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    Posted: 02 August 2003 at 13:38

Heck some of you may not even pitch a camp, but if you do how far, what do use for fuel (both cooking & otherwise), poles (take or make).

  As far as that goes, what are the rules of cutting wood for fires, use tree parts for the tent and such.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 August 2003 at 14:23
My hunting camp is 14 miles in. I bring propane for cooking because it's easier, faster, and more reliable than the old white gas stoves. I have a wood stove for heating the tent and we have a campfire going most days. I cut my own tent poles on site. I try really hard to use standing dead trees for that and they aren't in short supply where we go. Firewood is supplied by blowdown stuff that happens every year. I pick out the dry stuff that's laying around. We're pretty far from the main trail so our site doesn't get a lot of traffic. We're basically the only people that impact the wood supply or the grass for grazing the ponies.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 August 2003 at 09:44
About the farthest you can go in CO. is about 10 miles,and then you start getting into hunters coming in from the other side. We cut our poles and firewood out of dead stands. A Forest Service guy will write you up for cutting live trees no matter how far back in , if they find you. Propane doesn't cut it up high, but we usaully take one or two small bottles in. I think you get more heat pound for pond from white gas than you do of propane. And if it's really cold you have problems with pressure drop. We pack in a 2 burner coleman and about two gals of fuel to cook with and light , but do a lot of the cooking on the little wood burning stove we take in.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 August 2003 at 02:47

I have the "ultimate" pack-in distance.  Knew a guy, many years ago, who had never hunted, and who wanted to get into blackpowder hunting . . . so he built a Thompson Center kit . . . did a nice job.  When the season opened, he drove down to a forested area . . . parked his SUV on the side of the road, walked in about 50 feet, shot a whitetail buck, dragged it back to his truck, and headed for town . . . all in about 15 minutes!  Slept in his own bed that night . . . with venison in the locker.  Of course, that doesn't sound like much fun to me.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 August 2003 at 04:30
I don't even load my rifle til I'm 20 miles in.
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