A DEER CAMP in America's BIGGEST SWAMP | Hunting Deer with Dogs 

Gee, thanks for taking me back to my beginning of deer hunting (1965). Since my father died when I was 7, I never was taught much about firearms or deer hunting until I got to hunt with a friend of mine at a deer camp in the Ouachita Mts. in Arkansas. The men at the camp ranged anywhere from their mid 40's to their 80's. I learned a lot about deer hunting through them, and I also learned how to spin tall tales, cuss, play poker, and freeze your rear off without complaining. IT WAS GREAT!

Any hunting or fishing camp always seems to be about friendship and food. There are some great memories made and stories told and luckily I can say I have been part of both. The Atchafalaya Basin is definitely a national treasure.

WOW!!!! What memories this video brings back... a huge THANK YOU Jared for sharing a LA tradition with everyone!!!!

That's how I started deer hunting back in the 60s as a young boy. Loved it

Some of my first deer hunts were with dogs. We didn't have tracking collars for the dogs so often times we hunted deer for 2 hours and dogs for 2 days! I transitioned from a dog hunter to a still hunter then to a Traditional Bowhunter! Bowhunting teaches you so much more about deer since you spend so much more watching deer than shooting deer! Great Times!

Brings back memories. I was born and raise in South Louisiana. Still live there but now I hunt on land I own in Mississippi but I sure cherish my days of hunting the swamps.

Good one Jared! A non hunter will never understand “the hunt”. Your friend summed it up best, he doesn’t need to kill a deer, he enjoys listening to his dogs.Watching a retriever or pointer work is a beautiful thing to see!

I think it's the freedom of the swamp. You can just relax and be yourself. No judgement!! Everyone looks after ya. Makes sure you got a plate, a cold beer, a warm place to sleep. You'll want for nothing. Just good clean fun with great Americans!!

Yes sir, love the sound of the hound Old school for sure!! remember those days well!!!❤

I love it all about family and friends and making sure the young ones are there to keep the tradition rolling along that’s for taking us along

For me, it was the Panama Hunting club, which is now primarily the Maurepas Wildlife Managements area. Great Video

I grew up hunting deer with hounds in Northeast Mississippi. It’s a long standing way to hunt in the Deep South. Have not dog hunted in several years, but its still very active here. I enjoy setting in my tree stand and hear a pack chasing one in the distance.

Awesome video. I hunted deer with dogs in North Carolina years ago. What an experience. I'd love to do it again.

Thank you. My Dad and I were members of the Indian Bayou Hunting Club 50 years ago where my face was first blooded. Also 2 shirt backs. ❤

Virginia dog hunter here. Awesome video of how deer camp should be! Keep them runnin!!!

I live in Oregon but the people are the same when they enjoy the true American pastime of hunting and family Thanks for sharing

I have lived long enough to realize that I never really fully appreciated what I had when I had it. What you are getting to experience is more valuable than money and more important than power. Friendship, brotherhood and good food. Thank you GOD for all your blessings.

Good job everyone !!! Appreciate y'all for sharing . C u next week 🤠

Love the tradition...hang on to it!

First deer hunt I ever went on in the ‘50’s was in the river swamps North of Mobile. They used dogs and I missed a really big buck. I got a good shot but it was a shot gun only club hunt. Needless to say my Dad’s Browning Auto 5 and 00 buck did not get ‘er done. Those boys will remember those hunts all their lives!😊

Great vid. A lot of us grew up hunting this way…thanks for sharing

Brings back lots of memories. I hunted the basin and all around it. We did man drives. I got my first deer on a drive.

Great video love seeing you show the heritage! But I grew up where dogs are not allowed to run deer so I personally still don't agree with it. But it's your heritage and up bringing and I still like the video and like to learn about different cultures

