and black bear there and we have to use Condor ammo, no lead, a far cry from those Maine and Colorado camps I see here.
And that is my cattle drive chili on the stove.
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In the High Desert of Southern Calif. ..."on the cutting edge of going back in time"...
Cool camps fellers , never had the opportunity around here to do that but would of been fun.
Had the little cabin up on the north fence line for a while i hunted from a couple times myself but seems that camp get togethers happened more in my dads time or before.
City people bring they`er big campers up here nowdays and park them where ever they can.
Because I Can, and Have
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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:53 am
Hey Six- where in Colorado do you go? I've hunted Craig area in the past. Have a good buddy there and have hunted his BIL ranch.
The "poor mans hunt"......public land with a tent.......do it all for under two g's and that includes airfare and the $600+ bull tag.
Public land about 20 miles west of Kremmling...say.....30 miles from Steamboat Springs. ----6
Great pics, everyone!
This is a bittersweet subject for me. My dad and I built this camp in 1995. It sat on 40 acres in Kingsbury up in the hills. Nothing for miles and tough sleddin' to get to. Lots of good times there.
A few years ago, we got caught up in one of those communist windmill projects. We were lucky, as I've worked in the power generation industry for 30 years and knew what questions they didn't want asked. They bought our silence with 200 acres of primo land about 10 miles south.
Our former country was literally destroyed. The camp is still there, empty. They didn't even come for the keys for two years.
We decided not to build another camp, and just haul our ice shack up during hunting season.
I know we "made out", but when my dad is gone I will miss the old camp.
"Oh bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round.
A little thread detour here because we don’t have photos yet...this will be the third time we rent a cabin in Colorado from a guy lives about a half hour from me here in Pennsylvania. We are 20 something miles north of Hayden Colorado. It strikes me as funny that three Pennsylvania hunters and members of this board all hunted within about an hour of each other. Sorry for the detour just struck me as odd.
a Pennsylvanian who has been accused of clinging to my religion and my guns......Good assessment skills.
I know deer camps in America are a little bit different, I saw and stayed in some good ones in Arkansas, from rustic old shacks to trailers to a five bedroom house once.
But I like to take pictures of my campsites - I have many more, but this is what I have loaded on Imgur at the moment:
Siberia River
Elk Country
Rock bivvy
Under a tarp at night
Canoeing camp
Billy and a rifle
After two days walk, camping by lake
A person who carries a cat home by the tail, will receive information that will always be useful to them.
Mark Twain
Carlsen Highway wrote: ↑Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:08 pm
I know deer camps in America are a little bit different, I saw and stayed in some good ones in Arkansas, from rustic old shacks to trailers to a five bedroom house once.
But I like to take pictures of my campsites - I have many more, but this is what I have loaded on Imgur at the moment:
Siberia River; Elk Country; Rock bivvy; Under a tarp at night; Canoeing camp; Billy and a rifle; After two days walk, camping by lake.
Very Nice!
I take it you do a bit of traveling with your rifles.
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Carlsen Highway wrote: ↑Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:08 pm
I know deer camps in America are a little bit different, I saw and stayed in some good ones in Arkansas, from rustic old shacks to trailers to a five bedroom house once.
But I like to take pictures of my campsites - I have many more, but this is what I have loaded on Imgur at the moment:
Siberia River; Elk Country; Rock bivvy; Under a tarp at night; Canoeing camp; Billy and a rifle; After two days walk, camping by lake.
Very Nice!
I take it you do a bit of traveling with your rifles.
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Old WDM Bell said he walked 75 miles for every elephant he shot, I am probably walking about 30 miles for every deer LOL but he didn't have to carry a 25 KG backpack up a mountain. The last few years I have taken up canoeing also to get across the lakes to more remote areas that you can't otherwise access without a helicopter, and so I can carry more gear, and more recently I have got a packraft. Plus I am getting older.
A person who carries a cat home by the tail, will receive information that will always be useful to them.
Mark Twain
fordwannabe wrote: ↑Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:14 pm
A little thread detour here because we don’t have photos yet...this will be the third time we rent a cabin in Colorado from a guy lives about a half hour from me here in Pennsylvania. We are 20 something miles north of Hayden Colorado. It strikes me as funny that three Pennsylvania hunters and members of this board all hunted within about an hour of each other. Sorry for the detour just struck me as odd.
AND the fact that the three of us only live about an hour & 1/2 away from each other!
Carlsen Highway wrote: ↑Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:08 pm
I know deer camps in America are a little bit different, I saw and stayed in some good ones in Arkansas, from rustic old shacks to trailers to a five bedroom house once.
But I like to take pictures of my campsites - I have many more, but this is what I have loaded on Imgur at the moment:
Siberia River; Elk Country; Rock bivvy; Under a tarp at night; Canoeing camp; Billy and a rifle; After two days walk, camping by lake.
Very Nice!
I take it you do a bit of traveling with your rifles.
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Old WDM Bell said he walked 75 miles for every elephant he shot, I am probably walking about 30 miles for every deer LOL but he didn't have to carry a 25 KG backpack up a mountain. The last few years I have taken up canoeing also to get across the lakes to more remote areas that you can't otherwise access without a helicopter, and so I can carry more gear, and more recently I have got a packraft. Plus I am getting older.
So all of those photos are of locations in New Zealand?
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Yes, that's all just New Zealand. (Siberia river is in the NZ SouthernAlps - Not Russian Sibera!)
I would like to go back to the States and go whitetail hunting in some of the deer camps I have seen, somewhere down south again. I have been to the Ozarks, maybe Appalachia
One day I would like to go Elk hunting in the US, Idaho maybe, and also I have a fascination with Eastern Russia, would like to go to the actual Siberia.
I miss the aspect of the deer camps that I discovered over in America, the way that deer season was more of a family time than it is here, and often deer camp is but a rustic place, but it was also like a families holiday home somewhere
A person who carries a cat home by the tail, will receive information that will always be useful to them.
Mark Twain
My older brother lives in Denver and hunts elk out near Kremmling and Silverthorn. I went with him one year, but the weather was too warm and the elk hadn't moved down to those lower elevations yet. We only saw 1 cow elk, and it was moving up into the quakies when we saw it.
D. Brian Casady
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