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I have two stands on the place I hunt. I can’t see a hell of a lot. Juniper is thick in some places in the hill country. This is stand one, can see three ways. I cleared this little area out




It’s 225 to big green feeder



Cut this lane out, see a lot of deer on it



Green feeder back to stand, cut out juniper in front stand so I could see open area by green feeder.

Stand number two, can see 4 ways.












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I’d hope like hell you noticed that buck under the feeder at stand #2

Yes, watched him a good while, was waiting on a bigger one I had seen, but couldn’t get a shot at.

Great pics

I enjoy threads that have pics of other parts of the country.

Nice to see something besides plantation pines.

I hunted on paper company land for 15 years, more open in the creek bottoms than this hill country lease. I do see more game in the hill country.

More stand #2 pics




Dead pig at bottom, sometimes they come back after you shoot one.


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I mostly hunt #2 stand because Aoudads show up once in a blue moon. Sometimes a good one

Hardwoods are getting harder to find around here.

Mostly what’s left is SMZ or just too wet to cut.

We pay too much for this lease, 2000.00 per gun, plus 200 for electricity, but it gives me a place to get away. All great guys on this lease, bout 1/2 old like me, 1/2 around 35 to 40 years old. I can bring my son and grandkids. The spring fed creek keeps up in water all year. My son in law is 10 miles as the crow flies from me, pays 1200.00, but no water, no electricity.

want to come to Northern Minnesota and hunt deer with me ? my age is 69 years old and stay with me in my cabin ? and we need to discuss a pig and sheep hunt with you ?

Thank you, but we have a no guest rule except family on that lease

I do appreciate it the offer

but cousin not family enough ?

hanco, nice pics. Looks like you have a pretty nice place to hunt there.

I'm on a timber company lease. It's certainly not world class Deer hunting, but there are a few good ones, pigs and turkeys too.

Sure looks different than where I hunt in Va.

Its mostly planted pines. Sometimes the deer and pigs move through the thick areas along the edge of the planted pines. Have feeders in the pines and thicker cover.

Hay barn loft in the back ground is the stand

I like the pics, almost takes me there.

Couple of em

Last day of the season, for me.

Light rain. Was hoping deer would feed on the grass this evening.

A view of my ladder stand when I lived in Florida. Nothing but squirrels and possums.




A view from my ladder stand when I’m not there. 😂😂😂

Never had a bear on camera.

They are around these parts.

The small honey bears.

Word is game and fish keeps turning them out.

Some will have collars.

I saw one once while I was hunting during muzzleloader season. It walked about 20 yards from my stand. It had an orange collar around its neck with a small box on it with a small antenna. It was a long time ago. Big Bear too. When I told my buddy I was hunting with he said some were released in the area with tracking collars. It sure surprised me when I saw a bear with a collar.

Close enough to hear the heat pump running bears is thick up here

Great pics fellas

Winter 2022

My views this year. From a tree and on the ground.

What are all those weird green and brown things sticking out of the ground in all these pictures? 🤔🤣

We used to have some, but then farmers thought it would be prudent to tear them all down over the last decade or so 🤷‍♂️

I don't have a picture of this stand.

I would pay a goodly sum to help make this happen.

Lease was not renewed on this land, but the views there could range from this:





To this:




My favorite being the latter, I just like being in the woods, but ya gots to go where the deers is.

How come you fellas don’t build some nice warm stands? If built right, you can put one up in a few minutes, guy wire it off, be snug as a bug when it freezing, raining, etc. Raise them and lower with a winch, tractor, hoist.? I have stands 20 years old, metal platforms 30 to 40 years old.

on my land by the Canadian border i have 5 enclosed stands with heat 2 of those stands are the green type commercial stands ,no more opens stands for me.

Just before daylight on my #1 stand



Another view

I feel claustrophobic in box blinds. Like I'm not really out hunting.

That's cheating.

Personally, I like to be exposed to the deer. It makes it more challenging when they can see you and smell you. If the weather is too brutal, I just won't go. But typically, it's not very bad if I wear my rain suit or pile on the cloths if it's really cold. For years I used to use a climber, but now on the farm that I hunt, they let me put up 3 ladder stands.

