The Worst

[Jolly]

What is the worst hunting camp you have ever been in?

For me, it was a tin camp during an icy night at the end of one deer season, several years ago. The camp was made from 2x4's covered with corrugated tin, sides and roof. Not even a piece of newspaper for insulation. Dirt floor. Cut-outs for the windows, but no windows...Visqueen tacked over the openings. Plywood bunks with no mattresses, moss or bedding of any kind. One old trashburner heater. Got down to 14 degrees that night.

At least we were all miserable together.

[Ozarks Tom]

Without a doubt it was many years ago when I'd gotten back from Brazil, with amebic dysentery. I thought I was over it when a guy invited me to his deer lease. Nope, came back that night. Didn't finish the hunt.

[Jolly]

The only thing that could have made that better was no outhouse and pouring down rain.

[tarbe]

I am of the opinion that a bad day hunting is better than a good day in the office....so it is difficult for me to state I have ever had a bad camp.

Closest would probably be my first tent camp hunt on my land in MO (before we had the cabin) and it rained continuously the entire time!

Mid 30s to mid 40s and rain for several days on end without a way to completely escape it is pretty close to miserable. Didn't even try to keep a fire going...so new on the place I did not have a supply of dry wood laid up yet.

Yes, we had rivulets of water running through the tent!

Second place could be the tent camp in northern Wisconsin when the temps never got above zero. But that was too much of an adventure to be considered miserable! We still reminisce about that one, 37 years later!