Originally Posted by
dustnchips
I dear hunt, kinda. I shot a nice eight point buck about 18-20 years ago and haven't shot since. Until I see a better buck I won't bother since I'm not nuts about the meat anyway. I love going out and sitting in the blind and watching nature. I see shootable deer every year, but let them go. I like it best when it is snowing and starting to turn white. I have a heated blind. I am out before daylight and back at dark. The whole hunting thing starts a bout two months before season. Going up to the camp and checking things out, moving blinds, cutting firewood ect. Up here a camp is anything from a tent to a house. The one I go to is an old log cabin but has indore plumbing and electricity. Satilite TV is great to. Things are changing this year as the cabin has become unrepairable. The owner is replacing it with a 12oo sq ft cottage with a full basement and loft. Lots of room and luxury. There was a lot of charm to the old camp though. I always find better places for a blind and then just keep going to the old one so I will probably never get the big buck. I'll be there every year though. No heavy drinkers in camp and we play cribbage and smear for fun not money. By eigh thirty we are usually in the bunks as we get up early and go outin the woods. A great time with great friends. I shoot, or don't shoot an Argintine Mauser, 7mm model 93 with a buris scope and timminy trigger.