Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: bjrogg on May 05, 2016, 10:41:39 am
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Thought it might be nice to share some pictures and stories of all our favorite places. I was working in the field on farm by my house. It was a beautiful sunrise and it's by my hunting blind. This spot is only about 250 yards from Lake Huron and you could see the sun reflection off the lake through the leafless trees. I took some pictures but haven't had time to download them. I'm not sure if they'll show everything and sure it won't be the same as being there but I'll try to post some pictures at a later date.
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A little piece of heaven. 9200 feet up. No cell service.
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That what I'm talking about thanks for sharing 😊
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Trail shelter on Kennedy peak. :)
Zuma
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Does this count? This is where I want to be. Maybe I should tidy a bit :-[ :-[ :-[
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Sure does could be the best one yet ;)
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Mine is a little patch of land on our property. It's secluded and quiet. I love hunting this area and have killed my best deer there. These pictures are from the back corner of the field and just inside the trees. I have stands in both locations. Even when I don't see any deer I enjoy sitting and watching this area. I do a lot of hiking there also.
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/20151025_182232_zpsgnj9x1yd.jpg) (http://s666.photobucket.com/user/Outlawstaves/media/20151025_182232_zpsgnj9x1yd.jpg.html)
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/20151102_081141_zpsle0vgean.jpg) (http://s666.photobucket.com/user/Outlawstaves/media/20151102_081141_zpsle0vgean.jpg.html)
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/20151103_080219_zpstzgnj47d.jpg) (http://s666.photobucket.com/user/Outlawstaves/media/20151103_080219_zpstzgnj47d.jpg.html)
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/20151101_093316_zpsbzkppa5d.jpg) (http://s666.photobucket.com/user/Outlawstaves/media/20151101_093316_zpsbzkppa5d.jpg.html)
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/20151103_091710_zpsdgt9nh76.jpg) (http://s666.photobucket.com/user/Outlawstaves/media/20151103_091710_zpsdgt9nh76.jpg.html)
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Stony Island NY. There's prettier places, but man we have fun here.
(http://i.imgur.com/ykcmD8Y.jpg)
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Nice pictures guys you know I spent a lot of the last 45 years alone in a tractor always said you gotta be able to get along with yourself to do this. But auto steer and a smart phone and this site man I got a whole bunch of guys riding with me and we're going places 👌
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lol It sounds like you should be trailing a meteorite
detector too bj. >:D
Here is a good spot.
Zuma
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Only --- can make that. Beautiful picture Zuma
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You can fill those blanks in any way you like but for me they woundn't spell man something even more powerful
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You can fill those blanks in any way you like but for me they woundn't spell man something even more powerful
Nature?
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Here's some of my hunting spot
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not sure if you can see it but lake is behind trees, blind sets along side a 25' deep ravine
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Another one of my favorite spots is on the same farm. Last summer I dug a small but deep pond. The lake sets below the hill you can see it through the trees. I have a trail that wanders around the field and ravine to the pond. When the weather is good my wife walks there every day lots of days twice
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Finished planting corn last night, had a little time to have cup of coffee and snap some pictures I think these might look better.
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Stony Island NY. There's prettier places, but man we have fun here.
(http://i.imgur.com/ykcmD8Y.jpg)
Good to know your favorite spot is defended by trebuchet, lol.
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Stony Island NY. There's prettier places, but man we have fun here.
(http://i.imgur.com/ykcmD8Y.jpg)
Good to know your favorite spot is defended by trebuchet, lol.
Shouldn't they all be?
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Indeed, indeed.
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Besides my crib along Baby Creek in Indiana, I'm quite fond of the Spirit Station at Twin Oaks in TN.
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Looking at my residence from the NW before addition on top of burm home.Lots of times the view of wildlife from inside the house can be my favorite place to be too.
(http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Beadman1/PictureEdspictures%20015_zpstmmddu5h.jpg) (http://s920.photobucket.com/user/Beadman1/media/PictureEdspictures%20015_zpstmmddu5h.jpg.html)
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I feel comfortable really in any woodland place or situation.
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Great spot Beadman. I kinda like a mix of field & forests, nice to be able to see more than 50' some of the time. Bowterist Spirit Station is definitely what I'm talking about. Thanks for sharing I've never been there now have a little idea what it's like. If you don't have pictures stories are good too. I've got some more spots in mind but they'll have to wait for now.
