Vintage: Northern Adirondacks.

[cshold]

11/7/1924

[daisygordoninc]

Do You know what state and what year?

[cshold]

Do You know what state and what year?

NYS
11/07/1924

[cshold]

Love this guys style
Awesome coat & rifle

[cshold]

1904
Same camp as above.
Oldest known picture of the camp.

[bigbore442001]

I love those old pictures.

[cshold]

1930's

[cjensen]

Big Falls, Minnesota 1904

[Les Staley]

Great pictures. A well armed group!

[Blaine]

All the Right Stuff....

[.45colt]

Awesome, I wonder if the camp is still there?? Thanks.

[cshold]

Awesome, I wonder if the camp is still there?? Thanks.

Stay tuned

[cshold]

More vintage pictures of the same camp.
Name of the camp: "Long As We Live Hunting Club"

[.45colt]

That Camp just beg's for the classic "Palace in the Poppel " poem.
PALACE IN THE POPPLE

By Gordon H. Heuer

It’s a smoky, raunchy bears’ nest
With an unswept, drafty floor.
And pillow ticking curtains
And knife scars on the door.
The smell of a pine knot fire
From a stove pipe that’s come loose
Mingles sweetly with the boot grease
And the Copenhagen snoose.

There are work worn .30-30’s
With battered, steel shod stocks,
And drying lines of long johns
And of steaming, pungent socks.
There’s a table for the Bloody Four
And their game of two-card draw,
And there’s deep and dreamless sleeping
On bunk ticks stuffed with straw.

Jerry and Jack stand by the stove,
Their gun talk loud and hot,
And Bogie has drawn a pair of kings
And is raking in the pot.
Frank’s been drafted again as cook
And is peeling some spuds for stew
While Bruce wanders by in baggy drawers
Reciting “Dan McGrew.”

No where on earth is fire so warm
Nor coffee so infernal,
No whiskers so stiff, jokes so rich,
Nor hope blooming so eternal.
A man can live for a solid week
In the same old underbritches
And walk like a man and spit when he wants
And scratch himself where he itches.

I tell you, boys, there’s no place else
Where I’d rather be, come fall,
Where I eat like a bear and sing like a wolf
And feel like I’m bull-pine tall,
In that raunchy cabin out in the bush
In the land of raven and loon,
With a tracking snow lying new on the ground
At the end of the Rutting Moon.

[cshold]

75th. anniversary of the above hunting camp (1999).

the

[gamekeeper]

Interesting' gun mags in the magazine rack...

[gamekeeper]

.45colt, thanks for the great poem.....

[cshold]

Interesting' gun mags in the magazine rack...

And the appropriate response is:
"What Happens At Deer Camp, Stays At Deer Camp."

[kaschi]

Cool "racks" in the mag rack!

[6pt-sika]

Never been to any NY camps but I have had the good fortune of several in the Poconos and the guys in the camp in the Poconos were pretty much the same guys I shared a camp with on the Eastern Shore of Maryland .

This type of thing is almost unheard of in central Virginia . I've been in a couple decent camps in Arkansas as well .