Building a new Deer Camp
 

We are in the planning stages for building a new Deer Camp. It will be nothing to nice but just a camp. We will have about 3 adults and 3 teenagers staying most of the time. We are thinking a 16X16 building...Anyways what you not leave out if you were building one things like wood burning stoves, gun storage.....just wanted to get some ideas from people that may have built one and wished they would have added something after they built it.

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Porches, love the porches!!!!!! It provides a good place to take your muddy boot off!!!!!

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Oh yeah and a good place to knock a cold one back!!!!!!;)

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Deffinetly the porch.

We built a cabin a year ago and its only like 14' x 16' then we have a 6 foot porch, but it is still a great cabin.
We added in a sky light and lightens up the cabin ALOT.
heres some ideas for you....

(note: some time in the summer we are gonna be painting the white tin a greyish-brownish type color so it matches better.)

Outside


Inside


We have 5 windows.. theres windows on the north,east,south, and west side, and then the sky light.

We wished we had closed the floor boards closer together. If you went there and looked straight down you could see a little gap, a really tiny one. It lets alot of air in and it makes the floor real cold and it makes it a little cold inside. What you could do is lay the main floor down and then go under it and place ply wood under it, that will block most of the air movement.

http://huntingsphere.exofire.net/videos/vid3/video.php(a short video of my hole cabin, and the surroundings)

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Rifle rests in the windows?:D

Are you looking at buying a garage kit from a lumber yard or making a material list on your own?

I'vebuilt a kit garagein the past and it was awfuly handy to have all the materials precut and dumped off in one spot. I didn't pay for it though, just built it.

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http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2364699&mpage=1

i found this very helpful.

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Great looking little camp you have there Andrew. Very nice.;)

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We built our camp with a garage kit. The lumber company substituted windows and a door for the garage door. That was in 1976 and it worked out really well. We put a porch on it a few years after it was built. The porch is 12 x 8, we should have made it bigger. The cabin is 25 x 25.

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Heres mine. More at this link!

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2364699&mpage=1

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Consider going to a mobile home park and asking for a free trailer.
That's what 6 of us did a few years back and here's how it worked out...
The park gave us a mobile home, as long as we moved it ourselves, so my buddy made a hitch for his backhoe and we towed it a few miles down the road to our work spot (very early in the morning, to keep the local cops happy).
We gutted the inside and got some free t&g pine board, made 6 bunks, one big table and left the kitchen alone. We also painted the outside to blend into the surroundings better (baby blue didn't work for us guys).
Packed the wheel bearings, put some new tires on it, strapped the crap out of it (has peak roof) and called the local tow truck company to move it into the spot 80 miles away.
We had a total of $2,400 including the tow bill and a couple hundred man hours.
I had an old wood stove I donated and our outhouse was already there from our old camp.
Wa-la, instant camp, just add water.

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another pic

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Disregard the yo-yo above bashing the Tundras

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Thanks for the ideas and pics keep'em coming......we just about have all our material together...we are starting on it next month when it gets really hot down here!!!

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thank you very much. :D

me and my family are very proud of what we have done to that cabin over the past year.

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When do you want me out there?:D:D:D:D:D:D

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My camp. Been there 11 years, and hasn't changed a bit.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l16/texas8point/camper.jpg

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Look at all the hillbillies ma! :D:D:D

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This is my buddy's garage we stay at during deer season. There is 4-5 of us out in the garage and 3-4 in the house the first Illinois season. Nice and warm, there is a shower in the house and Dish TV. All the comforts of home.

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Here's mine

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If you can manage it, and it does not get so cold that the gas pressure drops so low that the gas will not flow, I'd suggest that you go with a propane heater and cook top. We can not get delivery where we are. So, we bought bought 3 - 25 gallon tanks. Filled off site they are pretty tough to handle weight wise, but are not unmanageable. We usually go through 100 - 125 gallons each season. That is now about $400 !!! But it beats the heck out of having to fool with cutting, splitting and hauling wood enough for a 3 1/2 month deer season. For a decently insulated 16' x 16' building a "3 brick" catalytic heater will suffice. A 2-eye cook top is about $100 and a small heater about $125 or so. Plumbing is simple and easy.

We ran a gutter down both eaves and catch run off in 6-55 gallon plastic drums. Excellent source for bathing water.

Smoke / carbon monoxide detection system. A great $30 insurance policy !!

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A woodshed. Mine is big enough to use for hanging up hunting clothes

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That is a great looking camp......I am just wondering hou many people have camps,tent camp, and travel back and forth. The price of gas is one of the reasons we want a place to stay it is only about 45min away for most of us but we can pay for the camp with gas we save going back and forth.


Wish we had a camp like that!!! The log cabin looks great