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More of the pond
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This is an interesting historical spot. It's on every really old map of Michigan I've ever seen even before towns. This is White Rock it was a large limestone outcrop offshore in Lake Huron. This place was very sacred to the local tribes. They gave offering to there sprirts here. The very 1st Governor of Mi. Signed a treaty that no white man would settle north of this rock. I took a few pictures I hope you can read plaque. The rock has been hit by lightning multiple times, used for target practice by Air Force during WW2 and worn by the powers of its environment it's much smaller now. There is a small road side park here now it's worth stopping and following the path to the lake to read the interesting stories on the plaques. I can see this park from my house (north of the white Rock).
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Between 500' to 1000' below this sign in the San Juan Mountains of SW Colorado.
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Couple of favorite spots.. But have to say this is the top of the list. Dutchman Lake in Southern IL have spent countless hours out there cat fishing, bow hunting, camping, skinny dipping, spear fishing, ice swimming, exploring, and just getting away from noise to be close with my God. An awesome place
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Great spots guys keep em coming. Just curious if anybody can read the plaques of pictures I took of White Rock they tell a couple really cool stories
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I can see perch and walleye jumping out of the water back there. Michigan is one perfect place to live, isn't it? Bear, elk, deer, turkey and all the fish and water anybody could ever want.
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I love it here Pearly. When wife and I went on Honeymoon we wet to northern California took 1900 mile road trip camping in Redwoods, went to coast, checked out NAPA Valley Ended up in Lake Tahoe. Everywhere we went I kept asking my new wife isn't this beautiful? Her reply was always the same yes but it's beautiful back home too. We had the Red Eye from Reno to Detroit no sleep dodged storms most of the flight back. It felt good to get back in our own vehicle but I wasn't really looking forward to the 2 3/4 hr drive in the dark. Once we got off I-94 and out of Port Huron the sky over the lake started its change from a dark star felld sky to a brilliant colorful sunrise. I turned to my new wife and said your right hun it is beautiful here.
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We are truly Blessed here in Michigan ! One of My very favoritest spots of all, is in a State Forest campsite - under a GIANT White Pine in NE Lower. It would be hard to add all the hours/days over the Years the time spent there. Deer Hunting and Grouse Hunting were the pastimes, but what stands out is the many Selfbow get-togethers held at that Campground. Many Friends have come and gone, and the gatherings faded, but the memories will last forever. I think Wirwicki would agree with Me, that it's truly a Magical spot ! Bob
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I agree Bob. I might be a troll but I'm a rural troll. U.P. Has some really cool spots too. Heck I wouldn't blame them if they succeeded and made there own state. Most of the time when you tell somebody your from Michigan they say oh your from Detroit.
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Where did you go Ruddy Darter? I saw your post and pictures on my phone but now when I got a chance to reply everything is gone. At any rate they were cool pictures and I'm sure there are more cool spots across the pond and down under and many place on this big rock were all riding around on.
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Anywhere in the great outdoors of Kain-tuc-kee the happy hunting grounds........
DBar
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Does this count? This is where I want to be. Maybe I should tidy a bit :-[ :-[ :-[
DC, a person with a clean shop, will never know the abject joy of finding something once thought irretrievably lost!
Wayne
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If that's the case I should be a very a happy person ::)
Ruddy Darter. :D
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I beg to differ. I can lose a tool in a perfectly clean tidy shop. I also walk to the tool box from some other building or under some piece of equipment and forget what I went there to get have crawl back under or go to the other building to remember. Of course I don't see anything messy about DC's shop either looks pertty organized to me. D Bar that whole region KC, TN ,WV is one of my spots too.Bob sorry I read your post wrong 1st time see your a troll to. Still wouldn't blame U.P. If they made there own state.
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Here's one of my favourite spots in the summer, Windsor castle and Windsor great park. It's a bicycle ride from me and is a great place to visit.
Down by the river is a lovely spot for a romantic day out and you can hire little rowing boats, all the swans make it very picturesque, I collect Canada goose feathers from here for fletchings.
The great park, with its ancient oaks, is super for a picnic and a stroll around. :) Worth a visit if your ever around this neck of the woods.
Ruddy Darter.
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Blimey ???
