From: JusPassin
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I know many like to pooh pooh hunting out of tree stands, but the fact is hunting from above, ambush style is probably about as traditional as you can get.
Before Baker sold his first commercial suicide device nearly everyone I knew had a couple of "stands" where they hunted from trees.
Walk through any old growth timber and you're likely to find remnants of old home made tree stands, some nothing more than a notched 2 x 10 wedged in the crotch of a tree.
My first was a huge old oak that I drove some old drag teeth into to climb up to a huge limb I could sit on.(took 4 deer from it too)
The only safety harness I ever saw was an occasional length or rope wrapped around the waist to keep your balance with.
Use tree stands or don't, each mans call, but hunting from above has been around longer than anyone on this site.
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From: grizz
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Hunting from has been done for hundreds of years. Some who like to "pooh pooh " on it no little of it. Some seem to think that you just go in the woods and skinny up any old tree. Wrong! Obviously you have to be able to read sign and place yourself where the deer will be. I've killed a lot of deer from above and it's not a gimmy . Also taken deer, hogs and javalina from the ground. I like it all but if you don't know how to hunt you will not be successful at any of it.
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From: grizz
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Boy, I'm having a bad spelling day!
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From: TrapperKayak
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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BOX CALL, ever wonder if Karma caught up to them?
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From: RymanCat
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Freak news is worse than fake news and any one who complains about tree stands is a BS artist anyways. killers don't complain or wine they just go out out and kill an animal as they should.
Anyone who says any different no matter how the animal is taken is a BS artist.
Joey that would be you brother Frisky. LOL
Who picks up the lame and hemorrhaged shocked and rank critters off roads.LOL
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From: dean
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I battled the state of Iowa to get a tree stand law for public land. Permanent stands were filling up the woods and the people that owned them thought that is all it took to own a piece of public property. Our law needs to be modified, now the problem is some are putting in many tree stands and stake claiming public land by putting in many stands and once again thinking that no one else can use it because of their claim stake. I am not against using tree stands, but when they are used as a claim stake, they have to go. Stands like the Lone Wolf climbers should be the norm for public land use. In one valley of public land that has a dry creek bed now, there is a tree stand every 40 or so yards all the way up it. The guy that has the ladder at the bottom end, closest to the parking lot, thinks that no one else has a right to walk up the creek bed to hunt above him. The guys that end up down wind of other guys think that the guy that is a bow shot over there has no right to hunt because he is wrecking his hunting. It is a mess, it is time to go to leave no trace and they all need to get stands that they can take out with them when they leave.
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From: JusPassin
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I have to tell all, road kill is a viable meat source. I have an old cousin and her aging mother in northern WI who always carry knives, bowls, and plastic bags in the trunk of their car just in the event they spot a fresh kill.
The obvious key is the word "fresh".
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From: Ollie
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I remember those days...but not fondly! I used to carry about 30 feet of climbing rope that I would toss over a stout lower limb and then I would climb up the rope and stand on a study branch. Any deer that passed would be safe as I had a death grip on nearby branches to keep from falling out and there was no way I was letting go to try to shoot. Friends of mine liked to balance on cedar tree limbs. The Baker Slim Jim was my first stand and was a death trap. There was no feeling worse than hugging a tree 10 feet from ground level only to have the elastic strap slip off your feet and you would hear the ratcheting sound of your climber heading for ground level in total darkness. I once climbed up a wood utility pole. Each time I shifted my weight, the stand would drop 6 inches. Safety lines consisted of a short piece or rope tied around your waist. It's nothing short of a miracle that we did not kill ourselves.
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From: JustSomeDude
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Check this one out...belonged to my friend's dad. They'd just hug the true and climb...no safety lines. He got stuck hugging a tree 20' feet up once.
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From: ButchMo
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Pretty good stuff here. If I don't agree with you I'm a BS artist and don't know anything about hunting.
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From: JustSomeDude
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I use this now...but with a HARNESS.
