First camp dinner of the season....

[Anonymous]

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[Baby Huey]

Our first dinner at camp is usually rib eye steaks with mashed potatoes, veggies and bread.

 

[elkmtngear]

Gonna be a Mountain House.

I\'m hoping it\'s at like Midnight...that would mean I was very lucky this Year

 

[cohunter14]

That\'s a good point cohunter. I didn\'t really think of that. My archery shooting hours this weekend are about 6am to 8:15pm. That\'s less than 10 hours total between those hours for morning routine, hiking in, hiking out and dinner.

Yeah, ours are roughly 6:30am to 7:00pm, giving us just under 12 hours. Definitely makes a difference.

 

[mtnmutt]

With that being said, what is going to be your first dinner of the hunt?
Do you have a tradition? Something special planned?

I open my food tote containing my packitgourmet meals and I go even \"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe\". Works for picking dodge ball teams and it works for selecting a meal too.

One thing I just thought of is the sunrise and sunset times and how they differ for you archery guys. I just looked and the opener of archery sunrise is 40 minutes earlier than 1st rifle season in Colorado and the sunset is 66 minutes later. That\'s an hour and 46 minutes of extra time we get. That adds up when it comes to making meals, sleeping, etc.

Closing week, I get to sleep in an extra 20 minutes compared to opening week.

Personally, my old eyes can\'t see well past sunset, so I have given up staying out until closing time. If I can\'t see to shoot, I am not staying out. In general, I can see okay out to 20 yards until about 10 minutes after sunset. I hunt in pine forest which gets dark pretty fast. Rain makes it harder to see.

 

[Zpd307]

One thing I just thought of is the sunrise and sunset times and how they differ for you archery guys. I just looked and the opener of archery sunrise is 40 minutes earlier than 1st rifle season in Colorado and the sunset is 66 minutes later. That\'s an hour and 46 minutes of extra time we get. That adds up when it comes to making meals, sleeping, etc.

yeah, there definitely isn\'t much dark time..... roll into camp around 9:30 and try to unwind and eat, while hopefully trying to get atleast 6 hours of sleep. it isn\'t easy...... that\'s why the meals are