WANTED: Your Top 5 Base Camp Tips or Hacks

[Bushwacker44]

Large water bag at camp, fill it up at night and water for the next day is filtered and ready when we wake up. Hate pumping water after getting back to camp at night.
If we are camping at the truck we bring water coolers and filter straight in. Nice having water handy and easy.

 

[Tatortot21]

Keep your “Base Camp” mobile! Be able to tear down and move in a couple of hours max so you are hunting where the animals are. Learned this after 10+ years of hunting the same base camp. Have killed 3x more elk by being mobile vice anchored in one camp.

I second this. Had to do it for the first time last year and with three of us it only took four hours to move and re set up a wall tent 30 miles away in another area. Was still able to go out for an evening hunt.

 

[919]

I’m a big fan of the Nemo Roamer camping pad, firmness is adjustable by adjusting the amount of air inside but it also has foam inside that makes it almost as comfortable as a regular mattress, but folds up easily to a packable size (smaller than a sleeping bag)

Will need to check this out. thanks

 

[Rigo]

Great tips! Thanks for the tips.

 

[Cereal Killer]

Put your gear, and stuff you don’t want to be wet in the morning, underneath a lightweight tarp so the dew doesn’t get to it.

 

[cnelk]

Back on the poop chair topic

This is what I do for base camp.

Dig a hole about 12”+ deep, put the dirt in a pile close by and place the chair over the hole. Keep the shovel at the chair.
Each time someone uses it, sprinkle a dirt in the hole.
Keeps the flies and smell down.
When full, just dig another hole and move the chair

Another tidbit is to put a piece of reflector tape on the back of the chair.
Makes it much easier to find in the dark with a headlamp

 

[HairyScandinavian]

lol that reflector tape on the poop chair definitely shows some serious outdoors experience. I love it!

 

[Conrad101st]

I wouldn’t think people would take me literally when I said shave, I guess I should specify I meant trim! Any cheap clippers work, it’s a rodeo getting the angles though lol. Yea shaving is retarded anywhere near there.

Yep, never shaved my package as that seems grossly excessive and way too metrosexual; but I do use my beard trimmer on my armpits. Makes it a breeze to use deodorant and super easy to wipe down in camp for a nightly whore bath with wet ones.