I put up a stand for me last week, and brushed in a blind yesterday to hunt with my 7 year old grandson after school in the evening.

A couple different stands. Tom

View from his blind.

One of my favorites, especially with snow

I'm getting a bad feeling about this hunting area...

Dark but best I had.

This was taken a few years ago. The woods can be a sight to behold!

Here's the view from my stand. Trying 3 pics at once. Oaks, Hickory's and my 59 Kodiak. Just waiting. Acorns are really coming down fast now.

Another pic

I got a crook in my neck now from lookin at those. 8^).

I have many since I hunt from the ground, but here is one on our mountain farm.

OK, 3 at once didn't work. So here's an Oak and my 59.

Here's another Oak and I'm in a big Hickory. Can't wait to get in there tomorrow evening.

That's a great pic Fuzzy. Hope you made the proper response.

a few from last fall. Waiting til mid Oct to hunt this year again. That pic was Oct 28 last year. Killed a 7 pointer that day

First pic was looking north. This is looking south. Wind was NE blowing my sent to the corner of the field. Deer came from left. shot him just as he was turning from the corn to come up the trail at 17 yrds. should have shot a hair earlier or waited. I was worried if I waited the angle would be too steep under me where the trail came. turned out ok as I found him the next day but wish I would have made a cleaner kill on him. Felt bad I put him through a last long night.

northern Wisconsin last year during the rut. Had an 8 pointer and 10 pointer come by this spot but I was in a tree 30 yrds south those days. This day I was ready and they didn't show.

I actually had the 10 pointer at about 15 yrds from the other stand a few days earlier. I had to bend low and find a window through some oak limbs as he was behind the stand. I drew on him as he steeped into the opening but saw a few small saplings in the sight picture and let down.

Very cool thread...It is like being there in the woods...Thanks Guys for the View!

This is my open side - thick behind me, which they have been known to go though

Behind me

My view Sat. a.m.

I had 7 students and countless friends shooting one of the biggest archery tournaments of the year just 50 miles East of that spot, all wondering why I wasn't there. ha, ha. :D

A man has to pay homage to his roots from time to time. ;)

This was the view from my stand in August. I have not hunted out of it yet . I just got the property this spring. Friday will be the first hunt.

Pic from my favorite stand...

Same stand....

Dang pictures...

From one of my stands opening weekend

a few razorheads have taken flight from here!

This is the view to the East of my most productive stand. Behind me (to my left when sitting) is a finger of timber with a big trail coming out. The grass is a ditch that runs about 300 yards out into crop fields, so I'm actually surrounded by crop fields. There is a good sized creek and bottom ground to the N/NW...

this one is one is in the pines in Missouri, mostly oaks here, but this patch of pine has always produced.

A view from my favorite stand...hunting from the ground! :)

The fewer times I do hunt from a tree this is my favorite. I call it the "pine knob" stand.

grey rider, that was a pretty nice buck under you. you passed on him or didn't have a shot?

I'll give images one more try.

West

North

South

Looking back at the stand.

S. Troll. Nice pic. Nice bow, but you're quiver is mounted wrong. If you put it on right, you won't need all that tape. The Bear spring arms are great quivers.

Those are from my ground blind in the Boundary Waters. Not many deer and even less people...just the way I like it.

This one is near my cabin on the St. Croix River...very pretty spot on the ground again, but hard to hear them approaching with the moving water. Too pretty to move though!

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Please remind me. Is it that I have to open this site in Explorer instead of Google Chrome; or open Photobucket in Explorer instead of Google Chrome and paste the HTML? I thought it was the latter but that doesn't appear to be working.

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Please remind me. Is it that I have to open this site in Explorer instead of Google Chrome; or open Photobucket in Explorer instead of Google Chrome and paste the HTML? I thought it was the latter but that doesn't appear to be working.

Sitting in my stand passing on a little fork horn. Tomorrow is open season in IL. Can't wait to sit back there

Opening am in wi. Not my best stand but thats a nice 8 pointer beyond my shrew.

Opening am in wi. Not my best stand but thats a nice 8 pointer beyond my shrew.

stagetek.....you beat me to the bow quiver thing! I gave up trying to 'explain to people how to mount them correctly! Same people that complain they slip or are noisy!

They don 't really work well on a 59 anyway as the limbs are narrower. They were designed for the later bows with wider limbs!

Bear stand in Newfoundland. Note the absence of bears ;-)

Opening morning in NY. Overcast and 57 degrees.

George how in the world do yet drawn on those wiley Pa bucks in the open like that.

One of the views....in the heart of old oaks.

