Deer Camp Memories!!!

[Spitfire]

What is your favorite deer camp memory? Or maybe one incident that just sticks out in your mind every time "Deer Camp" is mentioned?

The most recent incident and the probably the most hilarious would be from Deer Camp 2000. We are all sittin around the fire and CD2 is running at the mouth when all of a sudden he's gone. Where did he go you ask? Well, the fold out stool that he was sitting on just collapsed. There wasn't even a warning, it just went and CD2 is flat on his back laughing his butt off. Needless to say, but that stool went in the fire.

The next one happened at Deer Camp in TIonesta, PA. This was one of my very first bowhunts and my first ever shot on a whitetail. I remember sitting on the side of a hill up above camp. I was overlooking a creek bottom where an old logging road ran parallel with it. There was alot of fresh sign on this road so I was told by one of the guys that was in camp to sit in that general area and there was a good chance I would see a deer. So being young and not knowing a whole lot I found a stump about 25 yds. off the logging road and started bowhunting. I dont know how long I sat there when I caught movement to my right crossing the creek bed. Ah man, it was just a squirrel! (gotcha!!!)
Anyway, it wasn't to awful long before I see this deer heading right for me. I could see that it was a doe and she was coming down the old logging road. This was to sweet, cause this was one of my first bowhunts and I was going to get my first deer on an out of state deer hunt. But it was not to be! That doe came right down that path she stopped at 25 yds, broadside and I missed. Thats right, I missed!!! Not even thinking about shooting down hill, I shot right over her back and my arrow went right into the creek. Nobody had ever explained what to do when shooting down hill, I had to learn the hard way!!!. I still have that arrow today and the broadhead is still on it and missing a blade. It is in a creek outside of Tionesta, PA.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

That was one damn good one,but i think that stool learnt it lesson though. but i will have to think on this one will get back to you.

[Spitfire]

Geez!!!!
Come on now, it shouldn't be that difficult to think of one.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Still thinking hay i never said i was a spelling teacher.I have a job were the only thing that is think is my lower head not the top one.;)

[Spitfire]

I guess nobody has any camping memories, atleast not any good ones. I'll give ya some more as soon as I get back from town. I have to go get some pictures that I forgot was getting developed.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Well after thinking about this i would have to say the first deer camp we had in zalaski.Why just because it was my first deer camp,Alot of memories on that hunt Kenny falling off and breaking about every chair we had ,Martha and her husband in there rv tent .And the boys with the lights on there head about 3am in the morning trying to set up camp,Then to top it off with the sweet looking one that we all woke up to in the morning.

[Spitfire]

Yea, that was a pretty good one huh! And how sweet she was, oh my!!!! Haven't seen one like that since, except maybe at The Ohio Valley Trading Post. Remember that trip CD2? Jonathan missed out on that one!

How about the one day hunt to show Jonathan around before Deer Camp and we both filled our tags. Within ten minutes of one another!!! Then the hard part came of getting them out of the bottom. 51/2 hrs. later we hit Nelsonville, what a good time. You & I need to make a trip down there again. We have pretty good luck together. This years results proved that.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

I know what you mean spiter,We will have to do it someday
Ahh yea i forgot about that one at ohio valley what a beauty.
That day was the most rememberal one i will not forget that at all.

[Spitfire]

My dad woke me about 3:30 in the morning and said it was time to leave. Of course I wasn't much asleep by being so excited, it was like christmas eve for me. We piled into dads old CJ-7 and hit the road. Let me tell ya, 60mph. on the highway in an old jeep is not fun. There was a draft coming from every part of that jeep. I was freezing my butt off. Anyway, we had been on the road for what seemed like forever when dad decided we would stop and get breakfast. We went into this truck stop and ordered something to eat. I didn't really feel like eating so I just sat there and picked at my food. As dad was paying the bill he asked if I wanted a pack of cheese & crackers for the road in case I got hungry later. So we get back in the Jeep and we weren't on the road 5 minutes and I had that eaten and dad was furious because he payed for a meal that I didn't even touch. Of course I thought it was funny and think it's even funnier today. I'll never forget that moment of Deer Camp and that cold ass trip in that old Jeep.
Thinking of these things makes me glad that my son will be going with me for years to come. I'll just remember to buy him cheese & crackers first instead of a meal!

