Deer Camp Report: Kings of Drummond Island

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from timmy2bears wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

This reminds me of camps I've been to in Northcentral PA and New York's Adirondacks. Wild places and true hunts. I love deer camp. I try to explain to people who don't hunt that it's a holiday, better than christmas.

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from Love2Hunt wrote 3 years 2 weeks ago

These secluded places are really neat and are always a great retreat to the outdoors. Always a fun time for sure.

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from VT Outdoorsman wrote 2 years 50 weeks ago

Great story. Its pretty cool to hear about the different traditions and rituals that happen at various deer camps around the country.

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from Ma Barker wrote 2 years 21 weeks ago

I've seen bigger horns on a "Chevy" !! Ah, you must be proud.

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from kdklaas wrote 2 years 11 weeks ago

My grandfather (passed in July at 99 years young) hunted Drummond Island during the 30's. I will always remeber the stories and his massive 240 pound (dressed) 12 point that is now in my dad's cabin in Skanee, Mi. Thanks for triggering some great memories!

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from kdklaas wrote 2 years 11 weeks ago

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from timmy2bears wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

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from Love2Hunt wrote 3 years 2 weeks ago

These secluded places are really neat and are always a great retreat to the outdoors. Always a fun time for sure.

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from VT Outdoorsman wrote 2 years 50 weeks ago

Great story. Its pretty cool to hear about the different traditions and rituals that happen at various deer camps around the country.

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from Ma Barker wrote 2 years 21 weeks ago

I've seen bigger horns on a "Chevy" !! Ah, you must be proud.

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Here's my favorite of the Drummond Island blinds. No neat name. No oddball carpentry. Just a stack of logs overlooking one of the gnarliest, darkest, buck-lookingest cedar swamps you can imagine. For 70 straight years-"except a couple of years when Mama was sick"-Don Franklin's dad spent days on end in this blind. It's now fallen down, the logs rotten and mossy. But just walking past, I could tell this was hallowed ground.

Seventy years of sunrises and antlers. This is the marrow of deer camp. A few years back, Don painted the red cross on the tree, to honor his dad.

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