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Offline engelwood

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Elk Camp 2010
« on: August 04, 2010, 01:34:03 PM »
Alright guys, so there are the obvious items that everyone needs to take to elk camp ie. tent, stove, etc. etc. What I'm wondering as I am making my list of items to bring and gathering items in my garage to make sure I remember is what is something that you have figured out over the years to bring that makes camp a little nicer? I'm looking for easy solutions for everyday elk camping problems. Pics would be great, but just ideas will work as well. As an example, there was an earlier post about elk bags and the idea of taking cheap goodwill sheets, cut up and sewed into bags are great and cheap for packing quarters. Anything you can put up would be appreciated.

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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2010, 01:37:15 PM »
2 ply TP   :chuckle:
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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2010, 01:47:18 PM »
Coffee can w/ lid to keep the mice out of your TP

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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2010, 01:56:36 PM »
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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2010, 01:56:56 PM »
Pillows

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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2010, 01:58:56 PM »
If you can, bring a little piece of carpet a few feet wide and about 2-3 feet long. We use it outside our tent as a doormat and it works nice when you are coming in and out of your tent as a place to take your boots off, put your boots on etc.
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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2010, 02:05:35 PM »
Mouse traps. I cannot sleep when I hear the mice running across the floor of tent. Dad cant hear so it does not bother him.
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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2010, 02:05:50 PM »
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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2010, 02:08:29 PM »
baby wipes for that fresh feeling

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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2010, 02:15:19 PM »
Nice work guys, keep em' comin!

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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2010, 02:44:47 PM »
I like 2 PLY TP, that way you can use both sides.

Seriously though, I like having a handy water dispenser that you you don't have to wrestle with to open the spigot.  Something more like a faucet.
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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2010, 03:03:12 PM »
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.  :chuckle: :chuckle: 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.  ;) 

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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2010, 03:07:45 PM »
a cheap couch  :chuckle:  naw i put 6mil black poly plastic over my tent that way bout noon time i eat and take a lil nap. be nice and dark. easyer to sleep

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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2010, 03:13:43 PM »
Sounds like that would make your tent a little hot eh?  :dunno:

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Re: Elk Camp 2010
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2010, 03:15:37 PM »
Mouse traps. I cannot sleep when I hear the mice running across the floor of tent. Dad cant hear so it does not bother him.

We call our hunting trailer Mouseschwitz.  One year, we managed to get a bunch mice inside the trailer, but didn't know it until one ran across my buddys arm in the middle of the night.  Then we heard them running across the kitchen counter and stove top, in the dark.  They got under the stove top, and would pop out of the burners.  My brother-in-law got the smart idea to cover the stove top with tinfoil, and turn the gas on for a few seconds, trapping the gas underneath the tinfoil.  He thought that he could then light the gas under the tinfoil and that it would either gas the mice, or burn them up.  Not his best idea!  Created a pretty blue flame, about the size of a small pillow.  

The hunting had sucked, as it was in the 80's during archery season for elk, and the mice were the last straw.  We ended up packing up and going home and cleaning out the trailer.  Cleanest that things ever been.  We now have a great supply of traps in it.
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