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Old Camp Photos / 1998 Season
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1998 SEASON

Steveie 99.jpg (48885 bytes) Steve Paoli with his second buck of opening day, a nice fork horn shot from the Viet Nam stand.

 

 

 

98 Jason Buck.jpg (17355 bytes)Jason Paoli with a 8 point buck shot over in the slashings.

 

 

 

SRJ 98 Buck.jpg (16892 bytes)Steve, Ralph and Jason Paoli with a 8 point buck Steve shot opening day at 8am.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OLD CAMP PHOTOS  
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Old and New Camp.jpg (10665 bytes)The Old and The New (1999)- Picture of the new camp next to the old tar paper camp. The old camp was bulldozed down the Spring of 2000. Nothing left but old photos and memories.

 

 

Winter Day At Old Camp.jpg (38525 bytes)Nice Winter Day - There's something special about a sunny winter day, the blue sky, white snow, fresh air and deer hunting. Nothing better!

 

 

 

Bois Brule River.jpg (52210 bytes)Bois Brule River - The Bois Brule River in Northern Wisconsin is wild and famous for its trout fishing and canoeing.

 

 

 

Morning Snow.jpg (36747 bytes)Winter Storm - Sometimes snow falls on our hunting camp a few inches at a time and then sometimes a few feet at a time. This night we got 18 inches of snow and this picture was taken early that morning.

 

 

Bois Brule River 2.jpg (77056 bytes)The Bois Brule Again - Just can't get enough pictures, the river changes every bend.

 

 

 

Morning Snow 2.jpg (14975 bytes)Lost - (1991) The day after Thanksgiving (Friday) Jason and I made a little drive back between the creeks in early afternoon. We wounded a buck, started tracking it and to make a long story short, we got lost. Right at dusk a storm blew off Lake Superior and it started snowing. It was really snowing and blowing hard, and since we had no idea where we were, we decided to spend the night in the woods. We were rescued by the Turra Camp and returned to our camp that night safely. You can read the whole story at the Story Section.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER SEASONS
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79 Buck.jpg (18958 bytes)1979 Season - Ralph Paoli with 7 point, 204 pound buck 

 


91 8 pt.jpg (44390 bytes)1991 Season - Ralph Paoli with a small eight point buck shot between the creeks.

 

 

94 Bow J E.jpg (22321 bytes)1994 Bow Season - Eddie Hopkin and Jason Paoli with their bucks.

 

 

 

Battling Bucks.jpg (32768 bytes)1998 Rifle Season - Battling Bucks   Brodie Dugger,  Ralph Paoli and Justin Dugger.

 

 

J D Bow Kill.jpg (25427 bytes)1993 Bow Season - Jason Paoli and Dan Dugger with a fork horn Dan shot.

 

 

91 Buck Pole.jpg (33032 bytes)

1991 Buck Pole on opening weekend.

 

 

 

 

96 8 and 10 pt.jpg (21226 bytes)1996 Rifle Season - Ralph Paoli with a 8 point and Dan Dugger with a 6 point shot opening day. 

 

 

Jason Gutting.jpg (19138 bytes)Jason Paoli inspecting the gutting job.

 

 

 

 

 

V J Buck Pole.jpg (26927 bytes)Van Peterson and Jason Paoli admiring their bow kills.

 

 

V R D Bucks.jpg (28773 bytes)Van Peterson, Ralph Paoli and Dan Dugger with some of the bucks shot opening day of the 1990 Season.

 

 

1987 Buck Pole.jpg (76499 bytes)I can't remember what year this was, but there's a couple of nice bucks on the buck pole.

 

 

 

Buck Pole 1.jpg (59284 bytes)Another nice picture of the buck pole. I don't know if it's the same deer as in the above photo.

 

 

 

 

OTHER  CAMP  CONTRIBUTORS 

If you would like to submit a story or photos of your camp life, send them to Repacking@AOL.com and I'll post them here.
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Martinsen Camp.jpg (173718 bytes)The Martinsen Hunting Camp - is located about 1 1/2 miles from the Bois Brule Hunting camp as the crow flies. The Nov. 2000 Rifle season was a successful one for the Martinsen Camp as the picture on the right proves. These fellow hunters are good friends of ours and we occasionally stop by each others camps during the season with updates. This year we didn't leave our camp to much to go visiting because we didn't have any big bucks stories to tell. It seems guys from the Martinsen Camp came over to see us every day, sometimes twice a day!
Dan Dugger from the Bois Brule Hunting Camp has some skepticism about how these guys shot so many big bucks. He has a couple of theory's. 
The first one is that they all were hunting over food plots, you know, like they do in Texas.  Dugger figures these guys were out at the camp all spring and summer preparing and planting these huge food plots. He thinks they planted cabbage, pumpkins, rutabagas  and carrots just in case the deer got sick of eating all that corn.
The second is he doubts the picture. According to Dugger, he has seen many deer hunting photos of the Martinsen Hunting Camp. In those photos he said he never witnessed any bucks hanging from the buck pole, just a bunch of does. Dugger thinks someone from the Martinsen Camp took some computer night classes and learned how to digitally retouch photos. He knows someone in that camp is a computer nerd and is afraid they'll break into our database of big buck pictures and somehow alter them or even worse, post them on their website someday and claim they shot them.
Dugger might have something there, "why else"  he said "would they prominently show off themselves in the picture and the bucks are way in the background."  "Something stinks on Tar Paper Alley" says Dugger.
Well, I just want to say I'll take their word for it and congratulate them on a successful season. They are a bunch of good Northwoods hunters who know their way around the woods like the back of their hand. After all, it's full of  four wheeler trails, how could they get lost.