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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 31 Aug 2025 09:30am
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You all use your cabins to base out of for hunting season ? Or memories that those ol places that still pull out a smile n and a happy thought.
They can sure provide a lot of great memories. Even if you don't hunt, it still feels great to get out, cabin time
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frankpaige
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# Posted: 31 Aug 2025 12:49pm
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Quit hunting 55 years ago. But still love punching holes in paper and plinking cans. But enjoy the hunting camp atmosphere. Male only and co-ed camps. From Everglades to Colorado.
Your right. Memories made as a youth still bring happiness today. Now, it my turn to help make memories for the younger generation.
Cabin Time!
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 31 Aug 2025 02:43pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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We quit meat hunting long ago and were never into 'trophy hunting', then my wife Joyce took up video hunting with the big old vhs recorders. WOW, she got fantastic buck white-tails in the thick far back that we never would have seen because we we were used to taking the (often) 4 to 6 pointers who came out first.
I didn't miss the going out before dawn to slink into my stand (really a sit & wait), especially when it was cold and/or drizzly. Sleep in, casual breakfast by the woodstove....yeah, good off-grid cabin life. She'd come wandering in late morning to have some food and plan when & where to go to next. Id often go out too just to sit & see.
Many folks use the hunting seasons as their 'reason' to go to the woods, with a cabin we dont need a reason, we go whenever, its good therapy for the soul.
I grew up on a sand county sc Wisconsin farm running the fields and forests as my fantasy 'frontier' Ala Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, read Walden and A Sand County Almanac in high school (both still with me) and handbuilt my 1st off-grid cabin at age 30 in 1983-84 by recycling the farm's 1897 barn. It was one of the best things Ive ever done and I think an expression of a deeper me. At least I feel like it is a deeper me when there. Fortunately my wife of 46yrs is of similar stock, we pasture well there.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 31 Aug 2025 08:07pm
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I hunt at my cabin..does that make it a hunting camp? For a few years now the only time I have pulled the trigger was with a buck in front of my scope. No sight in and no practice. I have been prety sucessful. Even helped a good friend get his first deer in almost 30yrs.
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Grizzlyman
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# Posted: 1 Sep 2025 05:22pm
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Hunt grouse at ours. Just put up a tree stand this year and am going to give deer hunting a go though it may be a little iffy with a water access cabin if we get an early freeze in MN
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hct4all
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# Posted: 11 Nov 2025 09:39pm
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I use mine 9 months out of the year. Heaviest use during hunting season. Love it
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 11 Nov 2025 09:48pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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Our WI 10day gun deer season starts soon, rut is on and we have a Nice 10pt coming to the 'lick' up the meadow just after sunset now. Before the season opening the bucks will only come out of the thick at night. All these decades of having our deer season I think they have developed a genetic memory of when it is!
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 12 Nov 2025 08:03am
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I grew up chasing tail in WI too. Yeppers guess a fellow could call them recreation cabins. Really fun recreating with my beautiful wife out at the cabin for a few weeks
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 12 Nov 2025 09:02am
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Im a lifelong Wisconsinite (I dont go for the cheesehead thing), traveled and visited across the country, and a North Shore Loop mc trip in Canada, some trips taking months, but always kept home here. Some of those trips were 'maybe I'll live somewhere else'.....never happened.
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Fanman
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# Posted: 12 Nov 2025 07:24pm
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Our cabin is in a state park (weird lease deal) where no hunting is allowed. That said, due to severe deer overpopulation, they're opening a limited hunting season this year in several zones in the park for the first time in 60 years. The nearest zone is about a half mile from our cabin. I thought about applying for a permit, but an out of state license is quite expensive and I haven't hunted in years anyway.
The deer wandering through the neighborhood are incredibly tame this year; I routinely get within 5 feet of them when walking on the trails and they pay me no mind. The last time I remember them being this tame was the summer before the last hunting season when I was a kid.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 13 Nov 2025 10:21pm
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I would say hunting is a part of the cabin experience.
Here's a few pics from earlier this afternoon/evening.
9 point
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Daisy helping with the cleanup
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Deer in the headlights
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FishHog
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# Posted: 14 Nov 2025 10:20am
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Good stuff darz, congrats and a nice buck
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 14 Nov 2025 10:37am
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Tenderloins for supper?
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darz5150
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# Posted: 14 Nov 2025 11:42am
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Quoting: gcrank1 Tenderloins for supper?
For sure.
Gonna bone and cube a lot of it. Then freeze.
There's a guy up the road that makes pretty good sausage and hot sticks.
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JBLondon
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# Posted: 18 Nov 2025 08:03pm
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In theory mine is a hunt camp. Sadly no venison in the freezer this year. We enjoyed some success to have a meal of grouse and duck in October. Generally the ratio of camp time to hunting time is very high!
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