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Tell me about your Deer Camp?
Posted on 9/30/25 at 12:25 pm
Posted on 9/30/25 at 12:25 pm
I’m in a transition from camp in Arkansas after 15 years to Camp in St Francisville. From 10 people to 4.
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Posted on 9/30/25 at 12:40 pm to SenseiBuddy
Our camp is a place where my mom’s cousins family grew up a century or so ago. It’s an old house place that my uncle and family worked on to get it back in shape. My mom’s cousin doesn’t charge us as long as we keep up the place and land. Believe she owns around 150 acres that borders the lease we actually pay for.
Growing up, come supper time on the day before opener and the night of, I bet you there was 60 people that would show up to eat. Nowadays, since a lot of folks have either passed or gotten too old to come down, there is only around 10 of us that hunt. During the week, it’s really only my dad, my cousins wife and other guy that’s a friend of the family.
Growing up, come supper time on the day before opener and the night of, I bet you there was 60 people that would show up to eat. Nowadays, since a lot of folks have either passed or gotten too old to come down, there is only around 10 of us that hunt. During the week, it’s really only my dad, my cousins wife and other guy that’s a friend of the family.
This post was edited on 9/30/25 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 9/30/25 at 12:42 pm to SenseiBuddy
Started as a RV, built a "living room" attached to the RV, added a porch, then added a bathroom, then closed in the porch and made that a room, then removed the RV, added another porch, eventually enclosed the porch and made that a bedroom, added another porch. . . and perpetuated the cycle a few more times. It's a rigged up little house but it's a roof, kitchen, bathroom, a couple of bedrooms and allows us to hunt and fish on Toledo Bend every year. There's no other place that I prefer to spend my vacation time.
We actually had some settling issues out there so we spent a bunch of time digging trenches under the "house" and jammed I Beams under the house, jacked the whole house up and placed the I Beams on railroad ties, and pushed the house about 40' back to get it onto level ground. Lots of beer was consumed and we may have accidentally dropped the house off the railroad tie at one point. Somehow the "house" didn't fall over.
We actually had some settling issues out there so we spent a bunch of time digging trenches under the "house" and jammed I Beams under the house, jacked the whole house up and placed the I Beams on railroad ties, and pushed the house about 40' back to get it onto level ground. Lots of beer was consumed and we may have accidentally dropped the house off the railroad tie at one point. Somehow the "house" didn't fall over.
Posted on 9/30/25 at 1:05 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
I have a small camp on Toledo Bend near Negreet! Great memories!
Posted on 9/30/25 at 2:14 pm to SenseiBuddy
2 double wides and a 16x32 bunkhouse we just built this year
20 guys, mix of friends and family, no drama, just good times, good food, and dead deer
~ 2,600 acres
20 guys, mix of friends and family, no drama, just good times, good food, and dead deer
~ 2,600 acres
Posted on 9/30/25 at 2:24 pm to redneck
Most excellent!
Posted on 9/30/25 at 2:24 pm to WhuckFistle
Those pics should be a canvas somewhere. That snow pic!
Posted on 9/30/25 at 2:48 pm to SenseiBuddy
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I have a small camp on Toledo Bend near Negreet! Great memories!
My grandparents had one between Shadows and Negreet Creek when I was a kid. They left it to my oldest cousin in their will and the rest of us got a little money. He lived there as a single man working offshore. I used to hang out with my cousin to fish and duck hunt all the time in the 90's and early 2000's.
He sold it to move his wife and daughter closer to town/better schools and didn't tell anyone in the family. I would have bought it from him if I knew.
I own my own timber property now that I deer hunt most weekends. My buddy and I built my camp in a couple of days. It's a 12'x16' pier and beam structure. I have a bunk bed, recliner, dinner table, Coleman lanterns, Mr. Buddy heater and a double burner fryer to cook on. No power. It's rough, but way better than the tent I used to use.
No better feeling than pulling in Friday night for a weekend hunt, cracking a beer and tuning into the local high school football game on the radio.
This post was edited on 9/30/25 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 9/30/25 at 2:51 pm to SenseiBuddy
I have 160 acres with a creek cutting across it. It is just close family and a buddy I've know since school hunting there. Put up a barn shell and we are slowly building out half of the inside. It has a functional bathroom & kitchen, a living area (2nd hand lazy boys and sleeper sofa; antenna TV), 2 mostly walled bedrooms and a framed out loft over them. It also has 20K btu window unit AC/Heat, a garage, front porch, grillin porch, a gun cabinet and a shelf for whiskey n glasses. This month I built an atv bridge over the creek so we could access the 40 acres on the other side and built a stairway to the 'loft'.
