Shrew Haven get's an addition

[todd smith]

Now THAT'S a bear dog!!                 todd

[Corvus]

Very, very cool! Looks like you have some very good friends to.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

When I found Tim that night he was coverd in blood...he laughed and said "Ever try and gut a deer with one leg in a cast?"

I was pretty darned happy to drag his deer that night.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

I love this picture because of the story behind it. Tim had hit a doe out of the Trestle stand, and it had gone straight down to Armstrong Creek. It took us a while to sort out the bloodtrail because it was mostly chest high swamp grass. Once we found her, it was the biggest doe I had ever seen. We made the spectacularly brave choice of dragging her STRAIGHT up the bank/hill towards the road. It was slick, and it was straight up and down. We laugh about it now, but we were seriously checking each other out on the way up...waiting for one or the other to have a heart attack. Tim's foot still wasn't right, and Greg and I are known cheese addicts. We are smilingin this picture because we were glad we survived!!

[Ron LaClair]

Great picture Roger but you should have told everyone that those suspicious looking bottles on the shelf in the background were just pancake syrup and cooking oil....   :rolleyes:

[Bonebuster]

God bless Shrew Haven...and every other place like it!

Never been there, but I have been in the western U.P. during early November.

ANYTHING is normal!...ANYTHING!

It can be seventy degrees, or snowing so hard you are scared to go to sleep.

You gotta live it...you just gotta live it.

God Bless Shrew Haven!!!

[**DONOTDELETE**]

That shelf is too high for me to reach anyway....  :p

[Ron LaClair]

I remember the huge doe that Tim shot and the long pull up the hill that just about did you guys in. Tim went to bed early that night if I remember right.And Greg who always likes to read before he goes to sleep, conked out and left his reading light on. Someone probably turned it off for him but I can't remember who...  

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

....and then SOMEONE cut the tenderloins out of Tim's doe...."big as my forearm!!" I think he said...  

[pete p]

good pics Ron! man those pics of armstrong creek and shrew haven exemplify the mistque and heritage of a north woods deer camp at its finest.  some of those pics make me hungry and tired....you will never eat better or sleep more sound than you will at deer camp.

[Ray Lyon]

Wow, such nice wood work on those bunks.    I'll bet it's the only deer camp with eight inch wide pine boards trimming out the bunks! Those cabins built in the CCC days of the thirties were put together well. We took apart one of the partition walls to make make room for the kitchen and the two closets in the existing "bedrooms". We had a lot of lumber to use for projects that would cost you an arm and a leg now (or several Super Shrew Bows).

[Ron LaClair]

Hunting in the north country in November you never know what the weather will do. It can turn from a beautiful fall day to winter in a matter of hours. Such was the case the day I killed the "Snowstorm buck". I had been sitting over a good scrap for several days with no luck. A sunny afternoon suddenly got dark and snowflakes as big as marbles started to fall. The ground was fast turning white and visibility wasn't more than 50yd's.

I saw the antlers coming out of the white wall of snow. He started to circle downwind of the scrap. After sitting for several hours it only took a  minute from the time I saw the buck until I took the shot. He ran down the hill, across the Armstrong and into the big cedar swamp. I had to track him fast before the snow covered the blood trail. Once he reached the cover of the swamp he turned south towards the Brule river and Wisconsin. He went down about 50yd's short on the river and I found him after dark. I dressed him out and pulled down a sapling and tied his rack to it with my bow string....propped him up the best I could and headed for camp.

The following morning we had 18" of fresh snow. It took some doing but with the help of a fellow bowhunter who had a camp in the next section we located the buck. I knew about where he would be but with so much snow it was hard to find him. We spotted the antlers sticking up out of the snow, if I hadn't propped him up we probably wouldn't have found him until the spring thaw.    

 

Coming up the Armstrong.

 

[jcar315]

Quick thinking for sure using the bow string to tie the antlers with. Really like the bow too.

[NW Jamie]

Ron,
Thanks for sharing the stories and pictures, as always they are great.

[DennyK]

So when's the book coming out? No I'm not kidding.  

[Rick Butler]

I'm thinking a Shrew Haven Video would be a big seller here!

[Horner]

Originally posted by DennyK:
So when's the book coming out? No I'm not kidding.    

X2      

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Ron could have a heck of a good book with just his pictures.

[rushlush]

Keep it coming!

[ERIC2 at shrewhvn]

As one of the new members at shrew haven . i can say that it takes alot of hard work and ability and a good ear to listen to all of the good stories of the past . i am very greatfull for the opertunity.


Roger whats the story behind the sledgehammer?

                                   Eric2