Missoula is 10 hours from me. You are welcome to come out to 2018 Turkey Camp. We'll be free camping on Black Hills National Forest land with no running water, electricity, or comfort plumbing. Fetch along a bedroll or sleeping bag, a tent (or mooch space with someone if you can stand their snoring), and a set of eating utensils. I bring the camp kitchen and do all the cooking. Nobody has complained much yet, except that one jack hole that whined that I shoulda warned him there was gonna be pie so's he coulda saved room. But he shut up when I put him down to bed with his binky, the crybaby.
We skipped last year (sore spot with me and I don't wanna talk about that whole flustercluck), but we'll be back at the spot we were two years ago. It's west of the Crazy Horse Monument if you wanna scan some aerial maps for the lay of the land. Rolling hills with mixed stands of pine and open meadows. There were three turkey roosts within half a mile of camp, we had elk and deer tracks in the trail 20 yards from the kitchen one morning, and one afternoon after a huge lunch and persons were half asleep and loafing, we had a flock of turkey (all hens) come within a bowshot of camp.
If you want to hunt, out of state tags are $100. Camp cost is just your share of the groceries. I buy in bulk, watch for sales, and cook from scratch, so per person for the 5 days it is typically $35-40. You are required to buy your own beverages, however, this year I will be brewing a batch of Caribou Slobber, an American brown ale. Expect to show proper I.D.
Based on the signed affadavits of Primitive Tim (former attendee of turkey camp) and Ryan Gill (hopefully future attendee of camp), GoatPro is invited, too! Feel free to bring your goats, too. Except the sleeve eating reprobate (Elvis?), there have to be SOME standards, after all.
