Useles Billy shot #1184 times at juan dub bird.

[JB0704]

Hand saw, hammer, and nails. No tape measure. That's how a "real" deer stand is bilt.

 

[Whitefeather]

I showed one that was left in a tree on our neighbors property for about 30 years to my son once. It was still there. He wanted to climb up and look at it.

I said leave it to the squirrels to sit on. That way nobody can get hurt.

 

[JB0704]

......I gotta be honest, I wouldn't hunt anymore if that was the conditions for huntin' today.

 

[dang]

Interesting to me the folks who came along after the days of 2 x 4 deer stands, how different they view huntin'. Prolly always had climbers, lock ons, and metal ladders.........where as the rest of us view these contraptions as miracles.

I ain’t old, but I never climbed the first deer stand till I was around 20. My uncle used to stand next to a tree, hed stand there dead still for hours. When he started taking me we’d build little natural blinds and sit on the ground. Miss those days, I plan on doing that more this bow season

 

[JB0704]

I showed one that was left in a tree on our neighbors property for about 30 years to my son once. It was still there. He wanted to climb up and look at it.

I said leave it to the squirrels to sit on. That way nobody can get hurt.

To the bet of my knowledge, the first and only lock on stand I ever owned is still in the tree I put it in. Over the eyars the tree grew around it. Kinda cool, just feed bad for the billy who tried to turn that tree into farwood. He'll find a lotta spikes, chain, and a deer stand buried in there.

 

[Whitefeather]

"welding shop" YAll was all kinda fancy. Crowd I was around was suburban fellers who didn't have a welding torch, or a shop. No camping. Get up on Saturday moring. Drive 3 hours. Hunt. Drive three hours home that evening.

We were visionaries. We figured we could carry our “lock-ons” in and up easier than lumber.
My buddy’s dad had a welding shop so our material was mostly scrap.

 

[JB0704]

I ain’t old, but I never climbed the first deer stand till I was around 20. My uncle used to stand next to a tree, hed stand there dead still for hours. When he started taking me we’d build little natural blinds and sit on the ground. Miss those days, I plan on doing that more this bow season

My first deer wif a bow was sittin' injun style behind a cinder block garage watching an apple tree in an old ladies back yard. That was fun, and before thermacells. I was "hard core" would just let the skeeters chew on my hands. Zero chance of me doing anything of the sort these days.

I do like sitting on the ground, though. Was too fidgety as a young'n, but these days I enjoy it a good bit much.

 

[JB0704]

When I Was a kid the old folks didn't sit with the kids cause the kids would rurn they hunts n run oft the deers.

 

[JB0704]

PAss the safety course, buy yourself a gun, and then you can tag along.

 

[dang]

My first deer wif a bow was sittin' injun style behind a cinder block garage watching an apple tree in an old ladies back yard. That was fun, and before thermacells. I was "hard core" would just let the skeeters chew on my hands. Zero chance of me doing anything of the sort these days.

I do like sitting on the ground, though. Was too fidgety as a young'n, but these days I enjoy it a good bit much.

I think there’s some freedom in goin in with a knife and a weapon. I enjoy the style of hunting and the hunter I’ve developed into but this year I plan on going back to the basics. Kinda a way of continuing to test myself

 

[dang]

I got close on the ground a few times last year, and *gasp* passed …on a few hogs at very close ranges with the bow….definitely a learning curve I gotta break through

 

[kmckinnie]

Very interesting ?

 

[JB0704]

I think there’s some freedom in goin in with a knife and a weapon. I enjoy the style of hunting and the hunter I’ve developed into but this year I plan on going back to the basics. Kinda a way of continuing to test myself

One of my favorite things to do is hike into an area I've never seen with a cliber on my back. In some ways it's kinda lazy because there isn't a lotta "pre-work" put into killin' the deer, just some thoughtful review of a map........but to me, it's way more rewarding than shooting a deer off a foodplot which requires a lotta pre-work.

 

[dang]

One of my favorite things to do is hike into an area I've never seen with a cliber on my back. In some ways it's kinda lazy because there isn't a lotta "pre-work" put into killin' the deer, just some thoughtful review of a map........but to me, it's way more rewarding than shooting a deer off a foodplot which requires a lotta pre-work.

Yea, I’m with you. I like to ramble my way into deer kills. I ain’t never really had a place to hunt with food plots and all that. This year the club I got in got all that fancy stuff. I tried to plant one last season behind the house just cause but it flopped hard.

 

[dang]

Will be nice fer a quick convenient after work hunt n such

 

[JB0704]

Yea, I’m with you. I like to ramble my way into deer kills. I ain’t never really had a place to hunt with food plots and all that. This year the club I got in got all that fancy stuff. I tried to plant one last season behind the house just cause but it flopped hard.

Two of my biggest bucks were while I was ramblin through the woods lookin' for the next best thing. I was just lucky in both cases, but, the urge to see something different and new is why I was there when the deer was there.

 

[JB0704]

Problem wif my place here is the deers are vampires. Think the injun haints have em spooked. Only come out at night.

 

[Hooked On Quack]

pfffffffffffffffffft, Pooh by.

 

[JB0704]

As far as foodpllots go, I have 5 acres of corn out there. It brings the deer from far n wide.......at night.

 

[dang]

As far as foodpllots go, I have 5 acres of corn out there. It brings the deer from far n wide.......at night.

lack of cover?