G-man Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 (edited) Season is fast approaching and my camp has a had few rules in its 30 years of existance at my house. 1. **** Do not move from a stand on a drive until its over !!!! *** One guy banned doing this its #1 safety for drivers and standers. No slack given on this at all 1a. No shooting deer on lawn!! Pretty self explanatory but did get one person banned 2. No cooking of fried baloney or liver inside. Its My house cant stand smell of it.... 3. If you shoot a button buck you on dishes remainder of camp. Really not that hard to distinguish a button bow hunting and gun it takes a little self control but not that hard. 4. Shoot what size buck you want but no complaing about what someone else got if its bigger or smaller. 5. If your over 65 you can hunt out of the hot tub. The tub overlooks a nice 1 acre field/ plot and apple orchard. Nice perk for older member but never been done. But he was excited to hit 65 now 75... lol Edited September 13, 2023 by G-man mowin, cervidchasers, Nomad and 5 others 8
dbHunterNY Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 no deer hunting camp really anymore. uncles' camp pre-season party and get together fizzled when season went to Saturday morning opener. it was always held the Saturday prior to gun season opener. only rules we have now for anyone who hunts the farm are no fawns and have to abide by the antler restriction minimum for the qdm co-op the farm is part of. other than that's it loosely get along and sort out any drama or where you'll hunt between yourselves.
Caveman Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 We don't have a camp, per se. But a bunch of my buddies starting going to a friend's parents house for opening weekend when we were in college, and we still do 13 years later. We only ever had two rules: (1) shoot what makes you happy, and (2) new hunters get the best stand. PraiseDiana 1
grampy Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 2 hours ago, G-man said: Season is fast approaching and my camp has a had few rules in its 30 years of existance at my house. 1. **** Do not move from a stand on a drive until its over !!!! *** One guy banned doing this its #1 safety for drivers and standers. No slack given on this at all 1a. No shooting deer on lawn!! Pretty self explanatory but did get one person banned 2. No cooking of fried baloney or liver inside. Its My house cant stand smell of it.... 3. If you shoot a button buck you on dishes remainder of camp. Really not that hard to distinguish a button bow hunting and gun it takes a little self control but not that hard. 4. Shoot what size buck you want but no complaing about what someone else got wether bigger or smaller. 5. If your over 65 you can hunt out of the hot tub. The tub overlooks a nice 1 acre field/ plot and apple orchard. Nice perk for older member but never been done. But he was excited to hit 65 now 75... lol I qualify for a hot tub hunt! I won't even need a rifle! I'll just stand up in the buff, and scare em to death!!! ShootEm, Otto, dbHunterNY and 5 others 1 7
2BuckBizCT Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Rusty said: Now how am I supposed to get that image out of my head?!?!? try deleting the pic as the screensaver on your phone Doebuck1234, ShootEm, Rusty and 3 others 6
Robhuntandfish Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 (edited) We used to have a hunting and fishing camp. - no lunch beers. Unless you tagged in the morn and were done. - no one goes without a compass and everyone checks in at noon and is back by dark. - no more than one wild card at the poker table - no one but Dad touches Dad's cast iron - you go outside to pee you return with an armload of wood - no TV allowed There were prob others but it was a long time ago. Edited September 13, 2023 by Robhuntandfish "it's pointless for humans to paint scenes of nature when they can go outside and stand in it"- Ron Swanson
G-man Posted September 13, 2023 Author Posted September 13, 2023 Makes me sad , seems many people have not experianced camp. To me its the best part of hunting. Card games euchre mostly , fun stories, sharing cooking meals, watching a hockey/ football together and just comraderie with group of guys / women and now their kids joining as they get older.. ... Even the few days work is needed it makes the day fun and work go by fast.. fletchny11, grampy, Red and 3 others 5 1
Splitear Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 2 minutes ago, G-man said: Makes me sad , seems many people have not experianced camp. To me its the best part of hunting. Card games euchre mostly , fun stories, sharing cooking meals, watching a hockey/ football together and just comraderie with group of guys / women and now their kids joining as they get older.. ... Even the few days work is needed it makes the day fun and work go by fast.. It's something I've never experienced, and I wish I had. We would gather at the shop in the morning and divy up who was going to which stand, but that was really the extent of the gathering outside of skinning. Camp always seemed like such a fun idea to me. ShootEm 1
Caveman Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 2 minutes ago, G-man said: Card games euchre mostly Now I know you're in the Southern Tier. The only time I've been asked to play euchre is with the old timers in Allegany during deer season.