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From: Scooby-doo
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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dean, I hunt a lot of public property and although I agree some what, I like the fact folks leave stands on public land. They are supposed to have their name and license numbers on them in the states I hunt. This way I can tell where guys are set up and use that to my advantage. I rarely have problems with other hunters. I have not hunted Iowa though as I only have two points and buying a third so it will be soon. I have killed deer from pretty much anything you ca hunt from, tree stands, trees with no stands, from the ground, in a ground blind. I have even killed 5 bucks from an old abandoned station wagon at a nice pinch point between two fields and a creek crossing. It finally sunk so deep in the ground I can't hunt out of it anymore. Shawn
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From: Eric Krewson
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I took two rapid trips to the ground on a Baker suicide stand, after the last decent I took it home and beat it to pieces with a sledge hammer to make sure no one died using it.
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From: dean
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Like Riverwolf stated every possible place gets covered on some land and especially the public land in NW Iowa. A few years ago two brothers from Tennessee were here. They were aggressively kicked off of every place they hunted. Before Iowa had a tree stand law I was threatened by two doorknobs from Fayetteville that put in about 50 permanent stands on a place called Cardinal Marsh, 1200 acres and they claimed it all. They said they were going to destroy my car if I hunted there. They cut down a stand of all but four trees of golden birches. I could not get the gamewarden to do anything, but the state forester did. The head of the Iowa DNR also took a trip to Ledges at my antagonisms that year. Taking on the newspaper group which I ran at the time seemed a little challenging so he recommended the tree stand regs. Around here some are using cameras to see who is hunting near or going past their stands and telling them that they cannot hunt. The Iowa law is that when you put a tree stand on public property, it is public property and you cannot kick anyon off of it. One area game warden has warned my a number of times that I cannot kick anyone off of my tree stands. Problem is, he has said that to no one else, just me, and I do not hunt out of tree stands, so the tree stand boys continue to think that they can claim stake public land. The game warden quit talking to me about it because I use my loudest operatic voice when I yell at him about giving me BS warnings and not having the balls to go after the manly men that are breaking every rule they can get by with and put on their big macho man routine to other hunters. I hate bullies and have been kicking their asses my whole life. Leave no trace on public lands.
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From: jjs
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Use to keep a old 6ft wood ladder close by and used it to get up a crotch of a tree and used a piece of rope tied to pant belt, this was in Ia. where their wasn't much high growth trees along sloughs or fence rows. As Dean stated, there should be a rule to remove the stand each day on public, haven't hunted deer in Ia. since 2000 but started to see it in several small public land that I hunted. Infact, one hunter had his dog shot after using a stand that was left on public when he killed a 163" buck by the owner of the tree stand, no charges were filed but the gent that shot the dog never showed his face after the fact.
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From: JusPassin
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Dean is spot on. Anyplace that allows more than one stand to be left up is a disaster. IMO on public ground you should be allowed to leave one stand, and it should have a tag on it that you get with your license. It's yours to use as long as you get to it first. If someone else gets there first then it's yours to take down if you show up, the other guy gets to stay.
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From: IslandSnapShooter
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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A little off topic but my state just banned the cutting of any brush or branches for any purpose even for shooting lanes. Is this common in most states?
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From: Murray Seratt
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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We found a Baker still around the tree. We thought the guy was coming back to hunt. It never moved all season, so I think it scared him enough to just walk away. It was still unmoved the next season.
Murray
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From: Elkpacker1
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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yep, I do not use those portables. I still build and use the same tree season after season. works great
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From: limbwalker
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Very true. I shot my first deer, with a bow, from a tree stand nailed to a large post oak. Several trees in those woods had stands built in them before we bought the property in '79 and we continued to use them until they were no longer safe.
I began building my own tree stands in the 80's and it wasn't until the late 90's that I actually bought a commercial stand.
I look back at how unsafe those early stands were and wonder how I'm still alive.
I've reached a point in my life where climbing is getting less and less appealing - at least how I've been doing it - and I invested in a climbing stand last year to hopefully make things a little safer and easier on me in the future. I'm also looking for ground blind locations now everywhere I hunt so in the future I can stay on the ground wherever possible.
When the day comes that I can no longer get up in a tree, I will be very sad. Because sitting up in trees with a bow in my hand has been a big part of my life.
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From: Clydebow
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Box Call,I remember those Baker Climbers. My brother in law had one. Your probably lucky someone took it!
