We all have our favorite deer stand.
Some are in some deep, secret pocket in a densely wooded thicket, or a span of timber with numerous trails.
Saddles, crossings, etc, etc....even ag crops!

Currently, from my favorite deer stand, I can identify these features.
1) Texas
2) Red River
3) Oklahoma
4) a Kiowa casino
5) a Comanche casino
6) a Love's truck stop
7) a town
8) an interstate highway
AND
9) a named mountain in a town 53 miles away

All these features are at least 4 miles away.....and we kill deer from the stand every year.

What oddities can you see from your deer stand?

P.S. - had an uncle who retired. He and my aunt bought a 2 acre "ranchette" near San Marcos, TX that butted up against a ranch and built a home. Uncle Bob set a feeder in his back yard.
If they decided they wanted venison, he moved his recliner over by the sliding patio door, lay his rifle (.22 Hornet) on top of a Houston phone book and watch TV and drink coffee until the deer he wanted stepped up to the feeder.

I can see the Spruce tree.



And the Balsam trees.



And all the way to the bottom of the stairs.

Chickadees, Canada Geese, and feral cats. Plump possum the other day. Ash snags from the Emerald Ash Borer infestation ?10 years or so ago and a handful of small oak trees I've planted over the years. The hum of traffic on the state highway south of us and the rumble of an occasional train on the tracks which parallel the highway.

I cannot see more than 140 yards from my ground blind, but the deer favor the cover along the creek bottom.

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I can see no more than 30 yards in one direction, less in other directions, from my current tree stand. About all I ever see, other than the occasional deer, are squirrels and turkeys. I was watching a flock of turkeys yesterday that had three gobbles in it and two of them had what are probably the biggest beards I've ever seen on a gobbler. My friend who owns the property never hunts turkey, but he said I'm welcome to. I'm going to next spring (no fall season here.)

Glad to see I'm not the only one who makes Sharpie notes inside my box blind! LOL!

BTW! Do you keep a "journal" of all your hunting, fishing and other notable outdoor activities?

Can watch the sunrise and keep check on the home front from this stand maybe kill a deer

Top of the mountain stand long walk but sunrise is worth it

WOW!

Lots of great pictures here but that’s frame it and put it on the wall quality.

Standard view when hunting an El Norte Tejas cattle ranch:

Can not see more than 200 yds. Heavy wooded area

Sunrise from opening morning a few weeks ago.

Each stand has a notebook for recording what we see, weather, etc. I am about the only one that writes in them and I admit, I am not very good about it.

Coons are more afraid of coyotes than they are of me

3 different stands.

[bleep] giant windmills. [bleep] those things.

If you gaze north can you see Roundoaks place?

Don't get me started on those damnable windmills! 🤬!

Where my "blind" is, I'm about 1.5 miles from the nearest highway.
I don't hear traffic. The interstate is about 5 miles away. I can see traffic, especially semi's, but I never "hear" them.
The casino's can only be "seen" in the dark. Knowing where they are, you can locate them with bino's.
The town (small) has a "standpipe" elevated water tank that's visible in the daylight.
The mountain can only be seen if the air is relatively clear.
I hear farm equipment occasionally.

Oh yeah! I'm sitting under the "glide path" of a USAF training center. There are pairs of T6 trainers overhead quite often!
The other day, two F16's (?) flew over!

Northern California Blacktail Deer hunts.

[bleep] windmills. They're popping up everywhere in central Kansas.

They're a blight on the landscape. Just my opinion, and you know what they say about those.

Eh, pretty much all looks like this.

About every 10 minutes some type of hospital/medical helicopter, military helicopter, nana in a cessna, c-130c, apache gunship, chinook, crash hawks, c-17 are flying over.

Annoying as FK

especially if youre trying to listen to deer approach from a cane thicket

But notice I don’t make a thread every time I see a helicopter or transport, clap my paws together like Grape Ape and and jump up and down like I’ve scored the last Boba Fett Suave shampoo character bottle at Dollar Tree.

There’s also BJ and The Bear riding his jake brake, amberlampses, straight pipe harleys, trailer scum with Granny from Loony Toons’ dog pound in her yard

Not necessarily sites but def sounds


Stream crossing after last light

Nothing I would consider odd, just miles and miles of Texas.

A few minutes ago

I make Sharpie notes to landmarks and the range to them.

Ag for deer.
A friend's place

I sometimes see chit like this from a stand.

Spend a lot of evenings here 2nd floor hay loft 100 odd yr old barn furthest point field shot is 290 yards stepped off

A few birds, and not much else so far this sit.

ya!

GWB

Deer blind/barn in the background I won’t in it that morning but connected that evening

Mercy kill on that one cost me a buck tag but worth it

From the infamous pallet blind...

Decent buck!

Why was he a mercy kill?