As I’ve gotten older I can’t take the cold, plus I sometimes stay all day. I like to be comfortable and warm, although this is Texas, hardly gets into the twenties down here. I like to be dry too. I’m gonna make a 4 foot metal platform for this stand before next season. I have a 6 and 3 year old grandsons that want to go. I can’t see getting them up in my other stands that have 15’ platforms. This stand has foam insulation on the inside and glass windows like my other two. It has a metal roof that I haven’t put on yet. I’ll have to take roof off when I pull it up.

What’s it gonna take to make this happen?
Make this work! 😀

If anyone knows of a lease available in Texas preferably the hill county PM me please. We lost ours after last deer season. My granddaughter will be 5 in April and I really need to find one for the upcoming year to take her hunting for the first time. Thanks

I hunted from open ladder stands, strap on stands, and climbers for 50years. I still use 2 ladder stands, But I must admit now that I am 65 years old I really like hunting out of a box blind. They are warm, dry, and comfortable, and they are great for taking the grandkids. They are 7 and 9 years old and can get antsy after being in the blind for a couple of hours. But they are learning fast.

My son had a game boy, kept him busy. Granddaughter had coloring books, markers to decorate my stands. Her pictures are still there.

The "False Road Stand" looking north over a creek:


The "Cook's Stand" nearest the camp looking east with my 6.5x55 Swede:


A panoramic view of three shooting lanes from "The Tower" looking west:


My hunting buddies doing some spring field work in front of "The Condo" looking south:

First off, let me give you a peek at what it's like from my Opening Day Stand, Campground.




Next, let me invite you to the weblog for a view of all our hunting venues:

Hunting Venues

View from tree saddle. What you see is all public and population densities suck. But there’s a deer of a lifetime somewhere in all that ground….

I need to take more and better pictures when I hunt. Hell my old man nook this one.



Effing cows



The occasional deer



I get bored in the blind so I go elsewhere.



This little guy would pretty much come sit in my lap every time I went and rattled last year.



Love coming in or out in the dark. Loved it even more before they started putting the damn windmills everywhere.

Some beautiful country there! It reminds me of the Adirondacks, without all of the nasty weather. It’s definitely on my to do list of places I want to hunt.

Hanco this is a great thread!

I have to agree with PintsofCraft, great thread, and nice pictures.

I like looking at the pictures. Like others have said it’s good to look at other parts of the country. I can’t figure out how to post a picture.

I was thumbing through my pics, gave me the idea. It’s not very open where I hunt, had to cut lanes to have more to see. I hate having one place to look.

One way is to go to: https://postimages.org/

Once you're there you can upload an image, click on the Share button & select the Copy button to the right of Hotlink for Forums.

Then paste that link into your post.

A panoramic view from a stand on the edge of a bog. Three shooting lanes to choose from but sometimes they come from behind you so you have to keep your head on a swivel.


A few minutes after taking this selfie, I shot a deer to the left at 156 yards with my .303 British & a 150gr Hornady SP Interlock.


On this morning, any shots taken were going to be short. Could have used iron sights that day.


We have more time & money than brains so sometimes we design stands that are bigger & more over-engineered than they need to be just because we like building stuff.

Now that's a STAND....

Last elk I took was from here. A less than 20 acre piece of public land 300 yards from an Interstate. My kid and I have taken several deer from this spot too.

Now that it's laser-leveled on concrete pilings it has cables that also keep it anchored. Lifting a prebuilt carpeted & heated top section into place and bolting that down was both fun & awkward. We have a staircase with a landing built so we'll be attaching that next. On the day we moved it into place, no one remembered to bring a chainsaw so we had to take turns chopping down a nice size tree with an axe. I'm afraid to imagine what the future ones might look like if someone decides we need to go bigger next time.

What would the cost of that be compared to building it out of some kind of metal, either pipe or square tubing? Wood has gone crazy, but so has metal. I ask because metal will last so much longer, can be brought out to location, pulled up after attaching stand in a few minutes. This platform was built in 1982, been moved at least 6 times, 3 boxes on it. Metal seems like a better investment if you’re a young hunter. It will last a lifetime and probably more. It took me 3 or 4 afternoons to build the platform by myself.

That stand was setting where I took the picture, I let it down on trailer, moved it, pulled it it up by myself after I’d cleared juniper out. I was 58 or 59 then, don’t know if I could do it now. It let me be able to see way the hell down the hill, made it a lot more fun to hunt. The area behind green feeder was already clear, deer cross there bigtime. I cleared out to bottom of hill, feeder hanging in oak tree, killed lots of pigs down there.

