With the season starting tomorrow, I figure I'd get started with my journal. I was off today. It was a teacher workday for new teachers doing a child abuse seminar. I already know how to abuse kids so I didn't need to go. I spent the morning putting up my final stand. With Kody and Klay running me all over the place with football practices and games, I haven't had the chance to get my last one up until today. It is a new spot for this year, but I am very optimistic. I've hunted this farm off and on the last 6 years and always see a lot of doe. It is also the farm where Kody shot his first buck a few years ago. I have visions of this being a fine rut spot. Only two people are allowed to hunt this farm. My buddy Dave being the other one.
The stand location is on a field edge with a nice panoramic view to the east and south.
The stand itself is 10 yards inside the tree line:
The actual location is a finger lot that runs east-west with a big open field to my right and a smaller field to my upper left. The upper field is like a table top. Nice and flat with lots of bedding all around it. I am 25 yards to the edge of that field with a few small shooting lanes.
The finger lot connects a large hollow that is on the other side of a field full of pines that used to be for a tree farm to a hollow the runs behind me. It is just a great spot for a sneaky buck to slide through.
Here is the view in front of where scrapes have been in the past...
Here is the view of the field to my right. We have had blinds set up and the doe just pour into this field in the evenings. Dave's buddy stand for him and his boy is across the field from the second picture below. He killed a real nice 10 point out of it a few gun seasons ago.
There are usually a few nice ones running around this farm. It gets heavy pressure all around it on the neighboring farms so I'm hoping they stay on this sanctuary.
All in all I have 4 buddy stands set up. 1 on this farm, 2 on the usual property I hunt, and 1 at our club property. I also have a ladder stand with a hang on in the same tree at our usual property to serve as another buddy set up. Finally I have a few single sets on the usual property. I'm hoping to bounce around so as not to overhunt a spot like I have done in the past. We shall see!
The stand location is on a field edge with a nice panoramic view to the east and south.
The stand itself is 10 yards inside the tree line:
The actual location is a finger lot that runs east-west with a big open field to my right and a smaller field to my upper left. The upper field is like a table top. Nice and flat with lots of bedding all around it. I am 25 yards to the edge of that field with a few small shooting lanes.
The finger lot connects a large hollow that is on the other side of a field full of pines that used to be for a tree farm to a hollow the runs behind me. It is just a great spot for a sneaky buck to slide through.
Here is the view in front of where scrapes have been in the past...
Here is the view of the field to my right. We have had blinds set up and the doe just pour into this field in the evenings. Dave's buddy stand for him and his boy is across the field from the second picture below. He killed a real nice 10 point out of it a few gun seasons ago.
There are usually a few nice ones running around this farm. It gets heavy pressure all around it on the neighboring farms so I'm hoping they stay on this sanctuary.
All in all I have 4 buddy stands set up. 1 on this farm, 2 on the usual property I hunt, and 1 at our club property. I also have a ladder stand with a hang on in the same tree at our usual property to serve as another buddy set up. Finally I have a few single sets on the usual property. I'm hoping to bounce around so as not to overhunt a spot like I have done in the past. We shall see!
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