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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 19, 2013 9:50:24 GMT -5
Old stands…forgotten Sometimes when we are out and about scouting we run across old deer stands. I usually pause and consider who might have erected it and what they saw. Some I think why in the world would he build one here and why so close to the ground? Anyone else do this?   The sad one was the old oak that died. I can vividly recall killing a young buck out of the tree many, many years ago on opening day of the archery seaosn. No stand there just standing on a big limb. I guess every thing has it’s day and age…and everything dies…  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2013 9:58:45 GMT -5
When I see those I figure that if someone went to the trouble to build it there, it must have been for a good reason. I have several stands that are in the shadows of these old relics. It usually pays off!
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Post by deadeer on Oct 19, 2013 10:13:08 GMT -5
When I see those I figure that if someone went to the trouble to build it there, it must have been for a good reason. I have several stands that are in the shadows of these old relics. It usually pays off! Boy, I agree with this one. We have on MANY occasions found this to be the case. Also, farmer/landowner input on deer sightings can go along way since they live and see their ground everyday! Jay |
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Post by featherduster on Oct 19, 2013 10:27:33 GMT -5
That's all the taller their ladder was or they were afraid of heights.
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 19, 2013 11:06:08 GMT -5
That's all the taller their ladder was or they were afraid of heights. LOL...probably so.. back then getting up off the ground was new and different...and exciting No safety belts or harnesses either.. |
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Post by GS1 on Oct 19, 2013 11:34:16 GMT -5
I like seein the old stands. I had the remnants of one next to a tree I hunt out of. I'll have to get a picture. That lone board nailed to a limb has been there since I first hunted the farm 20 years ago.
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Post by 3ptbuck on Oct 19, 2013 12:44:53 GMT -5
I remember years ago climbing a huge persimmon tree with my summit, I don't remember how high but probably close to 20ft. There just above me in the tree to my left were 2 boards nailed to both sides of a Y where I'm guessing at some point there was a board across them. The only thing is this other tree was only maybe 12" across at the base and much narrow than that at the 'stand', narrow enough that a 2x8 would have been plenty wide enough to make a platform between those two boards I saw.
I always wondered what the story was behind that and if it truly was an old stand, who in their right mind would stand on that.
There was another old stand in a huge tree in that woods that my friend and I rebuilt when we were kids. I ended up shooting my first 2 deer with a bow from there. A few years later I ran into a guy that told me he and his buddy had rebuilt it a couple times in the previous 20+yrs and had success but it had been there before even they started hunting the area.
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Post by 3ptbuck on Oct 19, 2013 12:51:01 GMT -5
Oh and that old rebuilt stand is still in that tree, right on the edge of someone's back yard. They've since made a subdivision out of that woods.
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Post by stevein on Oct 19, 2013 17:25:45 GMT -5
I came across one on Crane that was at least 40 feet up. It was within sight of the boundary so I guessed someone snuck in to hunt it. The steps were 2x4 nailed across the trunk.
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Post by piercings4u on Oct 20, 2013 21:53:19 GMT -5
I remember my father putting me in a (permanent) stand when I was young..that's what I started out hunting from and I took all my deer from the same stand for years ...its still there but some of the boards are laying at the base of the tree...that stand was built before I was born and I'm 35 now...that stand is what got me hooked many years ago...thank you dad!
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Post by elmo on Oct 21, 2013 4:52:25 GMT -5
I've got one about 40 yards from one of my stands, and I have shot about 10 deer just past it. The guys that hung these old stands knew where the deer were moving.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Oct 21, 2013 5:35:45 GMT -5
When I first got permission to hunt the farm that I currently hunt the first thing I did was locate the boundaries & then used a topo to start scouting. I found old rotten wooden tree stands after the tree leaves dropped in about every spot that looked promising to me & some that did not look so promising the first hunting season. After inquiring, the farmer told me that an old Kentucky die hard deer hunter had taken many deer on the farm for years before passing away a good while back. That was 5 years ago & I have taken many good deer on this farm. It is obvious that the old Kentucky boy had put down a lot of boot leather as I have on the farm locating & relocating stands thru trial & error. There is one old wooden stand that I told myself for the first 3 years, don't even waste good hunting time to consider hunting the spot. WRONG! It still amazes me that it has been one of the best producers of mature bucks & does for evening hunts only the past 2 years. Thank you & RIP Shorty. I often think about you when I take a deer near one of the old wooden stands that you built with a 10'wooden ladder, pull-ropes, barn spikes, & native lumber.
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Post by boonechaser on Oct 21, 2013 9:36:24 GMT -5
There is one on our property that is at least 40 ft up in a old oak tree along a creek bottom. There is NO WAY I would have climbed into that stand. Wooded boards nailed in for steps and a wooded platform. LOL Whoever put it up was definitely not scared of height's and a risk taker. CRAZY
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Post by swilk on Nov 18, 2013 9:48:07 GMT -5
Been meaning to get a picture of this one for a while .... this guy was nuts. Basically he took a plastic chair and chained it to a tree about 20' up.  |
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Post by mstr2175 on Nov 18, 2013 9:52:02 GMT -5
My buddies uncle put me in a stand 24 feet in the air...scariest thing I have done in a while climbing up this thing. I saw a monster 8 pt at a far distance and he has killed bruisers out of it but I had never seen anyone put a stand up so high...and just tiny pegs that only came out of the tree about an inch long.. I told him next time I'm bringing my climber and finding a tree near by
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Post by swilk on Nov 18, 2013 9:56:27 GMT -5
24' is nothing. I have a buddy who rarely hunts below 30'.
I tell him he needs a red blinking light up that high.
No thank you .... ill stay below 20'.
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Post by mstr2175 on Nov 18, 2013 10:06:00 GMT -5
I will also stay below 20' and it wasn't so much the height but the tiny pegs to climb up there. Very dangerous set up he has
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Post by GS1 on Nov 18, 2013 10:23:15 GMT -5
Sitting here this morning and this thread popped up. Reminded me that I needed to take a picture of what's left of this old stand.  |
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 18, 2013 11:18:15 GMT -5
24' is nothing. I have a buddy who rarely hunts below 30'. I tell him he needs a red blinking light up that high. No thank you .... ill stay below 20'. I've got a buddy like that too. It is an adventure to hunt one of his stands. |
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Post by scrub-buster on Nov 18, 2013 12:22:24 GMT -5
I stalked back a ridge Saturday night to an area I haven't hunted in several years. I worked my way to this old stand. My Dad built it in the mid 80's. I sat in it with him when I killed my first deer. I went on to kill many deer out of that stand and so did my Dad. I decided to sit on a fallen tree just up the hill from the old stand. Shortly before dark a small deer worked its way up the hill and I dropped it at the base of the tree that held it. That hunt was filled with a lot of fond memories of that old stand. I think I'll try to talk my Dad into rebuilding it. He carved his and my moms initials into one of the boards when he built it. I'm going to get that old weathered board down and give it to them at Christmas. I think it would look good hanging in his garage.  |
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