Originally posted by KentuckyTJ:
I enjoyed watching that Ray, thanks for posting. I almost always hunt alone, but as I age I would really like to have a place like that to go each year and to be able to spend time with friends. Ron is a true gem in our world that's for sure. Good stuff!
As Tim and Eric (both live in Indiana) noted, they certainly could be at home during the rut (the chase phase was just starting the last day or two we were in camp in the UP) as could Greg and I in northwestern lower peninsula. However, the camp fun trumps chasing a big buck every time. If we put camp back a week, we bump into the other partners who are there for gun season. If we go earlier in October, we run into warm weather deer hanging issues and competition with bear hunters/season. I too used to like to hunt 'alone' or with a single partner but as I wrote in my TBM article a year ago about camp, there's an aging process(along with some 'mentoring') as we move along in our hunting careers that changes priorities. Camp life and hunting is just really different than one on one hunting.
I'm glad everyone has enjoyed the show. We were all thankful to have the opportunity to have our camp 'legacy' filmed for viewing for years to come. As I mentioned with the introduction, Brian has some big shoes to fill replacing a 30 year legend and he's off to a great start. We all wish him the best.