One could get run over by the Queen's stags.
Do they have a special bow hunt there :)
Sign me up.
Zuma
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Haha, nope Zuma,
One does not. It is frowned apon to hunt Her Majesty's deer. It is regarded as awefully impolite. :D
Ruddy Darter.
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Swamp country of S.Carolina...Pocotaligo river...Leaving everything behind for a day ;)
Don
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These all look like very special places and I've enjoyed seeing them. It just dawned on me that I've never taken any pictures in my favorite spots. I'll have to fix that.
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Don that sure looks like a place you can leave everything behind and I think that's why these spots are so special to us. Adam I know what you mean about the pictures. That's one thing I like about cell phones is being able to take and look at pictures. One of my favorite spots all my pictures are in my head. When I was younger my dad and a bunch of his friend would go fishing by Blind River Canada. When I got older in my twenties I got to go. We camped at a very primitive site on lake Bearhead just below bigger Lake Matineda. We ate pike we cooked over a small fire on the rocks each day. There were little lakes all around that we could put our small 14' aluminum boats in. I'll never forget how it was all rock but trees growing right out of the cracks in the rocks. It was a annual event till we were told the site was going to have condo's built on it and we could no longer use it. Really wonder what it's like now I would have loved to take my family there
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bjrogg,
Sorry to here about you losing your site...That happens so many times...Sometimes your memories are better than pictures, kind of like small movies you can play back in your mind that belong just to you buddy...
Don
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I also love black water rivers and swamps. We used to spend a lot of time in the Okefenokee Swamp in South GA or the Ogeechee River south of Savannah. It's like fishing in tea. Actually it is tannin tea as many teas are.
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Don, looks like where I fish in Florida. Maybe that's why I just bought a place in SC.
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Eddie,
Like Pat said, the water looks like strong brewed ice tea...Beautiful when the sun shines into it...Nice Redbreast fishing to! Where in S.Carolina you locating?
Don
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Don, just bought two acres in Mc Cormick county next to Chris Cade's Farm. Not relocating there yet. Maybe in the future but my hunting, fishing out post for now.
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The flow and essence of the thread is quite pleasant. :)
I have a deep appreciation for those that embrace all that nature has to offer us.
Trying to express and share this with all of us takes a bit of time and effort.
Thank you all for your thoughts and images. ;)
Zuma
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I agree with Zuma 100 percent. I've been reading everyone's replies with great intrest, I don't allways reply right away so people see that someone else has post a spot. The tea colored water reminds me of Tequminaw falls in the U.P. of Michigan. I really apreciate the pictures and stories that people have posted, I hope to see a lot more. Most of my pictures of this spot are on my old phone but here's a place that makes my winter shorter and really enjoyable.
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There is something mysterious about tannic water like that, Don. Michigan is covered in water like that due to all the cedars and pines along our rivers and lakes "up north". It seems some of our best warm and cold water fishing takes place in tannic water.
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BJ looks like you have enough fox fur
to put a gray inside a red :)
Err, even enough to share with a fellow
member, cough, cough.
Here is a little of my valley. Arrow
points to my place.
Zuma
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That's beautiful Zuma. That's one thing we don't have in Michigan is Mountains there are a few big hills here and there but where I live what us flatlanders call hills are actually gullies. I wish I would have joined this site before I "gave my fur away" this year. I had some of the nicest Red Fox I've ever had. I sure would have rather give them to you than give them up for what I got for them. I did keep 2 Reds, 7 Muskrats, and 2 mink. I figured the little bit I was going to get for them was going to keep some and make something myself from them
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The tea colored water reminds me of Tequminaw falls in the U.P. of Michigan.
That's a new spelling on me. Tahquamenon falls was just about my back yard growing up. Used to work at the brewery at the upper falls. Going down to the falls at night after the place closed looking at the stars with the water rushing right next to you- that was a pretty nice spot.
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Yes I never won any spelling bee's wasn't even gonna try Lake Eitchy Titty as my wife calls it. Which is complete opposite clear as glass see all the way to the bottom. You know I never saw that stuff till about 5 years ago when I was 50 years old. Still never saw pictured rocks so much to see so many great spots.
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Don't sweat the spelling- Most people that visit can't pronounce it either. Pictured Rocks are fantastic, you certainly should try to make it up there for them.