looks like I'm working on Labor Day again. already behind on my deer hunting. Got all the gear down from the garage rafters today. I'll get three or four stands up tomorrow, hopefully. work on the rest as fast as I can. I know exactly where most of them are going. I have some choices to make on a couple of other potential set ups.
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Chancegriffis
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Boy Jamie, that's a heck of a arrangement of excellent gear & equipment you've got there!
I'm pretty much all set and patiently waiting. I intend on utilizing my mobile systems often this season, going in midday most often mainly. Totally going for broke this season. The way I see my season this year, either go hard or go home! That's pretty much my plan of attack and wanting to remain flexible while chasing whatever big guy gets my attention.
My hang-ons, believe it or not, will not get burn out this season near my home grounds. Pre-rut is when I hope to have new antlers in hands so, I suppose I have higher than previous two year expectations. It's the way I hunted back 10 years ago or better.
Good luck to you Jamie, although I don't think you'll need it. I'm sure you'll come through once again with another good'en! I look forward to seeing it!
I'm pretty much all set and patiently waiting. I intend on utilizing my mobile systems often this season, going in midday most often mainly. Totally going for broke this season. The way I see my season this year, either go hard or go home! That's pretty much my plan of attack and wanting to remain flexible while chasing whatever big guy gets my attention.
My hang-ons, believe it or not, will not get burn out this season near my home grounds. Pre-rut is when I hope to have new antlers in hands so, I suppose I have higher than previous two year expectations. It's the way I hunted back 10 years ago or better.
Good luck to you Jamie, although I don't think you'll need it. I'm sure you'll come through once again with another good'en! I look forward to seeing it!
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Chancegriffis
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In do time my friend! You’ll get it doneYou Suck...
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Stressless
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Thats interesting @Jamie do you pull all your gear every season? There's two schools on gear left the woods or bringing it in on private property. Be interested to hear your perspective on it.
You have a shitton of good solid work in front of you. I think we're all in some state of flux, last min plot seeding, trimming shooting holes/lanes, hanging stands etc.... I'll have about 36 hours later this week at the farm and have about 30 hour's of work to getrdone before I show up to go hunting. I miss the 15 hour's of daylight in June!
Best of luck to you!
You have a shitton of good solid work in front of you. I think we're all in some state of flux, last min plot seeding, trimming shooting holes/lanes, hanging stands etc.... I'll have about 36 hours later this week at the farm and have about 30 hour's of work to getrdone before I show up to go hunting. I miss the 15 hour's of daylight in June!
Best of luck to you!
You have an Assault II mixed in there that you’d trade for an Alpha II?
I am way behind on preparation too. Not so much in the treestand department but mainly myself personally. I haven’t been doing the amount of shooting that I normally do leading up to deer season. For my treestands, I normally hang and hunt and I take them down each day, unless it’s a spot I plan to dedicate myself to for a few consecutive days. I seem to have better success with this approach. On my prehung sets, I tend to spend more time in them than I should, I think because I have more invested in them. I talk myself into being better spots than what they really are sometimes.
I am way behind on preparation too. Not so much in the treestand department but mainly myself personally. I haven’t been doing the amount of shooting that I normally do leading up to deer season. For my treestands, I normally hang and hunt and I take them down each day, unless it’s a spot I plan to dedicate myself to for a few consecutive days. I seem to have better success with this approach. On my prehung sets, I tend to spend more time in them than I should, I think because I have more invested in them. I talk myself into being better spots than what they really are sometimes.
Stressless, I hunt my own place and one other private property, but I do not ever leave stands or climbing sticks out all year. Weather and squirrels are just too hard on cables, straps and ropes to leave that stuff out indefinitely. I guess for me this is about safety and the longevity of my equipment. I routinely leave screw-in steps in trees that I intend to use again, though. That works for about three seasons before you have to remove them and re-install before the tree starts to eat them. The way that I prefer to hunt requires lots of very close encounters and close shots, so my ambushes, whether in trees or on the ground are going to make me almost invisible if I'm not moving, so habituating deer to my stands isn't anything I'm concerned about. I'm betting on them never noticing them in the first place Tomorrow I'll be hanging two stands in very productive trees that I left steps in last season. easy-peasy. I'm making at least one new set up tomorrow, maybe two if I'm feeling particularly ambitious. best of luck to you, too.
