They’ve bagged several 10-point bucks over the years. They didn’t shoot another deer, but plan to go back. “We consider it to be a really, really good Saturday if we shoot three,” Bill Sloneker said. On Saturday, they bagged four whitetail bucks. The six shared three days together opening weekend. The group consists of Leon, of Monticello two of his sons, Bill, 66, and Lee, 63, of Otsego and three grandsons, Ryan, 39, of Burnsville Nate, 37, of Maple Grove and Aaron, 30, of Ramsey. “I’m going to come up as long as I’m able. Leon has shared many special moments there with his sons and grandsons over the 36 years they’ve had the place. “It was such an easy shot, if I had missed, I would have broken my gun in two,” he quipped. The family patriarch is Sloneker’s dad, Leon, 93, who not only still attends camp, but bagged an 8-point buck on the opener this year. “It’s hard to describe how much it means to us. “It’s a really, really special place” said Sloneker, of Big Lake. And last weekend, on Minnesota’s firearms deer season opener, the place was warm and alive as three generations of Slonekers shared another deer hunting tradition in the treasured old cabin planted among 120 acres of woods and water near Pequot Lakes. It has no electricity, no running water and no beds - just wooden bunks.īut the dwelling brims with memories and meaning for Bill Sloneker and his family. The little, spartan hunting shack was cobbled together with tamarack logs and scrap lumber nearly 50 years ago.
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