Looks like great fun. I've only seen the Atchafalaya from the I-10 causeway. I stopped at a rest stop where they had a visitor center telling all about the swamp and the construction of the interstate through it. There was a really pretty young woman in there who was a naturalist or something with the State and was redoing and up keeping the displays. Free awesome Community coffee there as well. I spent close to an hour there. I have dogged deer before though. Got invited to the oldest deer club in Alabama called Dollarhide. One morning they held drives with dogs. Was not sure I was going to like it...or even approve! But man it was super exciting and extremely interesting. Man, deer running away from the approach of the dogs....deer running towards the dogs trying to get through the drivers...and deer doing the stealth approach. Rules were no does and bucks of six points or better. I guess I saw an over six pointer slink by who had three points up but I couldn't see the other side and a lot of deer there don't have the brow tines. He slunk by quick and then just disappeared into thin air like a savvy buck will do. Would love to hunt that way again. Cost me 93 dollars though...you see I'd only hunted bird with a plug in my pump 12ga....never deer...but the guy who invited me said you didn't have to have a plug in for deer and had me take it out and load 5 rounds. Well I forgot to put it back in and went dove hunting in Georgia in September almost a year later. I loaded two and chambered one and then put the third one in the tube. Checked to make sure the youth 1100 20ga I'd borrowed for my son had a plug but never checked mine because I'd only ever hunted birds and it was always plugged. A female Fed ranger ticketed me after I think the male ranger was going to just warn me. Then the female walked off and the guy said...you can continue hunting and just cut a stick off that bush you are sitting next to and use it for a plug. I told him I knew that and could have done it...and likely would have done it...if I'd remembered it wasn't in there, during the almost thirty minutes while I watched you guys checking the end and far side of the field. I've been so religiously aboveboard when it comes to following the regs that it kind of pissed me off!

Back when I was a boy hunting with dogs is all we knew. Great video. It sure brought back great memories.

Man I'm in my early 30s. I haven't heard a horn blown like that in 20 + yrs. Gave me goose bumps and brought back many many memories.

Awesome video, it bought back many memories of hunting with my dad at the hunting camp. He loved to rabbit hunt with dogs and when I hear hunting dogs 'running' after their game, it is like music to my ears. The Black and Tan dog was doing his thing and pushing those deer, he deserved that pork chop.

Fantastic video Jared! You hit deer camp perfectly. Brought back some great old memories

Some of my best memories as a kid were from deer camp in east Tx out by Caddo Lake with my dad, uncles, cousins and grandpa.

Good friends, good hunt and good times. Life don't come any better than that. That's the good life. God bless.

Thanks for a weekend at Hunting Camp! Looks like a good time 😊, JO JO IN VT 💞💨❄️⛄

Good friends, family, fun, deer is just a bonus, enjoyed it guys.

wow what a amazing time that would be!! Thank you for sharing this

Another great video thanks for sharing again 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Great video, I have never dog hunted before but it looks fun.

Awesome video. Keep displaying our Southern heritage, culture!

Man I would love to hunt down there with the dogs! Enough of a difference from Virginia that it would be a great experience. Plus I miss my days of coming down to Louisiana and visiting customers! People are amazing and friendly down there!

Nothing like a deer camp. I bet there is some good squirrel hunting and fishing in that area. Great video, Thanks

Wow!! No wonder y’all are so skinny 🤣😂!!! Wish I could experience it too!!

That was some great looking food. Love seeing dogs work!

Man I miss this! Awesome video!

Good video. Showing the old way. Beautiful setting.

Man, I sure miss hearing the hounds on a scent! Those were some great times with the New Sarpy Deer Club! We had 3,000 acres in the Maurepas Swamp. 2,000 of the acres became a Management Area around 2001 or so, and the last 1,000 acres we lost the lease to a couple of lawyers in 2005.

Awesome video man, I grew up hunting with dogs over on the north shore. We didn’t set foot in a deer stand until we moved to Texas. Memories hunting with my Dad and my Uncles that I will no doubt see clearly for the rest of my life!

Again nothing better than hanging out with ya mates, Cheers from North Queensland Australia. Where we peel prawns. Great video Thanks

Wow that's a lot of bunk beds in da camp........shrimp stew with eggs looked REAL GOOD

I've watched this twice I really enjoy it, it reminds me of deer camp in Northern, Maine. I hope you make another derr camp video this year.

That's living the life would love to try that looks like fun. Looked like that area would be some good crawfishing all up in their.

Lots of fun and friends and family. Good times and Good Eating!

Looks good.

Love deer camp

These are some really well done and interesting videos you are producing here.

Awesome deer camp!! 🦌 👍🏻

All I can say is, great video!!

Now that's my style of hunting!!!!

Great video! No place like the deer camp.

