Have been using an outfitter tent for over twenty years.  Started sleeping on straw, then air mattresses and now cots.  I think cots are the way to go during cold weather especially.  Add about four inches of foam to the top of the cot and even my old back doesn`t complain.

Over the years I've tented and used a popup. As I'm nearing retirement and my wife goes on almost every trip, we went out and bought a 30' Montana 5th wheeler last summer. Used it Bear hunting this fall, unbelievable winds and 3 days of 90+ and then 3 days cold needing the furnace on me convinced me it's the way to go when possible. The next week was spent in a wall tent in Colorado and that worked too.

Let's keep this one alive. I like to see how fellow bow hunters pitch camp.

I had a camper for a lot of years. But for the last 10 or so I've tent camped. I prefer a good roomy tent over a camper anytime as long as I have a heater.

I've spent many a night in a GP medium tents in the mountains, Takes a bit to set up but the make a great base camp and can handle just about anything you can throw at them.

The same goes for my Tipi!!



Tracy

For extended stays of a week or more I prefer my wall tent (12X 14) with wood stove.
  If I am just going for a quick few days I either take our "A" frame Chalet pop-up or small tent.

For a couple of days I'll sleep in the back of my truck. For more than that I'll use the wall tent with a wood stove. No problems with either and I'm 60.

Even my wife prefers the wall tent to a camper or trailer. (Mind you I had to build her a queen size bed and a kitchen to go with the tent.)

JW

I'd love to have a tipi or one of Whip's pyramid hunter tents. These posts always make me waste alot of time on the internet because after reading about a particular camper I'll do searches on them and spend too much time dreaming..."Oh, that's nice", "That one is cool"...hmmm.

Just like hunts...fun to dream.

Hi everyone...I promised some pics of out Ga. Hunting camp what we had at the Paradise hunt club.  I will try to post a few.

It may take a bit for me to get the hang of posting pics here again...so please be patient.

We used this for several years at the Paradise hunt camp.  

God...I miss those days!  Miss the camp...the hunt and the guys Tom and I hunted often with...

I miss having Mudfish make me a Yukon Jack drink...with Tang.  Mudfish only made those drinks if it was going below freeing.  You really needed the drink to warm you up from the dampish air in freezing weather.....coming off the oxbow of the Ockmugee River.

This photo is the hunt camp ...but was taken at the Ga. Hamburg State Park...we camped there for an archery tournament.
 

Northern Ontario moose hunting this fall.

A hennessey hammock and a tarp...


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man...that's livin'...

obviously, I can't post pictures too well...

You need it to say...[img] before the http and after the JPG...and it will work.

We used an electric space heater in the winter and also a down comforter.   In the summer we used the AC in the corner at the front end.

We enventually sprayed dark green paint on the air vent on the roof...

We had bubble wrap on the ceiling at first...stuck on with spray glue...and eventually replaced it with blue board.  

We started out with cots with memory foam and sleeping bags.  The we built the platform for the queen bed and stored out gear in action packers from Walmart underneath the bed.

We mostly hunt here in Florida and in Missouri now.  If we get into another hunting camp we would think about outfitting it with the bunks  from Cabelas in the camping section.

RV all the way!
I liked to camp in a tent when I was a kid, but since becoming an adult and actually enjoying my sleep....I'll take a camper anyday. It doesn't do anything to take away from the experience for me either. Afterall, it's not like we are parked right next to all the amenities of a motel or anything. It's still in the woods, walk out the front door and take a leak, sit around the open fire.....     It's all good!
As long as I can see the stars and not street lights.......I'm a happy camper.  

I say camper nothin like a good confortable nights sleep to recharge for a nother long day in the stand .I started out with a colman pop up loved it . But the old i get i need my toys get bigger 33 foot home on wheels David

If i can fit it in where im going i pull my 30' fifthwheel, queen size bed, full size shower, heat and air. After a hard day, a good hot shower a little TV a nice night sleep and when i wake up i feel like its the first day.

Pat, that's a nice looking tent you got there. Beautiful country you're camped in also. I'm sure you are a lot more comfortable in that tent than the one we used in the mid 1970's.
Scott

My project for next year is to turn a utility trailer into a camper for my son and I just like your's Dina.