G-man Posted September 13, 2023 Author Posted September 13, 2023 1 minute ago, Caveman said: Now I know you're in the Southern Tier. The only time I've been asked to play euchre is with the old timers in Allegany during deer season. Not far from allegany camp i started hubting with is gone many years now my father friends camp all are passed away but us kids that were last group i was able to get some relics from that camp, the old pìpe holder that hing over fireplace and I even got the marble score board with copper nails heads as counters.
Robhuntandfish Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 We had two camps up in Lewis county. Both small little camps about 150 yards apart just off Chase lake. My Dad had one and my uncle the other. When I was a kid we would be up there all summer and would trout fish all the area streams, swim in Chase lake, fish there at night, chase red squirrels with the BBQ guns. The uncles and my Dad would play poker every night. My Dad was a chef and would cook amazing meals. Such a great time and I sure miss it. We didn't do a lot of hunting but did some. Most of it involved a whole lot of walking and not many deer. But I did see the only bear I've ever seen when I was a kid of about 12 tagging along with my Dad. As I got older Dad couldn't hunt much but me and my brother would be out all day and come back to whatever he had cooked up at camp. Once Dad passed it all wasn't the same, and I was then in college and then working two jobs. Had a camp again in my 30s for a bit up in Indian lake. It got so that having two houses to work on all the time wasn't that fun. Just seemed like that's all I did X2 and never had time to actually enjoy being up there. Browndogs and Lomax 2 "it's pointless for humans to paint scenes of nature when they can go outside and stand in it"- Ron Swanson
Buckmaster7600 Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 Don’t think I have any actual rules at my camp? If you know where the key is you’re always invited, no I’m not hunting with you, if you kill one I’ll help you drag after dark. I remembered my only rule, if you use the toilet seat and don’t hang it back above the stove you’re sitting on the wood from now on! SilentStalker and grampy 2
Bucksnbows Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 I was a member of Camp Yellow Snow in Potter County, PA from roughly 1984 until my buddy sold it about 9 years ago. He’s the one that bought a 247 acre farm near Cooperstown next to another buddy’s 185 acre farm. Now we call our combined camp, Camp Snarker (East and West). We carried over some camp rules. No heavy drinking Friday night. Nobody leaves their stands until 9:30 am even if you scored at first light. We did something opposite here for the camp pot with $20 each (times 8-10). Instead of winning it for the biggest buck as we always did in Camp Yellow Snow, we give it out for the smallest legal buck. It messes with some of the younger guys’ minds. G-man, grampy, BowmanMike and 3 others 5 1 "A sinking fly is closer to Hell" - Anonymous https://www.troutscapes.com https://nativefishcoalition.org/national-board
Buckmaster7600 Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Robhuntandfish said: We used to have a hunting and fishing camp. - no lunch beers. Unless you tagged in the morn and were done. - no one goes without a compass and everyone checks in at noon and is back by dark. - no more than one wild card at the poker table - no one but Dad touches Dad's cast iron - you go outside to pee you return with an armload of wood - no TV allowed There were prob others but it was a long time ago. How did you guys ever kill a deer having to check in at noon and being back by dark?? dbHunterNY 1
Robhuntandfish Posted September 14, 2023 Posted September 14, 2023 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Buckmaster7600 said: How did you guys ever kill a deer having to check in at noon and being back by dark?? I was just a kid. And my uncle and Dad wouldn't go in that far esp with kids. Plus we hunted areas by section and could cover it pretty well in half a day. When I got older I spent all day out there either by myself or with my brother or a buddy. And most of the time we couldve spent a week out there and still not killed a deer. Lol. There was even less deer in the area we hunted in the Dacks then there is now. It was far from productive. The fishing up there was far better then though. Edited September 14, 2023 by Robhuntandfish Buckmaster7600, dbHunterNY, Bucksnbows and 1 other 4 "it's pointless for humans to paint scenes of nature when they can go outside and stand in it"- Ron Swanson
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