Hunt Camp

Interest in hunting has seen a resurgence in recent years, due in part to movements like field to table, wilderness survival tv, the nature connection movement, and more.  Even with increasing public interest, easy access to knowledge through social media, and massive conservation efforts to make hunting more accessible, the barriers to entry remain high. 

It turns out that hunting, like all comprehensive skills, requires functional communities with shared intention. Join the Hunt Camp Village. 

Hunt Camp is a four-day immersion into a community of archery hunters and conservationists. 

Our goals…

• to provide a collaborative multigenerational learning environment that supports beginning and advanced hunters
• dissolve the barriers to becoming a confident field to table hunter
• facilitate connection, improvement, and fun
• help hunters take their next step in whatever direction that may be, towards traditional or self made tackle, towards utilizing more of their harvests, or towards filling the freezer. 

Located in beautiful Southern Indiana on 100 acres of private land surrounded by thousands of acres of National Forest. 

Hunt Camp includes a full tour of the land including comprehensive tracking, ecology and management strategies, elevated and ground setup considerations, full access to hunting land, 1 communal meal a day, and 2 featured presentations a day. 

Topics include…

• scouting and tracking
• archery setups
• clothing and scent management
• licensing and tagging
• shot placement
• trailing
• field dressing and processing
• modern and ancestral conservation
• traditional vs modern

Why-

The extirpation and extinction of the large herbivores and predators from the Eastern Woodlands throughout the 18th and 19th centuries was a tragic loss. Gone were the powerful woodland bison, the abundant eastern elk, and eventually the elusive white-tailed deer.  So too followed the fate of the wolf, bear and mountain lion. Then followed the diminishment of ancestral hunting knowledge passed down for countless generations, the same knowledge that managed the herd and health of the environment for millennia. And the final disappearance, felt more prominently each year, were the rites of passage that revealed each hunter’s place in their human and wildlife communities. 

Let’s not dwell too long in the past, as the 20th and 21st centuries have brought about plenty of reasons for modern hunter/conservationists to be hopeful.  The reintroduction and management of the white-tailed deer remains one of the greatest conservation success stories.  Deer numbers in the Eastern Woodlands now rival or exceed their pre-contact numbers. Their populations are meticulously managed through federal and state departments. Elk and bison have also been reintroduced with humble but ever-increasing populations. Along with these great herbivores comes the critical role they played in the ecosystem as browsers, grazers and prey. Slowly but surely the top predators are returning including the role of humans as apex predators. 

The eastern elk were declared extinct in 1877, the reintroduction has been with hybrids of various herds of western elk. Similarly, the hunting and conservation knowledge that managed this bioregion for millennia is in the midst of a hybridizing and reintroduction period. 

The Deer Camp tradition has been instrumental in this period of rediscovery. Our ‘Hunt Camp’ is modeled in this ancient tradition.  Several features make up a Hunt Camp

They are….

• multigenerational
• occur during an active hunting season
• include mentoring, training and hunting
• require bonfires, food and storytelling
• are so fun you look forward to them all year

Address: Seymore, Southern Indiana

Date: October 2-5, 2025

Cost: $900

Ages: 16 and up

Participants: Open to 10 participants