No smoke rolling out of it now days Huh?

Road hunters the pic I took that morning multiples was stopped looking at him like flys on schiit.He bedded not far with hot doe I knew where had to work that day but took off early😉.He was chasing does with his brother that evening in a neighboring field but miss hot ass arose from the morning chase and he fucgged up.

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Just my favorite place to take in a sunrise

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yesterday morning from “The Point on the Pines”

+/- 175 yds. from stand to target!











ya!

GWB

6.5/284?

Flue Gas Desulfurization Retrofit, several years back. No to very little SO2. The old chimneys are right at 1000ft tall +\-

Only steam on cooler days now

325 WSM, 200 Gr. Nosler Accubond.

ya!

GWB

Can’t see much from my stand except the land. I hunt a funnel along a travel corridor between bedding, water, and food.

2700 MEGA watts when both units are at full power.

This

I use a Barrett 50.......

mmm, hmmm, bout 2 hour ago

Ewwww yuckie… a savage

Damn Mr. Lord. U B a Lee A Pold guy an I gots a 6.5x284 too....knocks em DEAD.

It's not the only place I hunt on our KY farm but it's sure where you'll find me opening day. A draw behind of hardwoods, a small swamp in front and an opening, although it doesn't show well here, out to about 100 yards. I've killed a lot of deer from this stand the last 26 years.

Yea, I thought twisting the camera would work different.

Last day of firearm season here... sat every day and saw a grand total of one deer all fuggin season. Heard a couple shots way off west/northwest shortly before sunset.

Seen from my deer stand in a big swamp in Northern Wisconsin, in 1970. First saw a very nervous red fox looking back at his trail. A short time later I saw my first coyote ever, following the fox's trail. Now the freakin coyotes are everywhere.

UR shootin a Salvage ?

I don't have any pictures but I always sit and think about my dad when I'm just sitting there. Not always getting something but just being together.

I do too-----20-222

except p/dogs on the receiving end

Cousins oldest boy. We had a 3 hour sit this afternoon and he slept for about 2 hours 59 minutes of it!!🤣🤣🤣

Not mine, but one of my kids sent me this this morning.

Killed a little 6 point about as far into that thicker stuff as I was able to see.

Chainsaw work

I’ve got a really good idea where you’re hunting, and we don’t hunt that far apart.

Right now.

Looking at a 140 yard lane through a cedar forest while waiting on a 220lb. Upper Peninsula buck to show up. Holding a Knight LK-93 50 cal loaded with a 245 gr Powerbelt.

Beautiful evening.

Hope your not holding your breath till one pops out.

One from the trail cam by my stand.



A different food plot with a blind in early October.

Lake Buchanan

Dead pig standing about 100 yards downhill. I had caught him by big green feeder in pic, but he jumped out a few days before

Photo Needs to be bigger!!

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My favorite spot is along the old Smoky River Trail that crossed Kansas in the 1800s. From my perch on the bluff overlooking the river I can imagine herds of buffalo with bulls bellowing. Tipis certainly lined the bluffs where I sit and watch for whitetail bucks to feed along the stream side thickets. Flocks of turkeys work their way along the river, ducks fly back and forth, coveys of quail call from the thickets. Beavers are doing their best to place a few dams along the stream. I'll try to assist by reestablishing willow thickets as best I can along the river. Very thankful to own it and hoping it remains in the family for a few generations.

Opening morning 5 minutes to sunrise.

-Ken

Awesome thread

Raining this afternoon.

Dry in my stand.

There will be blood if the stars align🙏

Live

Practice your form baba girl

This was one spot from yesterday.

Some fking ass hole is running a chainsaw about 600 yards away. Hard to hear deer if they slip out of this thicket.

Don’t they know this is the fuggin Lord’s day?

Spot one


Spot two


Spot 3.

I should’ve taken a pic of my fuggin dogs that followed me 3/4 mile back in the woods to this stand a few mins ago.

End of ML a little over an hour ago.

Spikes, and more spikes. Couldn't get all three in a frame together.

I'm supposed to be looking for critters, but this rifle distracts me!

Kansas 2022

Whoa, Bri guy's got some new moon boots !

Apparently, just snow, trees, grouse, birdies & squills !







Total deer sightings for the season - 1 forkhorn, 1 button buck, 1 dry doe, 1 doe & fawn !

** Coupla rabbits, too

This looks out to the edge of a beaver pond. The deer use this stretch of ground to skirt the pond. It has been a very productive stand over the years. Gotta be on yer toes, sh*t happens quick and they ain't there long.

I haven't found my blue ones. They're down and much preferred to these black ones.

Hey Buddy!

You need to have someone look at that barrel!

You take a poke at that one? Looks pretty decent.

My view from the ground. They like to cross that small stream where it turns.

-Ken