While I do take a lot of pictures in the field, I take very few of or off of stands. When I'm sitting, I hate to move so taking pictures doesn't happen much. Unfortunately, most of my favorite hunting spots are off limits now. In "the old days" where I grew up, everyone hunted everywhere and no one cared as long as it was done respectfully. Now everything is posted and leased so most of my old spots are inaccessible any time of the year. But, I do have a couple of stand/blind pics with results I can share from the lease I was on for seven years.
This one was a huge old oak tree with a large crotch in it that someone previously on the lease had built a very small wood platform and seat on. It was on the edge of a steep hillside and had an old ATV trail going past it that deer liked to travel. In addition, there were trails going up and down the hill that intersected the ATV trail on each side of the stand. The picture from the stand was from a different hunt than when I shot the deer, hence the different guns in the pics...same stand though. Loved the "knot" on the side of the tree for a gun rest.
One morning during late muzzleloader season I had a group of does come up the hill but about 100 yards down the ridge. They worked my way but angled into a thicket above me. But one doe hung a bit lower and only went into the bottom of the thicket coming out on one of the trails going down the hill which was on the other side of the tree. I had to get the 44" barrel off the knot and up and around the tree trunk to get lined up on her at about 25 yards. She made a mad dash down hill on that trail for about 30 yards, then cut 90 degrees left and went around the hillside. Short trail to her. The stand was only about 125 yards from the century old farm house that was on the property we stayed in when there.
I don't have a picture of the stand, but this food plot was heaven to hunt. The stand was in the bigger tree to the right of the big buck.
That little plot was also a great place for turkey. This photo was approximately the view I would have sitting next to a brush pile at one corner of the little plot.
This natural blind was a favorite of mine. I could nestle down into this set of blowdowns in my turkey chair, but peek out between the cracks to see deer coming. Trails were in front, behind, and on the sides of it. One morning at nearly 20 below zero F, a group of does worked their way about 30 yards above the "blind" on the hill side. I had to get turned around, kneel in my chair, and use the blow-down trunk behind me to rest the gun on. My hands almost froze gutting that one!
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