By tradition, American deer hunting camps have been a place exclusively for men.

Robert Wegner, in his superb book “Legendary Deer Camps,” writes, “Yet despite the longstanding involvement of women at Ten Point, women were an aberration at traditionally male-oriented deer camps nationwide.”

Ten Point, or the Ten Point Club, according to Wegner, was one of the most well-known deer hunting camps in Mississippi, if not in the country. “While Ten Point was primarily a male-dominated camp, the presence of so many female deer hunters made the camp unusual. Although they did not vote or reside as official members, women participated in the hunts.”

This was long before the feminist movement took root. With regard to women, much has changed since the days of the Ten Point deer camp along the Yaz

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