Views from the stand

[sticknstring]

Great shots guys. jnorm - what a gorgeous spot to sit, I can see why it's your favorite stand.

[matchset]

me and my Z7

Success! rage 2 blade did the trick! she bounded twice, and piled up in less than 10 yards.

[Archerysniper]

This was a pic from the stand tonight a clover patch between two creeks that pinch them down in a funnel.

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This is were the deer was standing tonight when I shot it right in that little bare spot at 12 yards

[Farley]

This is the stand I have on a wooded point with a cornfield to the west and a swamp to the east\north. Mostly used for gun hunting though.

View to the south:

View to the north:

View to the east:

View to the west:

[bottom-bouncer]

I took a few pics this weekend from a couple of the stands I sat. the first two pics are from the same stand and the third is from another.

[Andrew Erickson]

awesome lookin photos

bottom-bouncer- im nates friend andrew from school. You have a good lookin area

[rbs]

Pic from my fav stand to the south

Pic from the same stand to the north

Pic of just below my stand, sorry so fuzzy it is from my phone

Ha...didn't notice but she has her nose sniffing the rattling horns I forgot in the tree from the previous year that were basically stumps after the tree rats were done with them

[maddowg1192000]

[sticknstring]

Nice panoramic - reminds me of the stand I killed my first deer with the bow from in Crosslake - staging area with the field out in front. I've still got a treestep way up in that tree. Thanks for the memories!

[surewood]

Stand from December 2009.

[walleye365]

Nice!

[mnhunter79]

Brrrrrr, cool veiw tho.

[bottom-bouncer]

Here is few from another set I have this is the same set that last year I missed 140" 8 point had a 180 class come into the horns and couldnt get a shot and had a 150" 10 come in the next day decided to let him walk in hopes of the 180" coming back(never happened)

[jwhawkridge]

Passed on her, had two small baby bucks with her. If one hadn't suckled I would have taken her. I was a perfect setup: they came in with the wind and I had the tree between me and them. 10 yards!!! Would have been so easy!!! Oh well, I didn't want to kill three of them!

[paceman]

Cool Photos!

[Coach1310]

great photos all...

bottom-bouncer.... where are you hunting a monster bucks video?? I'd take ONE sighting of a buck that caliber in my car, vs. 3 of them on stand in one year!! Good luck with them....

[harvey lee]

Jw, looks like she had you pegged.

[bottom-bouncer]

great photos all...

bottom-bouncer.... where are you hunting a monster bucks video?? I'd take ONE sighting of a buck that caliber in my car, vs. 3 of them on stand in one year!! Good luck with them....

No its not a video it actually a very small piece of public ground but it is the funnel that they are forced into due to incredibly steep terrain and a river.

[Coach1310]

well... if you ever need help guarding the funnel, let me know..... great to hear there are still public pieces out there holding good bucks!!

[sticknstring]

This is the view I had when I shot my buck 3 weeks ago. He angled towards me from the NW of the picture, hit the trail and walked east. I shot him where the mock scrape is and he took off through the area in the 2nd picture.

[bigbucks]

Stand fully equipped while watching the shooting lanes.

Left side shooting lane running to the SE from my gun stand.

Right side shooting lane running to the SW from my gun stand.

Better view of the SE lanes

Tools of the trade, plus some orange for the occasion.

[bigbucks]

Last years bow buck stood right there in that opening.

He came along that brush pile & cross the fence by that black trunked Maple tree.

This is the other lane to the West where I could have shot a young 6 point a while before the 11 came through.

This is what the big guy looked like the Friday morning before gun season as I walked up to him. Results of a successful stand setup.

[Bran32]

Very Nice Pics

[mrklean]

cool pics guys

[Meat-Run]

nice story with pictures thanks for sharing them.

mr

[gr8icefishinmind]

Views from a couple stands of mine!! This is from a tree line i am set up in overlooking a first year clover patch that was recently cut followed by about 40 acres of millet and crp (native grass) on both sides!

This from a heavily wooded area that we cut somewhat of a runway through! Lookin south!

And back north!

[jwhawkridge]

harvey lee - believe it or not, she didn't. She just happened to be looking that way in the pic. They just walked off, not spooked at all.

[SartellMN]

How high are some of these stands? I don't have the stones to go above 15-16 feet.

[bigbucks]

The gun stand in my one sequence is about 16' but it's at the top of a ridge that drops off quickly. The bottom of my shooting lanes are close to 30' lower. Don't get seen up there too often, once I think, that was because I was ignoring this doe to shoot at a different deer. It's very difficult to tell how big or small one deer is down in those lanes. They all look short.

The bow stand views in the other sequence is about 18'. I got spotted, I think by the same buck while at full draw, in the same tree the year before, so when I rehung the stand & I went up about 3'. Not sure if that made the difference or if my luck was just better...

[Dark Cloud]

Here is a picture of my shaddow from 20ft up(right in the center of pict) from this evenings bowhunt. Shot a doe about 30 minures later...