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East. I need to trim some branches for gun season

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North East. I believe 22 yards to the corn

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North North West.

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South. Had a red fox run the far shoreline tonight.

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View to the north. There's an oak ridge that runs east to west about 50 yards away. Creates a nice funnel to a picked corn field.

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View to the east. 40 yards to the woods edge and 50 yards to the pine plot. Does bed in the pines.

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View to the South.

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View to the West.

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Dark Cloud -

It kinda looks like your in someones back yard.

Yep, my dads 70 acre back yard. cool A few of our stands have mowed areas or food plots. Your looking at a mowed path/area in that pict...

I have some other picts i'll post after work and hunting this evening...

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Here's an interesting rock formation seen from my stand on a recent South Dakota hunt.

Sweet! That must mean we're in for a story with pics, right??? smile I hope so!

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This is from a double-ladder stand I took my wife out to last Friday evening. Need a few hard frosts to knock down some of the vegetation.

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Okay I finally got out hunting. This is one of my Twin Cities stands. The other is about 50 yards away but covers completely different trails. Each stand is setup for a different wind direction

View to the West, swamp (bedding area) beyond the pine trees:

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View to the North, my other stand is about 50 yards away.

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Shooting area, Most deer will either come from the North (left) or SW (right):

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SNS,

it appears your stand is starting to suffer from the same plague (Buckthorn) as the area I hunt in. I know come next spring I will be busy clearing brush.

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Sorry to hear you've got it too. It's terrible stuff. The only good thing is that it provides cover well into the fall. I'm going to try and do some hinge cutting this winter to provide some better bedding cover and keep at it with the food plots. All a guy can do without burning the woods down.

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oh my! Hinge cut buckthorn! Please cut it, and treat the stump with 41% round up. Yes, my pics have some buckthorn in them, too. I wish I would have cut the big ones and treated them with round-up, but didn't know better at the time. Now in the Spring when the ground is soft, or maybe even during a wet stretch of summer I'll be pulling all the small buckthorn. The small ones pull easy enough.

Great pics everyone. Thanks for sharing.

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In the funnel facing north. Swamp is behind the trees. 6 pt made a scrape at 12 yards, middle of picture.

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Facing east, corner of corn field. Lots of scrapes along the edge.

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Facing south

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Facing west

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Okay this is my second Twin Cities stand. I've shot my last two big bucks out of this stand, one with an 18 inch inside spread and the other had a 21.

View to the West:

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View to the North, this is where the buck in my avatar was standing at 22 yards:

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View to the East, where I shot the 18 inch spread at 15 yards:

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I'm 4th generation hunting on this property and the first to actually see a bear. It's not a area where bear are common near Staples, MN.

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facing North. Field edge is 7 yards out.

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West.

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South. Clover and corn food plots in the distance.

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East. This finger of thicket stretches a ways to a larger chunk of woods.

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Here are some pic's from last saturday morning! Hunting next to a small creek!

First picture was the first of 19 deer that showed up in the alfalfa field looking from my ground blind!

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I'm 4th generation hunting on this property and the first to actually see a bear. It's not a area where bear are common near Staples, MN.

Jacob I am not to far away (Brainerd Area) but I can tell you there are a few bears in the area, its just that people never see them. I seem to bump one every other bow season.

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I have a bear from late September on a trail cam south of Motley. The only other bear I've seen was about 6 or 7 years ago in the same area.

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Here is my corn blind and the buck I had at 5 FEET for a long time while sitting on the ground. Sorry the buck pic is so shaky but I was holding onto my bow with the other hand.

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This is from a stand I call old faithful. The creek forces a natural funnel here. This stand has produced many deer sighting for many years.

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A different stand in the same woods. It's a nice morning stand:

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Cool sunrise on Nov 1st from the stand:

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Here is a stand down in the river bottoms:

You can see where the food plots were before the floods...

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This was from a new stand I hung.

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Here is a big doe right below me. The big 8 pointer came in grunting after her so I had to put the camera away:

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