Gene and I just spent three full days hanging new stands for this fall. We name our stands so we don't have to relate to them as "the west stand in the northeast corner of the 40 acre cedar patch". It's just easier to name them. We hung three really great ones called Death Row; Takedown; and the Back Door. Some of our others are: Bone Pile; Squirrel Flat; Tea Kettle; Penn Station; the Salad Bar; Motherlode; Corner Pocket; Slingshot; Midas Touch; The Graveyard; 4 Star; The Gap; Turkey Track; Marth's Vineyard; Malfunction Junction; Tater Hoe; Beat to Death; Biggie's Upper Lip; Heat Stroke, etc. You get the drift. Anyway, we're needing to come up with some new stand names we could "borrow". How about listing some of your best old stand names? We just need the names though... not the location. :^) BW
The Black Hole is one of my favorite elk hunting areas; I guess that would work for some tree stands. Fornication Ridge is another great elk area.
How about" not worth a d::n" I,ve got a bunch of these.You gonna be in Africa during Cloverdale?Good luck if I don't see you there!!!John Benetti
Very descriptive names. These stands have only been up for 1 year since the property is new but:
Spring Head - Has a nice spring pool deep in the timber
South cutline stand -
North Creek stand -
Armadillo stand - Thought a guy saw an armadillo out of it but I had the wrong place, name stuck though :)
East ridge stand
Double corner stand
Bobcat stand - saw a Bobcat out of it twice but have since moved it
There are several other stands on the place that need to be named. Always saying that stand back...blah blah blah
Naming stands is good fun and gives the property some history. It does save a lot of describing where the stand is located when talking about a sighting from it.
Heck, this is one of my favorite things...coming up with catchy stand names. I/we name all our stand sights, but we wait until after it's hunted to name it, it kind of has to "earn" a name. Some of the most memorable...
Death Valley: a saddle shaped like a small valley that had lots of deer traffic.
Stompin Ground: on a old overgrown road with a really heavy scrape & rub line. Buck came through stompin the ground at every step towards a grunt call.
Sanctuary: right at the very, very edge of a large buck's bedding area. Slipped in one afternoon under the right wind and when I got up in the tree I eventually made out 3 deer asleep just inside the thicket
The Porch: a very easy to get to, easy to climb, comfortable stand...if you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.
Stockpile: the last stand we hunted in a particular area when all else failed.
Triple X: I watched a buck breed 2 different does from this stand.
Bad News/Good News: sat at the edge of our land and some we were allowed to hunt, they sold it and the new owners wouldn't let us hunt their land...but since the stand was on our land it stayed and still produced.
Donkey Kong: setup near a Chestnut oak. First guy to sit it was covered in deer that were constantly pelted with the big acorns. Said it reminded him of that little guy in the video game with the gorilla throwing barrels down and the deer dodging and flinching when hit.
Whoa Nelly: my cousin set this one and first time my uncle got in it, it shifted...he said those were the words he uttered while his stomach did a flip-flop trying to regain his balance.
Moros: The Greek personification of doom. Every deer killed out of it walked by without hesitation, completely oblivious to it's impending fate.
The Victor: first deer killed out of it was by a cancer survivor.
The Day Care Stand - does and fawns around this stand all the time.
Death Dive Stand
The Zoo
River Overlook Stand
SandBar Stand
Happy Hour Stand
The Island Stand (in an "island" of trees)
The Chute Stand (natural funnel)
The Sand Pocket
The Thick Stuff
Turkey Roost
Barry One stand we call Pas-Bon french for not good .The hunting is good but hell to get game out if you kill.Kip
We have
Plum good - near a plum tree
Sweet simmons - near a persimmon tree
Mac Daddy - this a 40' gun stand you hunt a 75 acre field
Cedar row - a stand in a cedar tree on an old fence line
Cool thread, fun to see how universal some aspects of the hunt are. I agree with JC, most times, the stand has to earn its name. Here are some of ours:
Beartrack - found a bear track here several years back
Homestead - on a ridge overlooking the original homestead foundation
Traditions ridge - where we learned how to hunt
Two-Gobbler Paradise - my brother and I killed two gobblers within about thirty seconds in this area. The name stuck for our deer stand in the same area.
Surprise Jake - first year turkey hunting, Chris and I were surprised by a half dozen jakes here. I think we were as startled as they were, and the name stuck again.
