Hunting Shacks/Cabins that is!
How about posting pics of where you hunt from;
be it a fly camp, a wall tent, timber cabin or hunting lodge!

Below is the cabin on our ground, seven hours from home. Very basic, but it has 4 bunks, a wood burner, gas cooker, 12V lights and a bottle of scotch or two! Since the picture has been taken we have added another window and a few other home improvements! When the snow is falling and the wind blowing a gale, it is sometimes hard to leave that woodburner!

Man it looks like a Grand Hotel to me. I have spent allot of time in the Colorado Rockies in nothing more than a wall tent with a wood stove. What a great Hunting Camp real walls and everything.

[ 10-17-2002, 23:18: Message edited by: Handloader ]

Handloader,

Looks like we hunt with the wrong crowd! Now this is what I call a hunting lodge! Oh for a win on the lottery!





"Lying in the heart of the Highlands, Glen Affric is an exceptionally beautiful wilderness of jagged mountains, narrow glens and steep corries. Cloaking the lower slopes of the glen is one of the finest remaining areas of Caledonian Pine Forest, which provides excellent shelter for the deer in winter.
Extending over some 10,000 acres, this is a famous deer forest and the lodge, which appears to be perched on an islet at the eastern end of Loch Affric, enjoys stunning views westward to the Five Sisters of Kintail.
Affric Lodge is rightfully regarded as one of the finest in Scotland. It provides exceptional accommodation for up to 12 people, and is furnished to a very high standard."

[ 10-17-2002, 23:53: Message edited by: Pete E ]

jeez, and I thought I was going upscale with a trailer. - Dan

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 470 Mbogo:
[QB]Hi Pete,
This is my getaway. It's boat access only twice actually. First I have to take my boat 22 miloes up the Inlet that I live on then my old beater truck from the head of the Inlet 13 kilometers to the head of Clowhom Lake then my 14 ft. tin boat another 1/2 mile up the river. The fishing and hunting is very good. Blacktail deer and black bears are the two most abundant animals. But there are mountain goats,cougar and the Elk are starting to move into the area. They were brought to Sechelt from Vancouver Island and they have been move to different areas from Sechelt as the populations have increase and the divits in the golf courses multiplied.
This is the cabin


This is the view from the porch your looking at.


470 Mbogo

470 Mbogo,

That is a very beautiful part of the world and a set up any hunter would kill for!

Did you build the cabin yourself??? Does it have power, water ect?

Regards,

Pete

[ 10-18-2002, 18:25: Message edited by: Pete E ]

470,
You poor thing.I'll do you a favor and trade you my old Eureka 4 Man Tent for it,straight up.Heck I'll even kick in the rain fly!!

I am upgrading (hopefully) next season to a cab-over camper on my half-pickup trailer to pull up to camp.Might be a bit tight with two big boys in it,but it can't be any tighter than that 4 man tent.

Last years caribou spike camp:
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/caribouhunter/spikecam.jpg
Be it ever so humble...
Jeff

Jeff, hope you don't mind me posting the pic in here....where was the camp??? Did you get anything??

[ 10-18-2002, 18:24: Message edited by: Pete E ]

West of Iliamna AK.Yes I killed a bull.Not big
but ok
Jeff

Hi Pete E,
I didn't build the cabin but have just about re-built half of it. The front section was built in the early 50's and then when they took some of the bunk houses out from the logging camp a section was barged up the lake. They then skidded and winched the bunk house section into place and tied the two together. I first found it while on a black bear hunt. We canoed up the river to locate a bear and saw the cabin. The next year we went back to the same area but this time we stopped in to look at the cabin and it was in a mess. Everyone that used it packed stuff in but they never took anything out. I got hold of the owner and asked if he was interested in selling it as it was getting run down quickly. That part is a whole other story. Anyhow I ended up with the cabin and have spent some of the best times there with good friends. By the way my buddy and I built a detachable shooting bench for the front porch and there are stumps of all ranges within shooting distance.

470 Mbogo

470

Alas, I hate to bring lite to the obvious fault of your hunting camp but it is missing one crucial and most important item . ME.....

I, on the other hand, am willing to sacrifice my time and help you correct that oversite. Just out of the goodness of my heart and in the spirit of helping my fellow man.

What a great spot.

Jim B.

470

Your place is just outstanding with that view. I hope the game comes close because i would have a problem to leave that place even to go hunting!

cchunter,
The game comes by real close. The area is behind a hydro dam so the water level changes leaving the area across from the cabin as a big grass flat with a good creek running through it. It is usually exposed during the Spring and the bears use it quite a bit. In the fall the deer use the timber area and the grass flat quite a bit also. I was splitting fir wood for the winter when I looked across and saw a beauty of a 4 point chaseing a doe around. I slipped the boat into the river and crossed to get fouled by a 2 point buck that I didn't see that ran off taking the big buck and the doe with it. I went back to splitting wood and within an hour they were back out so on the repeat visit I managed to fill the freezer. Three times while out fly fishing I've had Black Bears jump in and swim across the river within 70 yards. The bears also have a well worn trail that goes by the cabin to another grassy area within 50 yards of the cabin. I'll scan in a couple more photos if you would like to see a little more of the area.
Take good care,
470 Mbogo

Nothin' fancy, but I've used it throughout the western states.

470,

To be honest it realy looks like you found your own paradise and what your telling us sounds to good to be true. I would be very glad to see some more photos from the area.

I don't actually hunt from here very often anymore, but my father, brother and I built this cabin in the mid-80's on some property we own in some excellent moose, elk and deer country.



My father has since moved to that property and has built a log home a short distance away from the cabin. He has turned the property into a bison ranch. Sometimes I wish I didn't live quite so far away now...I miss that place.

Canuck

Gilamonster,
Looks like a great camp are you in a winter area with lots of sheds or have you been really successful. The wall tent is our camp for Northern B.C. also and it's a great way to go. Thanks for the link from your post. Very interesting site.

cchunter,
I've been done by my computer again. Just upgraded to Windows XP and my scanner isn't compatible. Go figure.

470 Mbogo

470 Mbogo

Sorry to hear abot the scanner, I realy looked forward to see some more pictures.

By the way have you looked at the Scanner manufactur homepage after drivers for XP or maybe some extra program. I had the same problem when i upgraded to XP and found a file that fixed it at Canons homepage.

If I email pics to someone can they please post them for me? gabe

Biff

No problem at all, send them to me and I will put them up for you and have them there for at least a month.

cchunter@at-home.nu

[ 10-21-2002, 16:29: Message edited by: cchunter ]

cchunter, you have mail

Posting pictures from Biff (Gabe)





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Looks nice Gabe, tell us about it!

CChunter, thanks for posting the pic, it is just your standard run of the mill tipee (teepee depending on who you talk to) You know like every one has laying around My uncle picked up one year on a lark, and it kinda seems fitting to use, we put it up Sometime in October usually and hunt out of it until Deer season is over. The year these pics were taken it got down below 15 degrees at night and that was about as cold as we want to go sleeping on the ground!!! we are eventually gonna swithc to a wall tent for portability and heating reasons. We have had a fire in this one and it isn't like the movies show at all go figure, you can only have a very small fire and then someone has to get up through most of the night to feed it, the smoke flaps do work and you get no smoke inside as long as you pay attention to the wind. All in all it is a pretty fun way to do it but set up and tear down is a pretty long process!!! gabe