Your dirt looks soft. Mine is more of the solid nature. Sure do miss soft dirt.

Well, that didn't come out well... it's sideways.

Oklahoma season opened this morning. View from behind my stand. Eufaula Lake WMA.

Got blood on arrow at 8:15 Am. Waited long hour. 30 yard recovery of doe with Sanick Sage 45# full length GT 3555 Bear broadhead. 494 gr.

spent some long days in this one, mostly late season. It was below zero in the morning, warmed up to a balmy 15 in the afternoon.

look kinda close there Larry. Do you both shoot at the same time ;0

Here is one from NC last Dec

Michigan opener eve. I'm on the ground in the thick stuff. Saw a big bodied deer 45 before dark but couldn't see his head.

Thanks for the thread & pics guy's. Oct. 1st is a tuff day for me, Michigan archery opener.....I miss tree's... so for now stuck in the AZ. desert. John

Juneau , those deer in WV would pick him up in a heart beat.

foggy morning from my favorite stand

One of my spots.

Another.

Another.

From my ground blind.

Another ground blind.

Front

To the left

Behind me. Those were taken this morning. As I was climbing up, a deer came in downwind behind me and blew and ran off. Scared me half to death.

I like the looks of that one BB!

My current stand view in a cluster of White Oaks that are raining acorns, just inside the field edge on my little farm.

And a deer feeding by the stand just this evening.

Button buck Steve

They always jump over these logs. Right below my stand.

Found this huge elk wallow one morning and put a treestand up that day. Began sitting in it at 4pm the same day...

...2 1/2 hours later I killed this 6pt bull that came in.

You guys and your sideways photos. If you are using your phone, take the photo in the landscape mode, not vertical. If you have it in file sideways, then flip it upright. Most computers have that option in their files.

Great thread! Love the pictures!

Here's another one from last year. Saw sooooo many small deer!

Steve

:-)

Ground blind.

From ladder stand.

here's view from where I was today from natural 2ft "dip" in the ground. no action though :). -ted

Halloween morning. Appropriately eerie fog rolled in on cue:-)

I love these photos but if you post a picture that is anything but right side up, why don't you girls delete those pictures and work to get them so that we don't have to twist our necks into a knot to see your photos.

Surely you guys are better at posting than that. Maybe.

Sorry it posted side ways.

Panoramic

Don't know how it will post

And a selfie like a woman

^ apparently I like to hang sideways in my treestand

I will try again

I just quit

Thanks Wildhog!

Here's a view from the stand I killed my biggest buck ever. Deer was standing behind and between the two leafy oak branches the middle of the picture. Picture was taken 5 minutes after I shot. It was a wonder I was able to hold my cell phone steady.

Possible view to a kill. This is off to the side where they come in from, not the main shooting zone. I've now spent a total of 1/2 hour hunting tree stands in the last 25 years.

Makeshift ground blind when I spent 2 hours in yesterday. I could have killed my limit of squirrels. Had a big lone doe come in behind me at 10 yards and busted me almost immediately. Then, a nice 6pt. came into the open lot, to the right of the notch, but stayed out of range. Another deer, assume an older wiser buck, was crunching around in the woods behind him. He knew better than to come out. Most of the deer come from the far edge of the field between the pines and the aspen in the pic. (in the notch). Have a great rest of the season everyone. Mine takes a two week hiatus in favor of gun elk in WA. Later...

Here is a pick from what I called the Gilagans Island hut in Africa. It was built out of river cane.

Halloween morning. Spooky fog ;-)

Halloween Morning - Out Front. Had a beaver swim the creek below me.

Arvin,

I bet that hut would have stopped a charge from that thing.... bwahahaha.

To the left.

To the right. Don't have a pic of ridge behind me where the 8 pointer walked by.

RedBird in her blind in the pines

Here's a view to the left

here's a view to the right

farther to the right about 70 yds

A nice little swamp, absent of water this year.

A pic from my stand last year as a nice bear walked under me. Armstrong Co. in Pennsylvania.

Here we be, outside of Ubly. Hey that rhymes.

Hmm, here is a better one

All that's missing is the deer! Steve

Well, the drought killed about 1/2 our cedars, so my perch is kinda bare, but have a couple of live oaks to hide behind, 15' up, so good spot. Finally got some rain, (7") last week, so things are greening up!

And a shot from one of our ground blinds.

The lifelike decoys came with it.

How to tell when I have a doe tag....

Just a little far out for me.

Foggy mourning in Iowa

upstate ny earlier this week.

My favorite stand.

First time in this one

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