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From: olddogrib
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Ah, you pansies sound like Frisky and just don't appreciate a little adventure. I never had any chest hair until I bought the overhead hand climber and then the sit down version that Baker came out with to make them less exciting! Those were the good ole' days!
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From: rick allison
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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You could always tell a Baker user...no skin on the inside of the arms and chin.
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From: reddogge
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Here's a death trap that predated the Baker, a Dan Quillian portable ca. 1968. Needed a linesmans belt and pole or tree spikes to climb.
I also had a Baker and rode the Baker elevator down. I sold it to some poor sucker.
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From: reddogge
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Dan Quillian stand.
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From: dean
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I believe the Lone Wolf system is pretty good if one follows their climbing and safety instructions. My son has been using one and no problems with it, although he does have a little saw that he trims small branches that may get in the way. The trick to learn is how to judge how much thinning the trunk of a tree has so the the stands ends up being level when the desired height is reached. the Lone Wolf sit and climb rig works good, but one does take baby steps with each move.
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From: GF
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Time was, treestands were illegal in some states. Why? Because they were too damned productive. Not Sporting enough for the Gentleman Hunters of the day...
Public hunting areas in CT are lousy with 'em... One spot I tried to hunt, I could hardly get out of sight of at least one, and often, I gave up counting. And yes, we get plenty of hoo-rah on the state forum about guys who think they can stake an exclusive claim on a given spot by just hanging a stand.
I don't mind using them, but they sure are a PITA in every other respect!
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From: shade mt
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Back in the day when I was a bit younger and more adventurous I used a old steel frame from a old reclining chair..lol..had some boards across it. It was about 16 or so feet up, and I hung a heavy rope from a branch above the stand, and I'd climb the rope to get into the thing lol!
That frame is still in the tree! my son -in law came across it this past year while hunting on the mt. I had long since forgotten about it, we all got a good laugh as I recalled the memory, especially the part about climbing up when I hung the thing. darn near worked to exhaustion to get it hung..lol I called it my recliner stand..lol ...
That was probably almost 30 yrs ago.
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From: Frisky
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I laugh when I see all these tree stands, yet I have a full freezer and haven't climbed a rickety old stand since 79'!
Joe
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From: cut it out
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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we have rules for puic land that stands need to be removed 2 weeks after season but no one does. I no where there are 5-7 stands that have no names and are left up year round. I guess it's ok to claim spots even though we have laws but are GW don't impose those laws obvisouly. These are very pressured spots and wardens are always there but do t make these guys remove them.
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From: nrthernrebel05
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Native Americans would use deer to hunt deer too. I hunt from the ground and from hang on stands with stick ladders. To me it's just huntin'. I don't like pop ups or enclosed stands, but hey, that's just me. If it's legal why hassle someone because of what they prefer.
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From: hawkeye in PA
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I've shot my fair share of deer from treestands. And talking about the Baker, well my neighbor worked for ALCOA and we figured we could shave a few more pounds off a Baker imitation. Mine made the scrap pile and his hung in a tree for years after he shimmied down from the death trap. Ah the good ole days!
There's maybe 15 huntable acres above my house and 27 portable treestands left out all year long.
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From: Sipsey River
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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My first tree stand was a 2'x 2' piece of 3/4" plywood with holes drilled in each corner for rope which I tied into forks or onto tree limbs. Very unsafe and unstable. But, very light weight and quiet.
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From: GF
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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"If it's legal why hassle someone because of what they prefer."
Some of us "prefer" to be able to hunt public land without being harassed by those who believe that they can stake a claim on public land just by sticking some metal up in a tree..
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From: limbwalker
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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GF, very true.
The topic of stands on public lands has "gifted" me some haters on a few forums.
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From: HillbillyKing
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I can tell you one thing about them old stands you find nailed in trees They were there for a good reason mostly Killed many deer at them spots ! I would useualy hang a stand where they are or were ! I pulled all of them down because i got permisson from land owner to do so !!!
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From: Babysaph
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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I have found that many here that badmouth Treestands used them before but now are afraid of heights or simply can't physically use them anymore.