Flying Squirrel - found a great old whiteoak for a stand, and as we were putting it up, a flying squirrel popped out of a cavity and scared the daylights out of us.
Copperhead Flats - bottom field where we consistently see copperheads
Proving Grounds - 2 acre clearing on top of a hill as steep as the kitchen wall
Spiral Staircase - warped lumber on a home-made ladder stand...nuff said.
I name my stands as well, 2 of my favorites to hunt are "Maple corner, and "First shot".
We don't really do any hunting from tree stands but we name locations for reference purposes. There is - Bed-n-Breakfast, South point, Da Bowl, Short Cut, Lookout, Cross Roads, Spike Camp, Drop Off, The slide, The Mine, Poley, Schwab cut, Fork-n-horn road, 300, Pa's Rock, the corral, the flats, & I know there are more.
One of my favorites is a stand I call "Deliverance", because of the "house" I have to drive by to get to it.....
Then there is "Five Corners", "The Ledge Stand",
"Racoon Alley", "Home Sweet Home", "The Wall Stand", "Boulders", and a few more that I'm sure I'll remember later.
David
Barry
I think I could do a better job of coming up with a name for a stand site AFTER hunting it for a few days this fall.Please just tell me where and when and I'll be more than happy to help you and Gene out.
Best
Bob
How about "death trap"? :)
I don't name any of mine but the very few people that have had the chance to see them call'em the 'nose bleed' stands. had one fellow got a little dizzy just looking up at one of'em last fall.
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"Old Faithful", "Widow Maker", "Blue Northern", "Swamp Seat", "Balcony", and "Sleepy Hollow".
Help yourself....
I hope the Back Door stand got it's name 'cause a big buck uses it as an escape route :)
Since litter blows across a field from the road and hangs up on a woods edge I commonly mark the entrance trails to my stands with said trash. Easy to spot in the dark and doesn't raise a red flag to a trespasser like surveyor's tape or somesuch. Easy for a guest to find when described, ie. "Walk down the edge until you see the Lays Potato Chip bag then go in the woods and pick up the glow-tack trail." Not real aesthetic but practical.
So my stands pick up the name of their entry trail marker:
- Beer box stand
- Tater chip stand
- Milk jug stand
Not real catchy but practical.
A lot of my older stands are named for a historical event. Like the "chit bucket". An old wooden stand with a 5 gallon bucket seat was there for years. The bucket got used for another purpose that you can guess one morning when I was caught short. Needless to say the bucket was removed and later the wood stand was replaced with a steel hang-on but the name remains.
Double-D...shot 2 does out of that stand on the same morning.
Multi-buck...wrapped up in big boys that wouldn't allow a shot.
Tuff Buck stand...oh so close...
Kodie's Stand...named after my best 4-legged friend who is no longer with me except in my memory.
In bear camp they had one called "chicken choker". I refrained from asking how it got it's name.
Hornets Nest
Ditch Funnel
Swamp Music
Double Trouble
How about "Fart in a mayonaise jar" or "Booger scraper"...PR
Our 2 best stands are called "The Wagon Wheel" where several trails meet and "The Titty Blind" it has 2 symmetrical humps neck high you can rest your head on! Both have been good stands.
Kip; I have one called " multo bono" , italian for Very Good ! lol
Barry, I think you should let me come sit in one of them and kill a big buck and then you can call it Steve's stand! just a thought.....
SOL you fill in the blanks
Barry,
How about :
Candy-Land , Bird Stand , The Deli , The Point ,
Saddleball , Nose-Bleed to name a few.
can;t forget RESURRECTION :-)
The underwear(you dont want to know), the control center, apple stand, little buck ridge,the eagles nest, the bog,hansel & gretel stand, elm ridge, the nob.
When you get to the final one, call it "Wensel's Last Stand"
Tri-fecta - in a corner; corn,beans,apple trees
Catwalk - a Calico walks by every afternoon when teacher/owner let's him out and out pop the does
Trojan - setting the stand and the squirrels poured out
Muddy Butt - the slope was steeper than I thought, did get the stand hung tho..
Rabbit Turds - got scared just getting to that tree ; it was really dark ya know....NO; I didn't, but Mr. Hare did..!!
The stump
The eight point
The hole
The 10 point trail
No escape
The 2 acres
The low one
Just to name a few...
Serge
Half Rack,
Buzzard's Roost,
Saddle Back,
Beaver Beach,
Leanin' Cedar,
Party House,
Eight Dollar Bottom.....
