A Hard Days Hunt @ The Rustic Log Cabin Deer Hunting Camp 

Reminds me of sitting around shooting the breeze with my old Navy buddies on a slow watch and just talking about home, food, guns, hunting, fishing, you name it. Very enjoyable after a day at work.

My dad grew up dairy farming and also raised pigs and butchered many animals including game animals. His favorite knife was a small buckknife. I like these videos where you share your hunting experience for the day. The experience of sitting on a stand and getting cold to the bone is all a part of deer hunting. There is a lot to be said for that peace and quiet. Keep the videos coming

Hi Tom, I sure can relate to a few of the things you talked about. Sitting in a deer stand for many hours and freezing, sitting many hours and not seeing anything, getting back to the cabin feels so good after a day outside. One final thing and that is sleeping at the cabin. I love sleeping at my cabin for the same reasons you do. I'm using my new cabin more than I did my old one and love it. I leave my cameras out all year in various locations because I love getting pictures of the wildlife. I hope you and you and your family have a very Merry Christmas

Just a nice evening at the cabin. Spent a week up camp in PA NORTHWOODS ALLEGHENY NATIONAL FOREST. Going back up for flintlock muzzleloader in January. So between time visit you. Thanks for your efforts and taking us along with you.

Thanks Tom, always nice to share the fire with you, I agree with your comments about hunting knives, I’ll stick with my buck 110!

Great content Tom! Thank you!

You have the lighting in your cabin set really well now Tom. Looks great. Yes, coming here to your channel is about like visiting a pal around the kitchen table. Always great content and that's how friends behave. Up there where you are hunting you don't seem to have any hunting pressure from other hunters pushing or even moving deer around the area. That is good and bad is some ways. It often makes it a bit tougher to figure out the movements of the bucks on their own times and routes. Often where I hunt, hunting pressure is something you use to plan bushwhack tactics of deer movement. It can work for you and against you as well. But the most fun way to harvest a buck is to find one on his own movement pattern and surprise him for the last time.

Enjoying your channel. Wasn't able to go "upta camp" this year due to restrictions. 1st time missing deer week in 30 years. So glad I came across your channel.

Good video! Like the content and shooting the breeze! I was raised old school,grew up on a farm,a little different thought process about things,than there is today.I was talking to a guy yesterday about how much hunting has changed over the years since we were young,he thought the same also.

Looking at 14-20inches here today......just started a few minutes ago Tom. Hope you are having a great hunting trip!! I still like my old BUCK the best!! The all purpose razor sharp can do anything knife. Just built a nice fire in the wood stove, have plenty of dry wood and the shovels have been hit with Pam.....bring on the snow ❄️❄️❄️ get a nice Buck as in deer lol !! 🦌 thanks for sharing the cabin and the hunt. 🪵🔥👍🤠👏

A good mug or bowl of chowder would really hit the spot. Hoping Mr Big Buck shows up for you soon. That crackling fire sure sounds good. ❤👍

Hey Tom~ Looking very homey and relaxed. Tried your skillet bread and cabbage/smoked sausage soup! Good stuff. Keep up the good work and don't get "bucky" when you do see that deer! Stay well.

Tom feels like home watch'n ya ! Wishing ya a good evening from west Gardiner !

Nice chat Tom! The rut is kicking in down here, we haven’t seen anything yet, but hopefully soon! Lots of sign and pigs! lol

Wonderful video Tom. I do enjoy them, sure do miss visiting you. But you be making a trip to Alaska. Found a boat need to get it out here to the island.

Here in Ohio where I live and in Pa. where I've deer hunted all of my hunting life, you can't get too many miles from a road, log road or well established trail. Even in the Allegheny National Forest in Pa. or the Wayne National Forest in southern Ohio, that's fairly true. So I don't often get too far from the truck or camp while deer hunting. So I've never had to spend the night out in the woods in an emergency situation. I've long ago cut my hunting necessities down to just the minimal essentials. My knife, folding compass, drag rope, ink pen for filling out my deer tag, hard candy, a few extra shells of ammo and small flashlight. Paper towels for wipes or blood cleaning, etc. Most of my hunting is by still hunting and setting when a good likely spot is found. Rarely on a tree stand. It is getting tougher to go farther now that my knee is getting bad, so I have for the past 6 years or so began carrying a folding stool where I can just sit down and rest anywhere, and my walking stick. It's still a load to carry, but I've killed many deer while I've stopped to rest.