[Caribou Dreamer2]

I think this one will be the most memorable for me.I can't see in the future so why not dream the big one this year at camp 160 plus,Secret spot,Down the hill follow the creek line ,back up the hill, back down the hill follow the creek some more then back up the hill to the honey hole.:D

[Spitfire]

For some reason I don't see that happening but I wish you all the luck in the world. By the way, in your dream, who is dragging this deer up & down all these hills. I know ole spitfire isn't in there cause I am sitting around the campfire with a cold one eating backstraps off my deer.

[Q2XL]

now yore talkin caribou the old secret spot .it will produce.hey wick how you been you been doin any good huntin.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

If and when i shoot my buck i will drag it out all by myself if nobody wants to help old caribou out,Beside i have all week and alot of cold beverages to get me out of those woods.If i have to pitch a tent and move it out the next day then i will do.But remember one thing i will be drunk and enjoying myself and my deer with or with out anybody else.

[Spitfire]

Lighten up a bit CD. You won't be alone for crying out loud, Doodle will be right beside ya.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Thats true.We will get it out;)

[Q2XL]

yea CD you know no noodle will help drag yuor deer out .

[Spitfire]

Yea, you two are like a couple alaskan sled dogs. Never far apart! LOLOL!!!!

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Sniffing each others asses. ROTFLMAO

[Spitfire]

Laughing my *** off right now!!!!!:D I don't need any details what you two do together. You know what they say about being with another person so much don't ya?

[Caribou Dreamer2]

:D

[Spitfire]

Come on guys! Everybody has a camp story, why not share it? Tell everybody about those songs fox hunter sang last year at camp Q2XL! That was stinkin hilarious. Check this place out I found a while back about deer camp in Wayne National Forest.clevessf.dev.advance.net/sports/outdoors/pdnews00/s30out.html

I thought it was pretty neat, kind of describes our camp. Almost to a tee!!!

[Q2XL]

i dont even want to start about fox hunter and his singin.i would say that all the camps i have been too are good memories and there is not really any one thing that stands out to me as bein the best cause they are all good times.probably the best would have to be the story about caribou and the squirrel though.

[Spitfire]

Yea, "The squirrel hunt" will go down as a good. That's a good lesson for future hunters on what not to do while squirrel hunting.

What was wrong with fox hunters singing? I thought it was pretty good, atleast he stayed with the beat!

[Q2XL]

i never said there was anything wrong with his singin just what he was singin about

[Spitfire]

Oh, ok then. I thought it was pretty gosh darn funny. If it wasn't for him it would have been pretty boring & CD would have been ragging on someone.

[wilybuck]

my most memorable time was huntin out on 179 with spitfire and we were both in the same tree.....ole spit fell out of the tree and was hangin on the brach with both hands yellin how far down ..how far down..... all the while i was in the tree laughin so hard that i was almost fallin out myself...he was only about 2 inches off the ground.... thinkin he was 12 feet off the ground.... remember that time ole spitfire....we know what really happened even tho u goin to deny it...... lmao wily

[Spitfire]

Yea, your right, I will deny it cause it was you hangin from that limb ya big ogre! That was stinkin funny, that was the same place you dropped everything out of your stand and it broke wasn't it?

[wilybuck]

that was in the top corner where you where hanging from the tree ..... mine was down in the gulley where i dropped that milk crate out of the tree and that friggin bottle of fox piss broke and got all over everything...... remember ole mike and the guy he was makin out with in the station wagon........... that was a pukin type of laughin situation or when mathewsq2 puked out the car window goin 60 mph and slick his hair back with all the puke

[Spitfire]

That is to funny! silick'n his hair back like it was hair gel or somethi'n. Oh my gosh, that was nasty, and you being the sympathy puker had to do the same thing up front. The only thing in that car that didn't have puke on it was my side of the car. Where did we go that day? I remember coming home from columbus.