Awesome camp

Very interesting techniques, a lot different from me walking into my Ohio woods, picking a spot and waiting. Awesome video.

Great video! Learned a lot.

That's pretty cool. I'd love to bring a truck load down there and experience it 1 time. It's way different from the way we do it here in NC.

Great video!!! Well done!! We run dogs about an hour East of there!

This looks soooo friggin fun!!! I can see why it's been done for decades!! I went on my first dog hunt this year here in central Florida. It's so dang exciting!!

Dogs are great help to hunters!

This is awesome. Good stuff!

Hound hunting is a part of all of our history. Embrace it

Great video I really enjoyed that!

Deer camps are fading I plan on having one with my boys as long as I can

This is how we do it too on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. We also have a houseboat for our deer camp. Man Id like to see more of these. My pawpaw started our club back in the early 60s. He and my daddy both passed but we carrying on the tradition for as long as they keep letting us.

Banger!

Love the video.

Man this was good!

Love it !!

I live in Warren Arkansas, a great place to deer, hog, rabbit, and racoon hunting.. I really like this video, but please wash the meat before cooking it. You have no idea of the hands and care of the cutting machines to trust not rinsing the meat before preparing....The only meat you can't rinse is ground meat..Thanks again for this great video

Great video

Good living here 👍🏿

Russell blowing that horn. Get um cuz

The videos are getting evern better I liked the story's they told us

I miss being in the lease. I hunted every one of those stand lines. Brought back some good memories. Killed my first deer a 3 point buck while hunting there. Russel drove the dogs and the deer to me. Great times. Blood bath and all!

We run dogs in eastern NC. I grew up doing it and hope it never goes away. Nothing like it.

I'm 71 yo and loved hearing the dogs run when growing up and hunting in Arkansas and the Mississippi delta on both sides of the river in Mississippi. I also never have to kill another deer because it's about fellowship and teaching the younger ones the value of what they are experiencing. Do you by any chance take on any new members? Gotta ask. LOL

I’ve hunted all over and killed allot of deer but running dogs in kisatchie in north Louisiana was by farrrr my favorite memories. I’ll never forget those old men dad and the sounds of those dogs.

i only wish this one was a longer video, but can't let the camera and editing get in the way of an important hunt like that.

Sure do miss those days in East Texas. They stopped our heritage.

You guys are Hunting in DC ??? Thats the biggest swamp i know of

A good song

I don’t necessarily agree with deer hunting with dogs but nonetheless I think it’s awesome you made a video showing all parts

Jared great video! Please, please, please give us some more videos of the dog hunting. I grew up hunting in the basin in Butte La Rose on what they call the Island and hunted with dogs from 1983 until 1998 and I miss it terribly. Nobody has these videos of dog hunting in the basin. I would love to get back into a hunting club that runs dogs. You would not by any chance be looking for members?

Hello great video. Love watching your videos. Keep them awesome videos coming. Im getting married in July this year could i get a shout out on your next video

Man I love that cabin I want to build one over in my north pasture only I want a 2 story cabin with a walk out on balcony for overseeing my pasture in

Is there alot of squirrels id like to come down and squirrel hunt guys id go opposite of you all I'm in western North Carolina some flat land would be nice this is awsome guys

One of the main things I miss about moving north and commercialization of hunting. My kids literally have no idea how it used to be. Now unless you hunt overcrowded public, know someone, or have $$$ you are shite out of luck. The "family" isn't there any more. It's sad.

I almost like the food and comradery than I do the deer hunting!!

Southern tradition running hounds

You guys ever encountered a rou garou ?

Good times and brings back good memories but….bro that chicken wing needed to stay on the fire a little longer. Pink is for beef.

Oh mamma, a 250 on that flatboat must get it cookin'

Loved running deer with dogs in mississippi. Why all the store bought meat at hunting camp?

All of that for 2 days hunting and nothing shot to take home. Time at camp is always good but I'd rather hunt where they have deer. Here is Pa. I shot as many as 3 in one day with a bow and arrow, and no Dogs. Lots of Big Black Bears, just getting to old and after a severe Heart Attack it's time to watch the young ones do the hunting.

I’m a girl but I love hunting with my dad and run them dog in Louisiana where I am from

Cool we're the hogs great 👍 place for hogs.