Tom! I myself enjoy this type content. Telling about your hunt and day in the woods goes well for your style channel. I am sure all the viewers could feel at home with your narrative! I am a seafood fan for sure and that chowder sound mighty good! How old is your beagle dog and is he a part of your rabbit pack? One other question is what type of wireless provider do you use in your remote cabin? No hurry on any answer on that. We had one of those propane gridges on a houseboat camp and that thing was thebest thing! A barge smacked our boat and we lost it when it sank. I would get another even for putting on my patio at home.. I am rambling now,so have a great week !

Good Morning Tom ☕ I see you have signs on the wall. Have you ever done a video of what your signs say and some of your background of the wall of your cabin? I'm interested in what all you have there in the signs and how you came about putting them up on the cabin wall. I'd like to know Why I'm not getting notifications that you uploaded a video or are going live. I have the Bell Ringing Chosen and last 3 videos of yours, I just happened to see them suggested when I was watching other videos that I'm subscribed to. I love the background you have to use in your cabin for Videos. Hopefully I can figure out what is up with not getting notifications! Ah, Knives.... They ain't like they used to be! I have a Long Flat Wood stove Poker that I been looking at and thinking about maybe getting a 5gallon bucket or 2 of big Rock Coal and making a big ole fire and heating that poker up and pounding the Hebegebes out of it and make it into a nice Strong Knife 🔪🗡️ that would be able to be used for just about anything, fileting Fish, cutting up deer, squirrels, rabbits and such. Experts..,.Hum.....ya know, I was called a "Professional" by some, I told them all "Ain't No Professional in me, I just do it the way I was taught by my Momma and Daddy and Bother and I'm always learning something new so I ain't No Professional and never expect myself to be 1 for all always be looking to learn more!" Ah, Fish Chowder. I picked up some Monk Fish, Haddock, clams, Dungeness crab clusters and I have Atlantic Puffers vacuum packed that the wife and I caught in ocean City Maryland. I make "Fish Soup" which is basically Fish Chowder but no milk/cream in it, I toss in Tomato sauce and paste to mine. Really Enjoy your videos! Your not rambling, you are just like you say, talking to Friends! If you are interested, check out Daniel's video last night at "Arms Family Homestead" He was doing a video last night of interacting with others and how he has become friends with a lot of different people that he talks with almost daily. Something to keep in mind of what you and Daniel are saying in your video this morning and Daniel's last night. Thanks for your Support and your Videos and Sharing your Way of Life up there in Maine! Keep up the Great Videos and I'll be watching with the ☕ in Hand. Now I gotta finish my ☕ and get my butt outside in the cold, kick the Snowblower a few times to get it Running and get ready for this Blizzard that we are supposed to get today. ☕ Stay Warm and Toasty by the 🔥

hi tom that is not right eating all that fish chowder put a spoon full up to the camera no deer this year the loggers cut down so much i gave up. i couldn't find where the deer was coming to feed so i am looking at new ground closer to home for next year. you are right a small knife is really all that is needed. a medium fixed blade hanging off your belt are ok but is for mostly show.

Hello Tom, did I see you at Hannaford the other day in Houlton?

Now, I have a question for you. As we all want to shoot a big buck, are you averse to taking a doe for the meat? Our state does want us to harvest does from the herds for better buck to doe ratios. Some states regulate the numbers of does that can be taken in a given year. I don't know about Maine. If there is not an over abundance of deer in your area I understand letting all the does walk. I have often went without a deer simply because I chose not to harvest a doe. But, I am not against taking one. They're excellent table fare as well. I'm still waiting for you big buck tale, for this year. Good Luck Tom.

The Maine chowda

I'll stick with my old trusty buck knife lol

Couldn’t you set a few gallons of spring water outside to freeze to use in your coolers for refrigeration? Seasons are over. I hope you were able to connect.

I enjoy your videos, Tom. I have noticed lately that you seem to throw a lot of shade on other content creators in the Bush craft community on RU-vid. I think that i understand where you're coming from, but it can be a little off-putting. I am not a content creator myself, just a casual observer and lifelong lover of the outdoors. Some of those channels are just chasing clout and looking to get views and attract sponsors. Hey, if that's their formula - c'est la vie. Just focus on keep putting out YOUR content based on your formula. All that gear wouldn't be around if there wasn't a demand for it. I understand that a sensible woodsman is resourceful and methodical with their gear and dont need all that and shiny stuff.

Thanks Tom! Another great video.