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From: TGbow
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Date: 18-Apr-17 |
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Most states including mine do not acknowledge squatters rights. Someone may have 25 stands in the woods but it's still first come first hunt. Sadly some hunters think it gives them the right to claim the spot. I had a hunter this past year tell me somebody stold his climber. Some people dont have very high morals or much courtesy. I always move on when I see a stand unless I have a spot close by I want to hunt.
Usually plenty of area to choose from.
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From: broken arrow
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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Id like to see someone try to kick me off public, Mike
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From: Woods Walker
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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I hunted from stands from stands for many,many years and killed a bunch of deer from them. They're a great way to hunt. I haven't hunted from one now for over a decade. I decided that I wanted to really give ground hunting a serious shot and I became addicted to it. I love the freedom of mobility it gives me, I stay warmer with less clothing, and best of all I have FAR less "stuff" I have to tote around, from clothing to equipment. Oh...and I've shot the majority of biggest deer of my life while ground hunting.
All I carry now besides my bow is a simple fanny pack and Mini- Catquiver. To quote Braveheart......FREEEEEEEEEEDOM!!!!
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From: TrapperKayak
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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I hope NY never enacts a law that says I can't cut brush to make a hidey spot. I'd break it... If I were to ever consider hunting from a tree stand, it would be a natural one already there like this one across the road that I have considered standing in. Instead, I have stood under it and have seen several does and passed on one spike that came right up to me. Trail goes right by it.
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From: sammyg
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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Spent many hours hunting out of Baker stands and home-made copies. And yes they could be dangerous,but in my experience with them was to always climb soft bark trees. Very seldom I ever climbed anything but a white oak and never once had one slip on me. And back then I never used a safty harness of any type. Maybe I was just damn lucky. BTW,I still have one of my old Bakers hanging in the garage and one of my home-made stands as well.
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From: limbwalker
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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TK, you're a brave man to stand under that tree.
"I can tell you one thing about them old stands you find nailed in trees They were there for a good reason mostly Killed many deer at them spots !"
Very true. When my dad bought some property in E. Texas in '79 for us boys to hunt on, there were 3 or 4 old stands up in various places. Turned out those were all the best places to hunt. LOL I shot my first deer out of the one that was good enough to still use, and we replaced a couple of the other ones because the deer would come right by those spots. Go figure.
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From: grizz
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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I killed my first deer from an old wooden stand in SETexas. It was a real nose bleed at right at eight ft off the ground. That was in '63, oh my I'm getting old. Had several of those old wooden stands back then, many fond memories of them.
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From: grizz
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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I killed my first deer from an old wooden stand in SETexas. It was a real nose bleed at right at eight ft off the ground. That was in '63, oh my I'm getting old. Had several of those old wooden stands back then, many fond memories of them.
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From: reddogge
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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This is a remnant of one of the stands we used to hunt. The angled seat and a ladder rung is still there. As you see the seat rest isn't very high nor is there any concealment but Sika deer were killed out of it.
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From: TrapperKayak
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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John, that old beech is pretty solid, even the fallen parts, but I do stay clear of the woods on really windy days.
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From: dean
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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I had a Baker, once in Wisconsin near Osseo, up a popple tree, I stepped too close to the trunk, you had to keep to the outside half, the unit dropped about 6 feet and recaught. I was surprised how much spring there was, I did competition diving in college, I believe what I did was a full gainer with a half twist. I landed on my feet, but lost points do to the extra steps and skid.
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From: two4hooking
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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Woods walker summed it up perfectly for me.....
Here is another picture for you....Bobcat!
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From: dean
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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I had the pleasure of watching a friend pull the branch hang stunt on a deer years ago. He was shooting a 70" Hill. We were monkeys back then, we could have made good use of a tail at times if we had them.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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PA now has a law against letting stands hang after the season is over.
I found a metal grate wedged between the fork of a big rock oak. Looked as if it had been there for 20, 30 yrs. The first thing that impressed me was..."This looks like a good spot".
Was a natural saddle right above it. I wanted to hunt out of it for sometime, figured the guy that put it up was probably long since gone.
It was a long hike in there so was a couple years till I finally got the time to hike in there and hunt. Got off work early one day, had the time to make the hike so hiked the 1 1/2 hr in for an evening hunt. I was in the stand 1/2 hr at the most. Big doe came out of the saddle made her way down to me and I put an arrow through her lungs.