It ain't a 'barndominium' yet; still a messy work in progress. But plenty good enough to be a camp.
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It ain't a 'barndominium' yet; still a messy work in progress. But plenty good enough to be a camp.
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Posted on 9/30/25 at 3:13 pm to Clyde Tipton
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It's a 12'x16' pier and beam structure.
I've thought about doing the same but haven't gotten around to it yet. Do you have any pictures of the outside? And, do you have trouble keeping rats and mice out?
Right now I sleep in an old truck camper on blocks that has been on our place since the 80's. It's old, but doesn't leak, and has never had a rodent in it. We have an old Avion (rounded metal like an Air Stream) out there that we have never been able to keep the mice out, so nobody wants to sleep in it.
Most of the time it's just me and the dog anyway.
We do have a lean to to get out of the rain and catch rainwater to wash things off with.
This post was edited on 9/30/25 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 9/30/25 at 3:42 pm to REB BEER
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Do you have any pictures of the outside?
I don't. It's just wrapped in regular sheet metal you can buy at lowes.
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do you have trouble keeping rats and mice out?
I never leave food or bags of corn in there and have never had a problem.
Posted on 9/30/25 at 4:08 pm to Clyde Tipton
Thanks, I'm just trying to get some ideas of how to throw something together.
Posted on 9/30/25 at 4:26 pm to REB BEER
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Thanks, I'm just trying to get some ideas of how to throw something together.
Dang. I had the original draft I did of the design, then step by step pictures of us building it from the floor up on my old phone.
Basically it sits on 9 concrete blocks that accept a 4"x4" in the top. Because doing it that way we were able to level the floor even though the ground wasn't level. (If that makes sense)
2'x10's on 18" centers for the floor supports, then we saved a little money by doing the walls with 2"x4" on 24" centers instead of 18" centers.
After the walls were up we ran 14' 2'x6" across the 12' span for the roof. Put on the metal roof, walled it in with OSB and protected the outside walls with the sheet metal I posted above.
I've had intentions of insulating it and finishing the inside walls since we built it, but honestly unless it gets below 20-25 degrees it isn't bad with a heater running in there.
This post was edited on 9/30/25 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 9/30/25 at 4:37 pm to Clyde Tipton
Thanks man. That helps alot. I remember seeing the pics in a thread years ago and thought about it then. But I'm getting a little more serious now.
Posted on 9/30/25 at 4:57 pm to SenseiBuddy
26' travel trailer leveled and on concrete runners. Built a cover for it and have an 6 foot wide porch nearly as long as the camper. We have a club camp but it has no bunks in it yet. Handful of other campers and morgan buldings. Pretty nice setup!
Posted on 9/30/25 at 5:31 pm to SenseiBuddy
Old 30x8 office trailer with added on addition of about 10x30. On family land in Woodville. Not for the weak. Have the occasional critter or two. We’ve been in it for about 30 years. All the comfort of home, wood heater, plumbing, electricity, satellite TV. Not the cleanest camp but it keeps the wives away lol!
Posted on 9/30/25 at 7:04 pm to dat yat
Sir that is kick arse. Bravo!
Posted on 9/30/25 at 7:06 pm to lsushelly
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keeps the wives away lol!
LOL
Posted on 9/30/25 at 9:12 pm to SenseiBuddy
We are a bunch of mostly old guys that can’t see, or hear or shake too much to shoot on around 600 acres that just are glad to be alive and enjoy time in the woods with nature
Posted on 10/1/25 at 4:43 am to lsushelly
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Not the cleanest camp but it keeps the wives away lol!
I was in one for a few years that was an absolute wreck. Just south of Natchez. At first my wife would treat me like Id been on vacation when I came home. I brought her by the camp on our way to dinner and after she saw it she treated me like I'd been away at war or some sh*t.
I got out of it last year. It had gotten so bad that I was pitching a tent in the yard and just going inside for the shower/shitter. The other members were absolute slobs. I dont mind old/dilapidated but you shouldn't have trash from the 90s in every corner.
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