Camp Lejeune

Shan · August 30, 2014, 01:16:00 PM

As I travel from base to base I'm learning new things in each area. I hunted in Maryland while going to school, hunted at Quantico, hunted Vandenberg AFB in CA, and now I find myself in Lejeune. Once again, a new area and new opportunities.

Does anyone live in the area and want to get together to shoot? I've started scouting on base and my word, the woods are different down here! Just a few hundred miles south and the pines are so thick, the bugs are biting and seems like the water table is always only a few inches below the surface.
Looking forward to another deer season.

~Shan

Paul_R · August 30, 2014, 01:22:00 PM

Boy does that bring back memories. I was stationed at Courthouse Bay and there was good hunting in that neck of the woods. At least there was in the 70's...

I gotta say I don't miss the bugs and humidity one bit! :D

McDave · August 30, 2014, 02:14:00 PM

I spent about 9 months at Lejeune in '67 finishing up my enlistment in the Marines. I really enjoyed canoeing and sailing there, but I absolutely did not enjoy the mosquitos. In Vietnam, at least they wouldn't bite you where you were covered by a shirt, but in North Carolina, they just bit right through the shirt. I wasn't into bow hunting at that time, but if I had been, I certainly would have checked it out.

Cwilder · August 30, 2014, 02:41:00 PM

It's just like here man. Find the food pinch points and funnels
I don't want to have to come down and show you how it's done

good luck brother be safe and have fun

Shan · August 30, 2014, 02:47:00 PM

Hey! Good to hear from you Chris! Ill shoot you a text. Hope all is well

JARHEAD1371 · August 30, 2014, 05:13:00 PM

You are correct, the hunting is very different down here. The best advice I can give you is concentrate on the "bow only areas" especially near the golf course. If you find a really thick area with trails going in/out, you can use a brush cutter to help guide the deer past your stand tree. Most people do that during the very short winter and clean it up a few weeks before the season.

I would like to get together and shoot, but my school schedule at ECU will keep me very busy for the next few months. Good luck and invest in a thermacell with plenty of refills.

J-dog · August 31, 2014, 08:19:00 AM

Lejeune is over run with deer, you will do just fine. The heat and humidity? Lived here all my days and still not really used to it. Where I hunt (Pollocksville area north if you) when the heat is on no need to get to your stand more than an hour before dark, nor sit more than 2 hours after daylight.

If you can find some sort of bottom, one that is nice and shady, the deer will be bedded up in there.

Seed ticks will also be an issue, I wear knee high rubber boots with trousers tucked. Sprayed with a repellant.

Mid October, early nov. Things will change for the better! Cooler weather and all.

Shoot straight,

J

M60gunner · August 31, 2014, 11:18:00 AM

I spent time at Lejeune also. August at the rifle range was almost as bad as Nam. Did see deer but they tended to be skittish, maybe all the shooting. Could not hunt but always thought hunting would be good there. I wonder if there are still gators down by the picnic area at the range?

Dale in Pa · August 31, 2014, 12:09:00 PM

Spent most of '71 and all of '72 there. There were a lot of deer even back then. Can't really say that I miss it though. Skeeters,ticks and no see ums galore.

Paul_R · August 31, 2014, 01:12:00 PM

I remember bears being plentiful enough to be considered a hazard/nuisance. I had several (non hunting) encounters.

Shan · September 01, 2014, 06:43:00 PM

Thanks for the replies gents. Went for a little run and it was hot as sin today. I guess that'll cue the deer into water sources.

looking forward to some cooler weather

Roadkill · September 01, 2014, 08:02:00 PM

My magic at leJeune, 35 years ago was finding places where people would not go. Wading creeks to get into isolated places. Golf course was not bow only zone, but sounds good. Ticks and mozzies were everywhere and constant. Wish ya luck, fellow jarhead.

Roadkill · September 01, 2014, 08:04:00 PM

My magic at leJeune, 35 years ago was finding places where people would not go. Wading creeks to get into isolated places. Golf course was not bow only zone, but sounds good. Ticks and mozzies were everywhere and constant. Wish ya luck, fellow jarhead.

Air Cleaver · September 01, 2014, 08:50:00 PM

Semper Fi! You guys make me glad I was a California Marine. Although I did do a stint at Bragg "Gallant Knight 84". Good Luck!

Jon Stewart · September 02, 2014, 03:15:00 PM

Was there for two months in 68. Didn't even have time to un pack my sea bag let along look for deer!!!!!

smokin joe · September 03, 2014, 10:23:00 AM

Do yourself a favor and look up how to treat your clothing with Permanone. It is necessary in order to keep yourself from getting loaded with ticks and eaten up by chiggars. If you have never been infested with chiggar bites you are lucky. The addition of a Thermacell unit to the Permanone treatment is a necessary step as well.
PM me if you need info on the Permanone treatment.

postman · September 03, 2014, 04:05:00 PM

Bow hunted Lejeune for 35 yrs, but a few years ago they cut down 60 percent of the bow areas and build housing projects and schools and new roads. And to make things even worse they allow baiting and all that has done is make the nice bucks nocturnal and a lot of arguments about hunting to close to someone's corn pile. Best thing to do is hunt gun areas because there is no baiting in these areas and just wear your colors.

mike g · September 04, 2014, 10:32:00 AM

Semper Fi everyone....