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How many camp instead of paying for cabin or hotel.

LBL is pretty tough hunting but low bow pressure. Other public land in KY may be better worth your time

It’s similar to here to some of Mississippi I hunt. It’s just easier to see deer at LBL than here. Just haven’t found a shootable buck yet. See plenty of deer just not the right one.
 
It’s similar to here to some of Mississippi I hunt. It’s just easier to see deer at LBL than here. Just haven’t found a shootable buck yet. See plenty of deer just not the right one.
Right on, good luck to ya
 
I do both but usually tent camp. Spent three nights in the truck on a hunt last year when it never stopped raining long enough to make camp.
 
Tent/hammock. But sometimes it’s really cold so you find a garage to move in to

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That extension chord is running to a space heater
 
Next season will be my third at LBL. The first season we came we went to western Kentucky wma.
Good deal, I’ve been hunting it for about a decade. I live in Murray so if you’re up this way this fall let me know, would love to help you drag out a big ol deer!
 
Good deal, I’ve been hunting it for about a decade. I live in Murray so if you’re up this way this fall let me know, would love to help you drag out a big ol deer!
There is a group of us. Where putting in for a quota hunt this year. We have been doing bow only till this point.
 
I tent camp every time at my deer lease. We got a military surplus tent and a wood stove for a killer deal on Craigslist last season and had a blast with it. The deer camp camaraderie aspect of it is as much a part of the experience as the hunting for me. It feels like elk camp in the Rockies even though it’s just deer camp in the Ouachitas.
 
I tent camp every time at my deer lease. We got a military surplus tent and a wood stove for a killer deal on Craigslist last season and had a blast with it. The deer camp camaraderie aspect of it is as much a part of the experience as the hunting for me. It feels like elk camp in the Rockies even though it’s just deer camp in the Ouachitas.
Man we had a wet deer season
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I've done both. In Alabama, some state parks have discounts for hunters utilizing nearby WMA properties. Sometimes they're substantial enough to make it worth not having to do the tent thing.

But usually I'm tent or car camping if I travel. At some point I'd like a little RV, but that's down-the-road wishes.
 
Here is my DIY toy hauler. Routed a channel in the back of the trim and daisy chained outlets. Wired to a box with two different circuits both with 15A breakers. Both wired to two outside AC ports to bring power in. Generator only puts out 13A / channel before an internal breaker trips. I installed a small flat screen TV, DVR and most importantly can run a coffee maker. I researched everything from Murphy beds to drop down platforms, but air mattress seemed to make the most sense.
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Here is my DIY toy hauler. Routed a channel in the back of the trim and daisy chained outlets. Wired to a box with two different circuits both with 15A breakers. Both wired to two outside AC ports to bring power in. Generator only puts out 13A / channel before an internal breaker trips. I installed a small flat screen TV, DVR and most importantly can run a coffee maker. I researched everything from Murphy beds to drop down platforms, but air mattress seemed to make the most sense.
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Looks good. That a 6x12
 
I have done close to a dozen camp/hunting trips. A few backpacking, the rest truck camping. I get it. When I was 23 and money was tight there was not other way.

Being a little older and having some allowance, I can't even begin to understate how nice it is to take showers, eat real food, and dry my clothes and boots.

I still love camping. I can sleep on a bumpy rock in 10 degree weather. In fact I have. Camping is a butt ton of work though. The packing. The setting up. The constant maintenance. Breaking down. Drying out gear at home. To me all that detracts from the hunt. Anymore I'd rather dedicate 100% to the hunt and get a place.

Now economics 101, that's just the choice I am making right now because I can't have a baller "camper" setup. When I say camping I am talking tents. No tent, sorry, you ain't camping. Sleeping in a trailer you dumped $10 grand into is not camping, sorry, hope you enjoy your glamping. That conversion is somewhere in my budget future but my camping and hunting days are through.
 
I have hunted in Kansas and WV where sometimes there are no motels. We called a church camp and they invited us in to use their facilities. They even made us home made meals every night. Most church camps are closed in the fall and winter and they can use the money. We paid $17 a night for meals and a place to stay. As a group we donated some money and now get invited back every year.
 
I can sleep on a bumpy rock in 10 degree weather. In fact I have. Camping is a butt ton of work though. The packing. The setting up. The constant maintenance. Breaking down. Drying out gear at home. To me all that detracts from the hunt. Anymore I'd rather dedicate 100% to the hunt and get a place.

Now economics 101, that's just the choice I am making right now because I can't have a baller "camper" setup. When I say camping I am talking tents. No tent, sorry, you ain't camping. Sleeping in a trailer you dumped $10 grand into is not camping, sorry, hope you enjoy your glamping. That conversion is somewhere in my budget future but my camping and hunting days are through.[/QUOTE]

There are plenty of rocks to sleep on out there, however if anyone is entertaining making their own "Glamper" I did it for right at $2k.
 
So me and my oldest of 3 camped without paying this spring in my truck. I bought a truck bed air mattress. It is great paired with my cap on top. It is now the camp I never had! I just throw an ez up over my cap and we are good!
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I am surprised more folks aren’t doing this. I haven’t done it yet but I’m going to make a wood frame bed and drawer set up in the back of my pickup. There’s lots of good set ups on google and Pinterest just look up pickup cap camping. You can have a great set up.
 
I guess I have camped about every way you can over the years.I am a life long bowhunter and most years hunt almost every day of the deer and turkey season and make lots of trips elsewhere but now that the bowhunters assoc has purchased a campground for the hunters I have a cargo conversion that I'm working on,had it coustom built 7x16 slant vnose.
 

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