Deer Camp is a family tradition for us. It consists of my Dad, his 3 brothers, myself, and now my wife(she hunts too). Deer Camp is usually one week out of early-muzzleloader season in VA. We camp just outside of Lynchburg, VA in Amherst County. It used to be all of "the brothers" (my dad and his bros) would pull up their trucks and either put up their tents or just sleep in the back of the truck. As the years have gone by, we now pull up our campers and my dad even has a small utility-shed-turned-cabin on the property that he and my little brother (forgot about him) sleep in. Our family is big on tradition. My grandfather used to pull up his camper just to hang out for the week. When we'd come back to camp after a morning hunt, you could bet that Grampa would be sitting at his picnic table with a rifle leaning against his camper waiting for any unsuspecting deer that would walk by (the brothers had bought him a lifetime hunting license years back). After he passed away, we are sure to always hang his hat on "the tree" in the middle of camp along with a horseshoe. We'd always rub the shoe for an extra measure of luck and still do now. Honestly, we're not really big on pranks at this point, but after this, maybe we will be;) One camp rule that we have, and take serious, is to eat well. We follow this to the "t". Meals are almost always hot and everyone takes a turn in cooking. We don't skimp on meals either. This naturally leads to the discussion of what our favorite meal is. This is hard to decide. Things like meatloaf, hot breakfast meals, homemade chicken BBQ, complete dutch oven meals are all in the competition. It's (at this point) a toss up. Our family has Swedish roots (remember, we're big on tradition) so we will have a Swedish potato sausage (we call it potato blogna). It tastes good, but looks like something you'd rather not bite into. This meal is tied with Golden Hominy Scramble. Enough said on that, I'm getting hungry just thinking about it! Family is important to us so the time we spend together around the fire telling stories of camping, hunting and fishing trips past and the new memories that we create every year we continue this tradition that we call Deer Camp. That's our story. Pictures will be submitted soon.