[wilybuck]

the deer expo in columbus and he puked up his cheddars supper....

[Spitfire]

Oh yea, I couldn't remember why we were over there. It wasn't to hard to remember what went flying all over the car. For crying out load I got to see it twice.

[Spitfire]

Hey Wily, remember our dad's yelling at us for rolling down those hill's in PA. That was stinkin fun! "You boys better quit rolling down that hill before ya get a stick stuck up your @$$"! I remember that like it was yesterday. We will probably be telling our boys that before we know it.

[wilybuck]

yeah i remember that ----and it does seem like it was just yesterday.....those where the good ole days...where we just did what we wanted to and all we where worried about is where that hot dog was goin to come from for lunch.....then the skunk in the dumpster and ridin over there and freezin our butts off in the back of the jeep........

[Spitfire]

Oh my gosh, I forgot about that Skunk! That was awful! I remember not wanting to take the trash over there every night cause of that nasty thing. THat was a very cold ride. We tried everything possible to keep warm and nothing worked. Stuffing blankets in the gaps where the doors were being blown out by the wind. Iwould do it again though if I could!

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Ahh memories are a good thing,just if we all lived in our own worlds:cool:

[Spitfire]

Yea, that's to bad isn't it? Memories are a good thing but of course you wouldn't know about that would you CD2?

[Caribou Dreamer2]

No i have trouble remember yesterday i guess i been hit to many times on the head or to much sun fried my memory or maybe when i was in high school,Ah know i know what they were saying when they say this is your brain on d4344

[Spitfire]

That's what I thought CD!

[rjolenic]

OK, here the most memorable deercamp experience I have ever been part of:

I take my new buddy HOYTME down to deer camp for the first time ever, barely knowing him. And an unidentified person in our camp decides they have to take a shower. Well, we are out in the other room playin the guitars and all and next thing you know, this guy walks out of the shower stark naked with just his cowboy hat on and just stands there. We were like: WHAT THE MOTHER!!??? And I just say to HOYTME, well, that's just how he is, and you'll get used to it.

And ever since we just understand.

rjo

[WickOhio]

I remember one year I took a shower after a long day of hunting and I forgot my towel so I put on my cowboy hat and walked out in the family room and grabbed Ray's hunting clothes. I dried off and the rest is history!

[Spitfire]

Too funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Q2XL]

okay :rolleyes:

[Caribou Dreamer2]

Hay wick i will bring a extra towel this year for you i will keep it in the shower house.

[WickOhio]

I need towels! Lots of them

[rjolenic]

Ok ... how about the time when we set out the smorgasboard for the racoons. We thought we were smart enough to bag one of them from the tent during the middle of the night. Now that was funny! No, no one shot anything.

rjo

[Caribou Dreamer2]

I will bring plenty for you,If you need more than one you are than man.

[Dear_Hunter]

That was so what the mother funny just a cowboy hat . Sorry im still laughing my a$$ off. Hey rjolenic now I know why you asked us if wick wore his Cowboy hat when we went down to Zaleski durring Muzzleload season. Did that make your new friend Hoytme wonder what he was in for at camp. :D

[dirtdigger]

my funniest time i rember. i am an equipment operator and i had this city boy that was about 19 that neever deer hunted before, every day from july on he hounded me to take him. so gunseason came, i took the weekend before made him get his safety course, he did good so i said i would take him down to adams county where i hunt. it was pretty cold so we both were in our carharts, well needles to say we had a hot big lunch and after walking arond he had to poop. so he went and did his thing before we hit the road home. about a mile or two down the road when the truck warmed up, i started smelling poo. i asked if hed wiped he said yea. well when he pulled down his hood it realy started stinkin. i told him to turn on the dome light and man i bout tossed my cookies. when he went he didnt pull his hood out from under his but and pooped right in it. so now everone at work calls him #### head.:D

[Caribou Dreamer2]

AHHH man thats not good,Was it a cold ride home:D