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View from the stand
gstoneberg:
Nice pictures!
I hung a new stand yesterday afternoon, about 75 yards away from the feeder where I saw deer walking the previous sit. Here's looking forward:
And here's the view to the left. That little opening in the elm leaves is where the 7 pointer walked through about 10 minutes before I took that picture. Sadly, our county has antler restrictions so he had to have a 13" inside spread and I'm betting he was about 11" wide. He was 2.5 years old too. A shame.
I tried to get a picture of the buck with my camera instead of my cell and it's battery was dead. He was too far away by the time I get the cell phone out and ready to use. Bummer. Also in that picture is a squirrel hole in the big tree on the right. A big fox squirrel sat in there and watched me for awhile. A big owl swooped right by me as it was getting dark. Never heard him coming. If I had known I could have reached out my bow and touched him as he flew by. It was a great night of hunting.
George
H Rhodes:
View from a loc on stand that I put about twelve feet up a pine tree. It is a good spot in a stand of white oak trees. Trails intersect in this prime feeding spot right under the stand. It overlooks a creek and hardwood bottom which gives me some nice scenery while I wait. I have watched hogs and coons feeding in the creek bottom while I was waiting on deer. A busy trail runs between the stand and the edge of the bluff.
Josh B:
I haven't used my treestand for ten years, but here is a couple pics of little spot I hunted from this past weekend. To my left is a mostly dry creek bed that runs through my backyard . There are three spring Fed pools just out of view on the first pic. They are the only water for a mile in any direction. You can see the old deadfall hackberry that I was using for cover in the edge of the pic. To my right is a soybean field that they have been feeding in. There are huge scrapes along the edge of the field. The trail between the field and the water was directly in front of my hide. It looks like a super highway running through there. I had a great weekend of hunting and passed on a lot of deer that i would normally have taken. My wife informed me that as soon as I got my first deer , my hunting would be done for the year. For some reason, no matter how close the deer got, I just couldn't quite get a good enough shot. >:D. Oh well, looks like I'll have to do a little more hunting, don't you just hate it when that happens! Josh
gstoneberg:
Pretty spots guys. My wife stopped saying that Josh because I was doing the same thing, and then later so I would shoot more deer when the kids were home. Now she knows better (and there are hogs) so it's pointless. These days she's scared to death I'll retire and she'll have me around all the time. :)
I was deer hunting Sat night out of that second stand I posted. A big boar walked through the woods behind me. If my stand had been on the other side of the tree I'd have launched an arrow. Unlike with deer, I can't seem to influence those silly hogs with a call to come by a stand. They go where they want and if you aren't close enough that's just the way it goes. Probably just as well, that boar was likely too armored to get an arrow through with that light bow I'm shooting.
George
RabidApache:
I don't have a particular "spot" or stand but I have vast areas to hunt. Very open terrain, Ponderosa forests, Juniper/oak woodlands to thickets of Mtn. mahogeny and oak brush, rugged, and quite frankly beautiful Apache Land. Abundant wildlife from world class Elk, Coues deer, Muleys, Bear, Mtn.Lion, Turkey and many other small game.
A view from my "stand" that day.
Oak and Juniper woodland.
High Desert.
Also High Desert. Pictured is a hunter I guided for Archery Javelina. Can you find the Javie in the Pic?
Juniper woodlands.
Ponderosa Pine forests above 6,000 ft elevation. My favorite pic. Caught this boar while it was digging for termites or possibly getting into a woodpecker/squirrel nest.
Enjoy.
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