Thanks, Denny, and good luck to you as well.
Sorry, Jim, no Assaults in the flock.
Thanks, Denny, and good luck to you as well.
Sorry, Jim, no Assaults in the flock.
I don't. always have a ground set up some place, but I don't own a full concealment blind, This year, I'll be doing some sitting in standing corn and even some still hunting in the corn while it's up. Reality is that I enjoy treestand hunting and it is far and away the most productive way to kill a deer with a traditional bow in the places I have to hunt. it's that whole drawing the bow right at the moment of truth at close range thing that makes it really difficult to kill them on the ground up close. they see you move pretty easily. Standing corn does open that door a little further, though. I have not actually killed a deer in standing corn, but I've been very close a few times.
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Killing my first deer with the recurve made me realize, hitting the deer in the vitals isn’t the hard part… it’s getting the bow drawn and releasing an arrow.
Killing my first deer with the recurve made me realize, hitting the deer in the vitals isn’t the hard part… it’s getting the bow drawn and releasing an arrow.
Turkey hunted out of one last spring.
The new ones even have it on the windows. So you can really see everything, no blind spots.
The new ones even have it on the windows. So you can really see everything, no blind spots.
I have a Big Mike by Barronette and I can stand and draw a longbow.
I have the same, and have no issues standing in it shooting with my compound. I love the damn thing! I bought it because I wanted to get my FIL out in it because he's a tall dude. Hasn't happened yet, but I keep inviting him. He since retired from hunting about 20+ years ago. His eyesight is the reason mainly why he gave it up.
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Me shooting out the side window with compound of the "Big Mike' in the standing position after I set it up just a few hours prior that afternoon. I took 5 out of the 6 deer last season out of that blind. I really have grown to like hunting out that blind. Never hunted out them prior to buying this one back in 2018.
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this is a pretty good representation of most all of my ambushes. I lowered this stand about three or four feet from where I had it last year and it's about 15 or 16 feet high now. some of stands aren't hidden quite this good, but you make do with whatever there is to work with when you pinpoint the right spot. no deer is going to see me in this stand unless they get a whiff of me first and start looking, or sneak up on me and catch me moving, lol.
this pic was taken from a spot about 15 yards from the tree where a deer will eventually be standing. hopefully standing still eating the white oak acorns so I can shoot it.
I saw 5 different bucks over 140" from this stand last season before the first of November all but one of them the last week of October. two of them were very likely 170" or better. this is a great spot, especially when there are lots of acorns. an oak flat between two bedding areas that I have very easy and quiet access to. I can only hunt it with a straight south or southwest wind, but the wind is very steady and reliable here. only a matter of time before I get a chance at really big buck in this spot.
this pic was taken from a spot about 15 yards from the tree where a deer will eventually be standing. hopefully standing still eating the white oak acorns so I can shoot it.
I saw 5 different bucks over 140" from this stand last season before the first of November all but one of them the last week of October. two of them were very likely 170" or better. this is a great spot, especially when there are lots of acorns. an oak flat between two bedding areas that I have very easy and quiet access to. I can only hunt it with a straight south or southwest wind, but the wind is very steady and reliable here. only a matter of time before I get a chance at really big buck in this spot.
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Big_Holla
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Bowhunter57
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That's one huge investment, in tree stands. 
I don't know of anyone that owns that many, much less puts them all up.
I'll be hunting out of my Cruzr XC tree saddle, this year. So, I guess I could say that all my stands are up.
I'll be enjoying the zero theft factor and a lot lighter payload, while walking into the woods.
Bowhunter57
I don't know of anyone that owns that many, much less puts them all up.I'll be hunting out of my Cruzr XC tree saddle, this year. So, I guess I could say that all my stands are up.
I'll be enjoying the zero theft factor and a lot lighter payload, while walking into the woods.
Bowhunter57
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