Took me 3hrs of some serious dragging to get her out. Had to get up for work early so I needed to get her out and quartered as quick as possible before it got late. The time is rapidly coming when I won't be able to drag one that fast anymore.
Anyway I agree limbwalker some of those old stands are hotspots.
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From: Uncle Lijiah
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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We used to make our own portable lock-on tree stands and rope-on climbing steps based on plans in a Missouri Conservationist magazine article. I believe it was called "Perry's Portable Perch". We made these stands in various sizes and they worked really good. I wouldn't trust them now unless a qualified engineer calculated the actual working load limits. The steps worked good, too. Some of the older Missourians here will probably remember these.
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From: Kodiaktd
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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Here is Pennsylvania's treestand regulations. I hope it's readable.
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From: Kodiaktd
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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Pennsylvania Hunter Harassment Laws
(34 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 2302 (1996))
TITLE 34. GAME PENNSYLVANIA CONSOLIDATED STATUTES CHAPTER 23. HUNTING AND FURTAKING SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 2302. Interference with lawful taking of wildlife or other activities permitted by this title prohibited (A) GENERAL RULE.-- Except as otherwise provided in this title, it is unlawful for another person at the location where the activity is taking place to intentionally obstruct or interfere with the lawful taking of wildlife or other activities permitted by this title.
(A.1) ACTIVITIES WHICH VIOLATE SECTION.-- A person violates this section when he intentionally or knowingly:
(1) drives or disturbs wildlife for the purpose of disrupting the lawful taking of wildlife where another person is engaged in the process of lawfully taking wildlife or other permitted activities; (2) blocks, impedes or otherwise harasses another person who is engaged in the process of lawfully taking wildlife or other permitted activities;
(3) uses natural or artificial visual, aural, olfactory or physical stimuli to affect wildlife behavior in order to hinder or prevent the lawful taking of wildlife or other permitted activities;
(4) creates or erects barriers with the intent to deny ingress or egress to areas where the lawful taking of wildlife or other permitted activities may occur;
(5) interjects himself into the line of fire;
(6) affects the condition or placement of personal or public property intended for use in the lawful taking of wildlife or other permitted activities in order to impair its usefulness or prevent its use;
(7) enters or remains upon public lands or upon private lands without permission of the owner or their agent, with intent to violate this section; or
(8) fails to obey the order of any officer whose duty it is to enforce any of the laws of this Commonwealth where such officer observes any conduct which violates this section or has reasonable grounds to believe that any person intends to engage in such conduct.
(B) ENFORCEMENT AND RECOVERY OF DAMAGES.-- The commission or any person who is lawfully engaged in the taking, hunting or trapping of game or wildlife who is directly affected by a violation of this section may bring an action to restrain conduct declared unlawful in this section and to recover damages.
(C) EXCEPTIONS.-- The conduct declared unlawful in this section does not include any activities arising from lawful activity by other land uses, including farming, mining, forestry practices, recreation or any other activities when it is evident that such activities are not intended to violate this section.
(D) PENALTIES.-- A violation of this section is a summary offense of the second degree.
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From: Kodiaktd
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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Just some info if anyone from Pa. is interested.
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From: ahunter55
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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I'm old enough I remember ground hunting without a pop up like available today (38 animals on the ground & traditional)& me & my brother hauling a bucket with boards & nails to place a board in a crotch to sit on anywhere from 7 to 10 feet off the ground (we both killed Deer at 7-8 feet several times)or looking for a good blow down by as good trail (picture is Buck I took by walking up a blown down big Oak & standing in the branches about 8 feet off the ground 1980). I used a baker & I had it in Colorado WAAYYYY back in on a ridge over a mile from a 4x4 trail & someone STOLE IT.. Yes, I took a real wild ride on it more than once. Shot A Bear in Canada out of it. Now, old & grey, I use 16' ladders. On public you cannot cut brush, tree limbs & many, no screw in steps...
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From: GF
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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So, Kodiak....
I'm not sure as I read that that I am seeing anything that would prevent someone from staking a claim on public land...
