Elk Camp 2010

[bucksnort]

Can't go huntin' without the cribbage board!

[ICEMAN]

5 gallon bucket 1/4 full with water and a little peanut butter smeared on the inside works better than those sping type mouse traps dont have to keep resetting it all the time

Yeah, I have made a few perpetual mouse killers over the years and find them really handy at deer and elk camp.

Link here to the one I made... http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,17938.0.html

[rasbo]

baby wipes for that fresh feeling

Unscented of course.

yeah whats with the scented stuff,youre just gonn F&%k it all up

[Fletch]

I also throw in a ladder.  Has helped get tarp over tent, Hang meat, used as a drying rack etc...

[buckhorn2]

Might as well throw in the kitchen sink.

[520backyard]

baby wipes for that fresh feeling

Unscented of course.

yeah whats with the scented stuff,youre just gonn F&%k it all up

Thats not the point. The point is you wipe all that scent all over your ass and then drag it with you for every animal in range to detect and react too. Crosswinds and variable winds will screw you, if you don't maintain scent control.

[runamuk]

ok mind you I dont wear perfume and stuff to go hunting but I also do not run out and buy scent killer stuff.... I smell like a person not a whole lot can change that..... short of rolling in horse crap and taking a horse with me so that it smells more like horse less like person ....I still have to watch wind regardless of what I am wearing or not wearing.
 I will shut up though because my thoughts are pretty obviously useless seeing as I have never killed anything...

horse back riding I have gotten very close to all sorts of game  not once thinking about the wind at all...seems horses are not real threatening even when they have a human on their back.....

[engelwood]

Might as well throw in the kitchen sink.

HAHA, no roads, kinda hard to get that to camp!!!

[NRA4LIFE]

This is comfy.

[Antlerking]

If you are lucky enough to get an elk back 2 camp whole, We always bring the 18v cordless dewalt sawsall, it makes quick work with splitting in half and getting it wrapped up on the meat pole.

[Deer slayer]

Anyone want to throw out some ideas for pack in camps?  When I say pack in I mean no horses and in a wilderness.

[hunterofelk]

For a back pack hunt there are light weight wall tents.  A hunting buddy has a 12x16 that weighs only 25 lbs!  Also, a titanium stove.  For a camp site four miles in we carried our back packs and also pulled a cabela's sled with some gear in it.  Of course this was late season Montana and there was snow on the trail.  The next day we made another trip.  I did a couple of these hunts and got burnout.  All that packing and pulling wore me out so I couldn't hunt very hard for a couple of days.  As luck would have it the days I took it easy turned out to be the days we had the most elk in the area.  Other hunts with back packs included carrying collapsible water jugs for our water which we got from a spring on the north side of the ridge.  We had three jugs and two leaked.  We filled the jugs at the spring and carried the water up the ridge to our camp on the top.  We got to camp soaking wet.  At least the load got lighter as we walked!  Those back pack trips are for the people who don't mind carrying loads almost every other day. 

Here is a picture of my buddy's other light weight tent.  I think it is made by Bravo.



This is me and my load on a Washington back pack hunt.



The titanium stove.

[bowhuntersd]

Yeah, I was thinking about getting one or two of those (they come in a 4 gallon container at Wholesale Sports), but my buddy that is going with me told me to save the $$ and use milk jugs.  I think I'm going to get at least one of those.

Also, I'm thinking about fashioning a toilet seat to a 5 gallon bucket that we can put garbage sacks in for the dirty deuce so we can cut down on smell, etc.   

I like your idea of the toilet seat but deffinately get the water containers. I have 2 of them and can pack them with me to spike camp and with my water filter fill them up and I'll have 8 gallon s of water for less space than 1 milk jug.

[carpsniperg2]

yep all the stuff he will be taking in will be by back/mountian bike. kinda hard to throw the genny over the shoulder

[coachcw]

extra large garbage bags , they have many uses , rain gear , water storage ex. I ussually take a extra tent and store all my archery gear and hunting clothes in there , I can slip out in the dark and get ready without waking sleeping beauty.