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Sleeping Bag Location?
« on: June 17, 2014, 07:40:41 PM »
Well, where will you be resting sore legs this fall? Luxurious base camp, minimalistic/perhaps mobile base camp, home base bedroom and driving to hunt spots, back country camp, tiny town motel, back of truck canopy? What's your elk camp gonna be like this year?
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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2014, 08:00:27 PM »
On a Cabela's deluxe XL Cot in a 12x12 Alaknak tent. In a nice spot deep in the Bethel unit. My bro pulled a muzzy cow tag for that unit and so the rest of us (Dad and I) will be spotting for him and huntin for spikes...

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2014, 08:11:22 PM »
Where ever I land is good . Tent trailer or back seat any place is good in elk country

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2014, 08:14:05 PM »
On a xl cot. With a wood stove in cook shack.
Big Buddy in tent
And a extra thick loft flannel bag.
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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2014, 08:46:19 PM »
Depends where I'm hunting, if it's remote then tent or cabin if available, sometimes the back of my truck.  Otherwise I like hotels, hot water, TV, power, cold beer, heated rooms, comfy beds,   :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2014, 08:53:32 PM »
Ill be in a alaknak, or in the back of my suburban most trips, maybe hanging from some trees in a hammock, or in my travel trailer ic I finish the remodel ever.

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2014, 09:15:28 PM »
On a xl cot. With a wood stove in cook shack.
Big Buddy in tent
And a extra thick loft flannel bag.
Ghosthunter, I think I recognize your camp...You guys have a deer camp with the same signage?

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2014, 11:29:30 PM »
Will be a mixture of a base camp and sleeping out under the stars

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2014, 11:50:49 PM »
I'm hunting 40 minutes from home. Plenty of adventure to be found on a tight schedule, with a warm bed and hot shower every day. Weekends and nights I got out 9 days for modern deer last year. And I slept like a baby.

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2014, 11:57:11 PM »
Interesting question.....I know 1 week will be in a bivy, the following week maybe out of a truck camp or out of a bivy again...then in October it will either be out of a canvas tent for two weeks with a random spike out trip....who knows...maybe another bivy trip in November  :dunno:

The one thing I do know is I wont be too far from some dandy bulls each an every night :tup:

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2014, 05:34:51 AM »
This is camp. 
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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2014, 06:02:42 AM »
RV, man. Hot showers, kitchen, no set up. Fires in the pit outside. Roughing it, totally!
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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2014, 06:29:06 AM »
On a xl cot. With a wood stove in cook shack.
Big Buddy in tent
And a extra thick loft flannel bag.
Ghosthunter, I think I recognize your camp...You guys have a deer camp with the same signage?

Hard to miss us. If the sign is out it is us. We confirgure our set up differently depending on number of folks in camp.
But where ever you see our logo that is a camp member.
Stop in and we will buy you a soda.
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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2014, 06:31:58 AM »
This is camp.

I like it. Is there a wood roof under the tarp?
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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2014, 06:58:06 AM »
Truck camper in the valley next to the river,   hoping to bivy a couple of nights also.

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2014, 07:05:42 AM »
I'm planning on a motel, hotel, back of truck, 12x16 wall tent and one man tent and a couple of day trips from home this season.  Busy.

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #16 on: June 18, 2014, 07:27:43 AM »
Backpack tent/wall tent/house/house/wall tent.
That'll be my plan.
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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #17 on: June 18, 2014, 07:32:03 AM »
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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #18 on: June 18, 2014, 10:12:05 AM »
It has changed over the years.  Roughly every year actually. One year was a 27' fifth wheel that only the stove worked. Next year was an enclosed cargo trailer that worked surprisingly well.  Next year was an old military style wall tent. Then an old 15' trailer with nothing but a stove. Now it's either with my buddy in his 17' travel trailer or this year with my old man and his 27' travel trailer.  We have definitely upgraded over the years.

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2014, 10:40:36 AM »
Probably in an area with some masher ticks and mosquitoes.
Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with too many facts.

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2014, 01:31:46 PM »
Two likely places.  First is my bed at home and then driving 25 minutes to some private property.  The other is a bed at my parent's place at the coast.  Definitely roughing it either way!

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2014, 01:47:28 PM »
Something like this.

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #22 on: June 18, 2014, 01:51:58 PM »
Historically, we've always hunted out of a wall tent, but this season we're going to start bivy hunting in our area... Hoping to cut some time traveling in and out of the absolute jungle that we hunt on the westside... This will also afford us the ability to go deeper and not worry about having enough time to make our way out before dark.







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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #23 on: June 18, 2014, 03:30:41 PM »
Mount Margaret Backcountry for me this year.  Usually its a wall tent base camp in the Siouxon for my posse.  I'm used to the deep dark woods, so the high country will be a bit of a change.

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Re: Sleeping Bag Location?
« Reply #24 on: June 18, 2014, 05:17:43 PM »
I change it up very year. My brother usually cancels on me last minute every year! If he actually makes it we'll be base camping in a small tent with day trips out the locked gates everyday. If/when he cancels and I'm solo yet another year, I usually just set my cot up in front of the gate I'm parked at under the stars and hit it in the morning. I may head up into a wilderness area for deer this year, probably a quick 3 day hunt with camp on my back and just plop down where ever I am once it gets dark.. I like those hunts better than the logging roads... The girl doesn't like my solo trips into the back country so I try and keep them short. Makes life much better at home that way! Couple months to go!! I can't wait!!!! COME ON SEPTEMBER!!!!

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« Reply #25 on: June 24, 2014, 10:13:05 PM »
Back country tent camp in the wilderness.

 


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