But maybe telling somebody to shove off would count if the one claiming the spot wasn't the first one to show up that day... Certainly some of the punitive temper tantrums that you read about would violate the do-not-interfere/sabotage section...
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From: Kodiaktd
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Date: 19-Apr-17 |
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GF, I PMed you.
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From: shade mt
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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I've come to the conclusion that many folks are so used to living in close proximity to other people that they think nothing of it in the woods.
If you think about it it totally makes sense.
I'm not much for the "staking a claim" idea on public land. I kinda think the first guy there has the spot taken while he's there.
I could hang a stand in the morning, then leave and come back in the evening. If somebody else is there I just quietly move on, hunt off the ground.
It RARELY ever happens. I did have it happen once on the first day of archery though. Hung a stand the night before came in before daylight, saw a light near it. I just quietly moved to another spot and hunted off the ground.
Later in the day I slipped back. I had to retrieve my stand. He was still there. I wanted to do so as quietly and quickly as possible so as to disturb the area as little as possible.
The guy climbed down and came down the ridge to me. I wasn't sure what he was going to say. He was very polite and apologetic as was I......I didn't make an enemy that day.....I made a friend.
Some people just simply don't know how to act,There like a bunch of selfish Kids.
I've had very,very, very few bad confrontations most are pleasant.
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From: Chief RID
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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I remember back in "68" when deer did not look up. I was a great time to get elevated, anyway you could if you wanted to hunt a bench or trail. Fiberglass arrows and hoodless bow quivers. Deer still don't look up past the first limb if you hunt the thick stuff. Stay in the shadows and off the ridge line.
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From: TrapperKayak
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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That PA Title 34 reg. looks more like something designed to protect hunters from harassment by antis more than hunters harassing other hunters. Guess it works for both. Very considerate of the PA Game Commission.
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From: Liquid Amber
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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I first bow hunted[1966-68] elevated and from the ground at Ft. Sill and a public bow only area next to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. I climbed a lot of trees and any critter wandering close enough for a shot was pretty safe as I rarely was in a position to do it harm. One does not climb water oaks or any other hard barked tree in a Baker but I did kill my first deer and a couple more out of Baker's.
When I hunted Public WMAs in Louisiana during the '90s one rarely had problems with other bow hunters during "bow only." Permanent stands were illegal and you carried a climber in and brought it out when you left. The WMA managers/enforcement were common sense types and generally overlooked leaving a stand on a tree over night and removing after the morning hunt. They recognized the added safety issues when placing a climber in the dark and unless they received a complaint, they politely looked the other way.
Elevated stands are the number one factor in success rates for bowhunters. If it were illegal for bowhunters to hunt elevated the woods would be significantly less crowded. I've killed deer and a number of hogs from the ground but much prefer hunting elevated.
Hunting elevated and other ways, many now illegal, to gain an advantage is nothing new. Hunted elevated was practiced by those who came earlier. It is recorded by Archibald Rutledge that southeastern tribes hunted deer from trees and rattled antlers to attract bucks.
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From: Wild Bill
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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This was my first treestand on private property. It was here that I nearly jumped out of the stand, when a hot air balloon which drifted in above me, decided to fire up the burner, to climb more than the hundred feet they were above me. Used only a waist belt at the time. I now use a climber almost exclusively, and am very appreciative of the full body harness design I now use.
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From: RonG
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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You tell them Frisky, tree stands are for sissies...Ha!Ha!
I have used trees to spot game, but hunted them on the ground, I just couldn't figure out how anyone could shoot accurately balancing from a tree stand.
Now climbing a tree silently without any use of any equipment is an art in itself...chuckle!!....Ahhhh Youth, what can I say. That was a long time ago.
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From: TrapperKayak
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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Wild Bill, that made me laugh right out loud at my desk. :)
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From: bowwild
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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I love hunting from tree stands, mostly lock on Lone Wolfs. Been doing it since 1970. That first one was homemade between two boles of a shagbark in Brown County, Indiana. I killed the first live deer I had every seen, a 5-point, that opening evening, (45# Ben Pearson Cougar and Bear Razorhead-tipped cedar arrow).
