Camping during first week of Rifle for deer

[Sam Menard]

The thing about propane is the condensation on the walls of the tent. For many years, I used to camp out for moose. Essentially, we built a small cabin and used vapour barrier, poly tarps, and plywood for walls and roofs. Minimal lumber used. Heated it with a homemade barrel stove. Those were the days!
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[dean.f]

The thing about propane is the condensation on the walls of the tent. For many years, I used to camp out for moose. Essentially, we built a small cabin and used vapour barrier, poly tarps, and plywood for walls and roofs. Minimal lumber used. Heated it with a homemade barrel stove. Those were the days!
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I love that setup, low cost luxury.

[Sam Menard]

I love that setup, low cost luxury.

That was 35 years ago, I’m the kid sitting down facing the camera. Bare ground floor and all, I felt like I was staying at the Ritz! Lots of moose and great memories!

[FishHog]

Your buddy heater is going to add so much humidity that you will never be able to dry out wet gear. If you don’t get anything wet you might be ok but every year I’m amazed at all the gear hanging on everything at my cabin trying to dry out around the wood stove

[Ata83]

Great tips , appreciate it.

always been my fascination to camp out in the cold/ winter, but never got around doing it actually. [dont think others in the group have such fantasies, hence why asking how to heat the tent lol ]

We are not going far up north, our tags are for WMU 60 .. 30 min drive to Bancroft ... so we can take off anytime basically and head to town .. or even for a hot dinner close by. Plan is to do this close to home / Town, to practice and learn more, and eventually try it up north for moose in coming years.

ill check again if I can find a cabin in the area, and sleep outside it .. for added safety and back up, or even a motel or something in town and drive to the spot in the morning.. but much rather be close so I dont have to Haul the ATV and other stuff daily.

I dont think We are allowed to make a wall tent like Sam's on crown around here, but thats a very cool Idea also, can set it up and take it down fast it apears.

Wall tent + wood stove sounds like a good idea as well, ill check if I can find anything on kijiji. id probably have to head there a couple days earlier to collect firewood though for that.

Edit:
I never even thought about wet gear !! thats a great point as well. I do sweat alot, specially if walking with the climber ... I guess have to also check the weather closer to it, if alot of rain then sitting around fire at night wont make much sense neither.

[Big Tuna]

I tented for hunting in protector tent with wood fire place and in ice hut with propane for heat.
While hunting, I much prefer propane heating. With fire place, the smell of smoke quickly gets into all your closes and skin and everything you brought, no scent control. Then there is weight and space of bringing wood, or wasting hunting time and sweating to cut wood.
There is also the ups and downs of heat control with wood. The Fire Chief always seams to sleep closest or farthest from fire place and make temp comfortable for them. Also space fireplace setup takes at a corner vs space for a propane set up.
Propane is easy and clean. I find even with my heater on minimum, it gets turned on and off during night because it gets to hot (this was in minus 4).
With drafts of a tent, carbon dioxide and monoxide are not an issue but do bring a battery operated detector.
With propane, moisture is an issue. after a few days, your pillow, blanket and clothes will be damp. I use a battery operated fan to run constantly.

Tips and advice: did you think about flooring? I use rubber utility mats, the ones full of drain holes. Some use pieces of plywood, foam mats or buy a bail of straw and toss evenly on the floor. The 3'x3' utility mats from Rona with the holes are perfect. About $34 regular price and may get lucky getting on sale during the year if you had started shopping earlier.

[Ata83]

I tented for hunting in protector tent with wood fire place and in ice hut with propane for heat.
While hunting, I much prefer propane heating. With fire place, the smell of smoke quickly gets into all your closes and skin and everything you brought, no scent control. Then there is weight and space of bringing wood, or wasting hunting time and sweating to cut wood.
There is also the ups and downs of heat control with wood. The Fire Chief always seams to sleep closest or farthest from fire place and make temp comfortable for them. Also space fireplace setup takes at a corner vs space for a propane set up.
Propane is easy and clean. I find even with my heater on minimum, it gets turned on and off during night because it gets to hot (this was in minus 4).
With drafts of a tent, carbon dioxide and monoxide are not an issue but do bring a battery operated detector.
With propane, moisture is an issue. after a few days, your pillow, blanket and clothes will be damp. I use a battery operated fan to run constantly.

Tips and advice: did you think about flooring? I use rubber utility mats, the ones full of drain holes. Some use pieces of plywood, foam mats or buy a bail of straw and toss evenly on the floor. The 3'x3' utility mats from Rona with the holes are perfect. About $34 regular price and may get lucky getting on sale during the year if you had started shopping earlier.

Cool info, thanks, exactly what I was thinking just now about wood and wood burners.

I do have good quality fans for ice fishing set up, always run them with propane heater.
what tent did you use though ? regular 4 season ? or ice hut type ?

I have those Foam tiles, 2x2 which they use for kids to play on ... locks into one another. was planning on using those to insulate the floor.
I also have good quality sleeping bags, and got portable bed, to raise me off the cold ground.

[rick_iles]

I tented for hunting in protector tent with wood fire place and in ice hut with propane for heat.
While hunting, I much prefer propane heating. With fire place, the smell of smoke quickly gets into all your closes and skin and everything you brought, no scent control. Then there is weight and space of bringing wood, or wasting hunting time and sweating to cut wood.
There is also the ups and downs of heat control with wood. The Fire Chief always seams to sleep closest or farthest from fire place and make temp comfortable for them. Also space fireplace setup takes at a corner vs space for a propane set up.
Propane is easy and clean. I find even with my heater on minimum, it gets turned on and off during night because it gets to hot (this was in minus 4).
With drafts of a tent, carbon dioxide and monoxide are not an issue but do bring a battery operated detector.
With propane, moisture is an issue. after a few days, your pillow, blanket and clothes will be damp. I use a battery operated fan to run constantly.

Tips and advice: did you think about flooring? I use rubber utility mats, the ones full of drain holes. Some use pieces of plywood, foam mats or buy a bail of straw and toss evenly on the floor. The 3'x3' utility mats from Rona with the holes are perfect. About $34 regular price and may get lucky getting on sale during the year if you had started shopping earlier.

One of those blue tarps work good in the floor. Stops a lot of moisture coming up from the wet ground….

[Deer Hunter]

The thing about propane is the condensation on the walls of the tent. For many years, I used to camp out for moose. Essentially, we built a small cabin and used vapour barrier, poly tarps, and plywood for walls and roofs. Minimal lumber used. Heated it with a homemade barrel stove. Those were the days!
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Great set up and pics. I used up many pairs of Vikings in my days also.
We had a similar set up for Moose but would build it against a small camper trailer we used for sleeping. Nice Moose

[Sam Menard]

[QUOTE=Ata83;1174742]
I dont think We are allowed to make a wall tent like Sam's on crown around here, but thats a very cool Idea also, can set it up and take it down fast it appears.

Yes, you are allowed to build it as its considered to be a camping unit which you can leave on Crown land for 21 days,