Campfires.....Nature's sedative........

[monkeyball]

What is it about campfires,the smell,the crackling and popping,and that soul searching stare into a red flame. It does it for me every time,like a sedative I can feel myself calm right down. No matter what I have going on.

 Good friends,good hunts,and good campfires. Follow the smoke and come on in and tell us your tale......

[monkeyball]

These next few are at a buddies cabin up in Sullivan Co. Penna. After a non-stop day of shooting we always would head up for a get together around the campfire. This is my buddy Howard and Chris....

   

[monkeyball]

Howard and Rob....
   

[monkeyball]

Always some deep discussion around the campfire.


 

[monkeyball]

In my back yard before a previous hunting season.


       

[monkeyball]

Me included....
   

[monkeyball]

One of my favorite pictures of a campfire hangs in my back room.


   

[Longbow1953]

Nice.  

[monkeyball]

If you have some photos to share please add them in. If you have a story to share,better yet.


                      Thanks for looking,

                                      Craig

[ron w]

Tough to beat time spent around a camp fire or a wood stove........has a calming effect on me.  

[lpcjon2]

This is my son night shooting in the yard.

[Izzy]

Hog Heaven, a favorite of many TGers.

[reddogge]

After a Feb rabbit bowhunt on the Eastern Shore of MD, our campfire.

 

Here's the intrepid hunters. Yes, we are 3 sheets to the wind.

 

A big gathering at BBTC.

 

[Kingsnake]

Thanks, Monkeyball!  I needed that this evening!      

Kingsnake

[Kevin L.]

We call it "Rendezvous TV", it's my favorite show.

[Mike Vines]

A couple years ago on the 4th of July at our bow hunting club...

[Lotech Joe]

I enjoy campfires so much I can't explain it. I can't do hunting camps anymore, but I really believe campfires for either fishing or hunting are so important that I put a small campfire ring in my back yard. I can still fish and camp, so the gathering around the campfire still lives in my reality. Nothing is more important than the stories, fables and just plain communitication between friends around the "Campfire" that they are the central reason for gatherings. If I can go to hunting camps, the fire pit will be the central gathering point. Same thing goes for fishing camps. Even if you just go camping for camping's sake, the campfire is the reason for the event. God Bless the campfire. May it live forever.

[Kingsnake]

Only 4 more months 'til BBTC again!

Kingsnake

[zipper bowss]

I think it was last year about this time.Ron La Clair shared a poem here that summed it up pretty dang well. Maybe we will get lucky and he will repost it.
Bill

[lablover]

Campfires are the gift you give yourself for a day well spent. I know a hunting trip is still fun without the fire at the end but it just seems more enjoyable with it. Like the perfect end to the day.
Several years ago on a backpacking trip into the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma several good friend and I were standing around camp talking over the communal campfire. The fire had died down to a perfect bed of coals. We were discussing past glories backpacking and hunting as we all hunt together also. Max Johnson a 7o something friend who normally walked us into the ground, strolled up and as he was looking into the last embers of a dying fire, remarked "Now that's a fire a man could Lye over all night long" and with that he turned and went to bed.
We had a good laugh over that, but that is always one of my favorite memories. No picture to share and I wish I did as Max is gone now. But he's with us on every campfire I have.