After that I used climbing Bakers. Can't believe I survived those days! Climbed until my 20' haul line went taunt. Sometimes used a "safety" belt sometimes didn't. Sat on an old WWII wooden ammo box.
Later during my wildlife biologist career (stationed at Kingsbury WMA in LaPorte, IN) I remember the huge bonfires we'd have in the spring of left behind tree stands--dozens and dozens of mostly 2x4 ladder stands. Some folks would abandon perfectly good commercial stands though. I couldn't afford to buy em let alone leave em.
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From: JusPassin
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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bowwild makes an interesting observation. I too am convinced there are a number of guys who consider the cost of a tree stand or two just part of their annual expenses. I know of more than a couple stands been left for years and no one has ever returned for them.
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From: retired stick
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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Prior to 1978-79 it was not legal to hunt in trees or elevated platforms in Mich. My first tree stand was a Baker lucky me.
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From: RymanCat
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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THERE IS SOMETHING OF THE LORE OF THE BIG TREE IN THE BUSH AND DEER SEEM TO REALLY LIKE THEM TOO.
a LOTA GOOD A CLIMBER DOES YOU ON HEDGEROW TRESS IN WOOD LOT FIELDS. ITS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER TOOL YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE EXACT APPLICATION TO FIT IT.
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From: limbwalker
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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I can't stand it when public land allows stands to be left overnight. With $49 lock-on stands all around us these days, it's just asking for folks to "claim" areas by hanging cheap stands there and leaving them up.
One place in IL that allowed stands to remain all season did have a requirement that the hunter's name, address and phone # were on the stand. So guess what you got? One hunter was named Johnny Walker, the next Jim Beam, the next Jack Daniels, and so on.
IMO The only way to keep public land truly public is to require hunters to remove all their hunting equipment at the end of every day.
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From: dean
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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Speaking of hot air balloons and and bow hunting. One year second day of bow season a warm Sunday morning. The pint sized burg of Fairview, South Dakota down below, an Iowa state pond over the hill and across the blacktop. Sitting on a wedge stand and thinking about going home, a hot air balloon hits the fire and scares the crap out of me. So I yell for all my operatic baritone tenor voice had in it, "PARDON ME, WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE ANY GREY POUPON?" A head appears over the side of the basket and in surprisingly good voice answers,"SORRY FRESH OUT." While that terrain was like an amphitheater because the folks getting out of church in Fairview got a good chuckle going and a woman yelled that she had some. The guy I was hunting with was rolling around in the weeds down the hill. Hunting was done for the day, we left and went over to the pond, a family was there with a grill going. A woman came up to me and said,"I don't have any Grey Poupon, but I do have regular mustard and you are welcome to join us for brats and potato salad." We did it was really good potato salad and brats, even with regular mustard.
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From: stykman
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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Still have a Baker and if anyone is interested, shoot me a PM and we can talk.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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The original name of the Baker was the Profane Tree Stand. Think about that for awhile. It adequately described it.
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From: Ollie
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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No one can hang a bunch of stands and claim the area as "theirs" unless you let them. They have no legal basis and they get their way by bullying others that "trespass" in their area. They could just as easily put an old kitchen chair in every brush pile and claim they have multiple ground blinds in the area.
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From: TGbow
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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We had a couple Bakers in the 70s. I took a 6 or 7 ft slide grippin the tree. I was skinned up pretty bad.
They were death traps for sure.
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From: TGbow
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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We had a couple Bakers in the 70s. I took a 6 or 7 ft slide grippin the tree. I was skinned up pretty bad.
They were death traps for sure.
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From: Homey88
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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The first stand I hunted out of was a TSS, ( I think that was the name) it had a metal band with a rubber grip on it. I used to take a small seat and sit on it. I don't know how I didn't fall from it. I also tied my climbing rope around my waist as a safety belt! Lol I watched a friend of mine slide down the tree from a height of 15 ft from a baker. Bark was flying and he was skinned up really bad. But thankfully he was not hurt. Soon after I bought a Loggy Bayou! A lot of memories! Lol
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From: Uncle Lijiah
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Date: 20-Apr-17 |
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I remember reading an old magazine article by Art Kragness about bowhunting whitetails from his wooden painter's ladder leaned against a tree.
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