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Deer camp is one of my favorite places. As someone else said, it's hard to explain to someone who has never been. I have been very lucky, I have been hunting with the same group of people for over 10 years now. It's a smaller group of people but thats ok because less people equals less drama and we all get along very well. When we go to camp hunting is an after thought. We will call/text each other during the week about who's going to bring what food, who's bringing whiskey to sip around the fire at night. Our camp is 2 storage sheds that we insulated and wired for electricity. We do not have any running water at camp so we have to bring our water with us every time. We do all of our cooking outside, 2 charcoal grill, 2 propane burners, and a camp stove. The best part of hunting camp is the camp fire. We constantly have a fire going. We have a huge fire pit. Sitting around the fire pit at night with a beer or in the morning with a hot cup of coffee is hands down the best part of deer camp. Thats where everyone tells stories.

Deer camp is one of the greatest experiences. It would be a lot easier to hunt property close to the house but it would not be nearly as fun.

Just me and my dog in a yurt tent. Not as fun as camps in the past, but I get to bed at a decent hour lol. I used to be a member at a drinking club where people occasionally hunted.

Choomolly’s definitely doesn’t help that!

Our camp is only family that stays in our house most of the time, but have several friends up there hunting the same area including HallB. We enjoy the camp fire and a few drinks while grilling out. Turns out Hallb isn’t terrible at Karaoke after several drinks either.

I was in a club in Benevola, AL in the 80's that was absolutely the most hunter-friendly, good-hearted, good-time club ever. I hunted with a group of men from Chalmette, LA and they were all professional men-one was even the DA of that Parrish. We had a two-room cabin that had a kitchen area built onto it and a huge fireplace in the other end. I never came home without eating a new kind of Cajun cuisine or having some kind of a new drink! I had meals that I never even imagined could be cooked. We even had a "Chinaman" as they called him to cook for us and cook he did. This was all he did while he was with us. We managed to kill a few deer, as the area was not a very good hunting area according to numbers of deer. The members always loved the ladies and there were a few always hanging around the camp looking for one of the men to take her away. Anyway, the cabin came up burned, and I still don't know the exact reason why, but it did. The LA members found another area to hunt that was too far away for me, so that ended that. I sure miss those ole boys. Rest in peace Claude Mumphrey.

That’s probably the quickest way to kill a club. We had a member once that would show up every Friday, sign out and in for three days worth of hunting, then leave. He had a girlfriend in town that he’d spend the weekend with and was trying to cover his tracks and make it look like he had been hunting. He wasn’t invited back after one season. Another guy brought his wife every weekend, which normally wasn’t a problem. They had just had a baby though so one of them had to stay at the camp with the baby, in their camper, while the other hunted. He was a psycho and thought every man in the club was trying to hook up with her while he was out hunting. They weren’t invited back either.

This thread brought back a lot of good memories!

I am lucky to have been in a group of friends who hunts the land of one of the members. We pay dues (but less than we probably should) but we keep all the roads open and fences in good shape. The owners family lived on this land for 4 generations and their old home place is now our "camphouse". We also pay for any repairs or renovations to the house. It is a 5 bedroom\ 3 bath house with central AC.

The men who I hunt with are my best friends. Our place was started as a very family oriented place. Wives and children were always welcome. We have had up to 24 people spending the night a few times but usually its about 10-12. We have had it for about 17 years.

Its 1100 acres and we started with 10 members but that has dwindled to 8 (a couple of guys moved away), one of the remaining 8 never hunts, but will come for the brotherhood. One only hunts turkeys and only comes then. Over the years we have had the place we have built a really nice barn and a cooking porch. We dont hunt as hard as we did when we were younger but some of our children do. Some of my best memories are sitting in a stand with my kids, or around the firepit.

My children dont realize how good they have had it. They think this is the way it is supposed to be but its rare for people to stay together like we have. Some of the "kids" are grown and have moved away but whenever they come back to town they always head over for a hunt or two.

It is a very special place.

Sounds like a good set up. I’m in kind of the same deal but it’s mostly
me and a friend hunting his place. The kids have gotten grown and busy
but they show up every now and then.

It’s like paradise to me. I live close and he’s 4 hours away so I keep an
eye on things and do a lot of work.

I love our camp, good people good food good memories

You would be correct they don’t have any idea how good they have it. I grew up in a couple like that but they always fell apart for different reasons.