I live for hunting camp. Gun hunting is fun, but pales in comparison so bow season. We have 80 acres in Tigerton and we have a super nice cabin. Naturally being surrounded in a QDM area helps, there's giant deer in every direction. Wish turkey season was here ! My free time away from work pretty much revolves around my land. Its alittle over an hour drive from my house, I am there usually every two or three weekends. Mowing the lawn by the cabin, or maintaining our seventeen stands because you can pretty much never have enough. My eleven year old daughter loves being up there with me, bought her a brand new bow for her first last year, she shot with me all summer. She comes up and helps me trim out the trails and check stands, she loves helping me do the food plots and set out the trailcams. When we check the pics out she helps me name hit listers and shes getting pretty good at picking out 3 1/2 year olds. I coulddn't be more blessed that she enjoys it, takes me back many years ago when i learned to hunt and followed my dad and uncle around the woods and learned what i needed to get me started. Family tradition is more important than anything, including money. Okay I had more, but Bone collector just started ! Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
Very nice hunting shacks on this thread! I am sure they all have their own unique book full many stories. I dont have any good pictures of our Cabin on my computer. I am going up in two weeks and I hope that I remember to take pictures to share.
Our camp is shared with 24 other members (my father, uncle, and my late grandfather included). I joined when I was able (21yrs old), and when there just happened to be an opening. We're very fortunate in that we live the closest to camp (only a 15-20 minute drive from my house), but we have members spread throughout the state. It's still made up of mostly a few family groups, but there are a few members brought in sponsored by friends. We own ~1200 acres, and while the area is HEAVY timber, and steep rocky terrain, we have a very diversified membership with a lot of initiative, and thanks for the recent natural gas activity, more resources at our disposal. We have a pretty solid ag program, and plant about 30-40 acres of corn, soybeans, turnips, clover, wheat, etc. The deer density is much lower here, and the crowds are little more than I would like so I don't hunt here as much, but I do love coming up and just spending time in camp. The pictures below are a little dated of the cabin (taken three years ago). We've since removed the old roof, raised it to true 8ft ceilings (kept the gambrel roofline), added a second floor bathroom, and put in new hardwood floors. Dad and I walking out opening morning of bear season: Looking out over our "4 acre" field:
That is just awesome! Is it basically a hunt club with "rules"? Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk 2
Wow I'm jealous of all these sweet camps and cabins. I'll have my own someday!! When I was younger and just starting hunting we (my father and uncles and a couple family friends) had a little makeshift cabin camp. It was basically old garage doors and sheets of plywood fastened together into a cabin type thing. It had a old wood burning stove, dirt floor, and homemade 2x4 bunk style cots along the walls. Up on Jacks mountain in PA. Sorry don't have any pics on my phone or computer of it. This was back in 1992. We hunted it for quite a few years until the land was sold off and new owners didn't allow anyone there. Good memories there. Got my first deer there that season in 1992 a spike on opening morning just an hour after sunrise. We used to throw in 10$ a person and first buck takes the $. I won it my first season on opening day, great memories of that place
I suppose you could look at it like that. Pretty thorough bi-laws as is standard with most hunting camps around here. The camp itself is nearing it's centennial anniversary (1915), so it has a lot of history and tradition still embedded. We also have a stocked pond with browns and palomino trout, so you can also fish if you want:D
I should also add that although the hunting pictures I showed are in a tower stand, there's only three of those on the property. Most still hunt out of smaller built stands, or hang-ons. I don't want to give the impression that it's like a fenced tower property like you see on some Texas ranches:D
I bet we know each other. I graduated from Mount Union and lived in Mapleton. I've spent a lot of time on Jacks Mountain.
I never went to high school there though. Did go to grade school there for a year. My father was career Navy so we always moved around. But that's where all of my family is from on both sides. And we always went back home to hunt every year possible. And would go back there for the 3 month period between his duty stations. I would say we probably know some of the same people though. I love it up on Jacks. The hunting isn't the same as when I was younger though that's for sure.
That's awesome bro! PM me and we'll touch base that way. I don't wanna side track this thread. Its a really good thread.