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Dead pig walking at bottom of hill. I caught him in pen around the green feeder the day before, but he jumped over the fence. That fence is 3 feet I think, hog panels.

In both the locations I usually hunt, someone else in our group is always making the decisions on what should be built & how. I just show up to provide physical labor and tell them how they're doing it wrong.

So I haven't really done a price comparison on the different options yet. At the places I hunt, I've usually pitched in by buying tree stands and various other items while staying out of the long-winded arguments about the bigger permanent stands. Having said that, if I was unilaterally running the show, I probably would have chosen differently. The last time I was hunting hogs in east Texas, I spent several days in a variety of stands with metal bases and was really impressed with them. Based on the way the last wooden stand I was in had a disconcerting lean towards the back, I think your statement that metal is a better investment is spot on & probably the decision I would go with.

Even if you had to pay a welder, just seems better. I’m not much of a wood hand, always likes fooling with metal. Wood ain’t near as sturdy, doesn’t like being moved. I build the angle iron frame, put legs and short braces on it. I made a jig to get legs at correct angle. I pull it up from tree, kick legs around to square it up, put braces on to finish it up. Ain’t much to building it. I’d say faster than wood. I bet it doesn’t weigh near as much.

I built this in 2020 for an east Texas lease I got on. Lease sucked, one buck two does in 3 years, 14 hunters. I took it down, sold to son in law, bought box back, he still has platform. He might sell if someone lives close enough to come get it. Frame has landing, ladder, and handrail. He is in Anderson Texas

I look at it this way. Say it cost me a 500 bucks( round number) this year to build. Two years, 250 a year, ten years be 50 a year, 20 years be 25 bucks a year for something you still have. The frame in post above is 41 years old. Of course being a damn plumber I got material free, even angle iron.

I agree with everything you posted. We actually had a welder back home in south Louisiana agree to fabricate some stuff for us. But it was a low priority job & never materialized. So we went to a local fabricator & talked to him. I thought it all looked great & I was all for it but the next time I showed up at the camp there was a big pile of lumber waiting for me. It's all good because we had fun and that particular stand will never ever move. Like you, the other guy in the photograph with me is a commercial plumber so we've gotten a lot of useful scrap (especially irrigation pipe) to use around the camp.



Even though the deer stand I posted a photo of was by most camp's standards ridiculously tall, there was a somewhat legitimate reason for it. Being able to shoot over that slight ridge in the distance is a good thing along with the ability to shoot at as much of a downward angle as possible. I like to guarantee the bullet is going into the dirt shooting in that direction because there's a road at a distance behind the trees. Safety is a priority.

No windows?? Some thick felt like material would help stop wind, deer less likely to see movement, keeps your scent in, and hell of a lot warmer. Can block sun on hot days too.

The dark area above the open window is the flip up glass with a dark screen the hunter can see through. There’s also an outside window too for long term weather protection. So double windows. Just not obvious in the photo.

Oh, OK. I put glass in my windows, they fold up and in.

Sitting in the new the 1st mountable buck I killed at 13 with a bow from the one in the background.My all old time favorite spot

An hour and 15 minutes later I had a deer in the bed of my truck. Rifle is a Winchester 1895 in 35 Winchester

Fabulous old rifle

couple from my stand in Va

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A couple more. Some pretty rugged ground for the area, these mountain deer will get in your blood and make a man go in some rough ground to find them.

Try this again….

Yes it is.

In looking at all the diverse habitats shown in the photos, it's easy to see how we as hunters don't always relate to one another here in our approaches, equipment, etc.

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Sonora Texas
New lease this year.

I like these pics, takes me there.

Thank you. I think I got it.

And sometimes get a bit worked up when one posts methods or equipment used and we don't agree.

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View from one of my favorite cottonwoods

Rarely sit this stand. Very tight to bedding area but I see quite a few nice bucks when I do sit it.

Same as above but looking in different direction.

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Licking a branch then about 50 yards farther down the trail.

Shot this buck in between the 2 oaks above the butt of the rifle in the pic. 11:56 AM. Pictures taken 3 years and 3 days apart. Pretty sure I hadn't had a sit in between and I think dad had only sat this tree 2x in between.

Had a troll in this ground blind.

good pic's, love it. Little Trump supporter.