David
the best three I've had
Energizer
Dorf
wounded knee
Pertaining to the shape of a small creek as it winds back and forth.....
North Boob
South Boob
Cleavage Stand
Wreckdum (potent place during the rut)
North Fork,
Hill Top,
The Meadow,
Driveway,
Old House,
Honeymoon suite,
Deep split,
Cemetery,
Piss elm,
Big Hack
Others I just number.
The Vortex, it was a great rut stand in IL.
Vanish Stand
The Roost
The Nest
Crooked stick
The Nose Bleed
Just a few that come to mind.
We wait to name them Also as some aren't worth naming....Here are a few good ones......BLOOD HILL...the best bow stand I ever hunted. 10 acres of planted pines and in the Middle, on a hill, was 5 White Oaks and 4 Red Oaks. One memorable week-end we had 5 blood trails leaving the White Oaks....VELVET...the first time I ever sat in this stand, I killed my only velvet buck and it was a nice one. My buddy, Shannon, and I killed 10 white-tails from Velvet that first year. It was a nearly perfect funnel with a great creek crossing..We talked about changing the name several times as a lot of strange stuff happened while we were hunting it..Shannon had a squirrel hunter come up the creek bed one afternoon and a squirrel was below him on the trunk. The guy had a 12 ga. pump and started shooting at the squirrel as it started running up the tree. It was above him when he ran out of ammo....I had a guy walk under me one afternoon singing the Pure Prarie League song "AIMEE"...I whistled at him and he looked at me and started crying and ran away...TRUE Story...TOMBSTONE...been hunting this stand for 23 years and a bunch of critters have passed away from here, but the reason for the name is an old wooden Cross marking a grave is about 30 yards from the stand. A long ago hunting accident is what we're told.......DROP-TINE...23 years hunting this one also and bow-killed 3 from it this year. JC has hunted it a few times. THE perfect funnel and Barry, Gene, or any white tail hunter would put a stand here just from looking at an Aerial Photo....POISON...just put this stand up last year and haven't shot a deer from it BUT passed up 2 bucks that I regret not shooting now and 10 minutes after the fact...Long walk and a canoe to get too it and the most sign around this stand as I've ever seen..Perfect location and the only tree to put a stand in is completely covered in Poison Sumac..I can get around this stuff and get it all over me. Spent a day in the emergency room 2 years ago because of it....but you just cant believe the amount of sign around POISON :goldtooth: There lots more but i'm tired of typing...maybe later...SORRY for rambling but lots of great memories and a great thread....Don Wilson
I hold off naming mine as well...
I have the BONEYARD (aptly named as it's buck central, but also where I've found the skeletal remains of 3 deer- yes its very thick. :smileystooges: ..)
the crossroads- duh.. a;; trails lead through this area... :knothead:
The honey hole- (a place that does love as the honeysuckle is prevelent... been low on bucks though- but much venison comes in freezer has come from this spot )
the loop- where I have a 2-man stan hat gets hunted exclusively by none other than my now 9 y.o son... we see a bunch of deer , but he keeps waiting in that perfect shot where the deer stand still broadside for 4 minutes... I have no idea where he gets his patience from...must be Momma-after all she puts up with me :bigsmyl: )
It is funny to see common names on stands. We also have the honey hole, the bone yard, the grave yard, and poison ivy on various properties I have hunted. We have also had the play house, the widow maker, the killin' tree, the big oak, the grocery stand (shopping is a pleasure), the back yard stand, doe hill, piebald, big buck, and sasquatch just to name a few.
The sasquatch stand was actually on a piece of property in PA that I hunted with a friend of mine. He said the first time he hunted there he spooked a horse in the adjacent pasture and he thought sasquatch was after him.
Like most of you, we generally let a stand earn a name.
House of Ill Repute-all a buck has to do is show up in this area, there are a pile of does that hang out this area
Mr. Miller's stand...An old black man lived next to this stand and drank lots of Miller...and used the area for his bathroom. Always an excellent stand.Plenty of cover scent.
Miller Lite...not far from Mr. Miller's.
Princess's stand, We lease half of our land from her grand mother.
Mike's stand
Hole in the fence.
The Hook, near the hole in the fence
Coors Ave. food plot/road leading to Coors food plot. Coors can marked the original trail.
The funnel
Rattle snake ridge
Coyote hollow
Knott's landing, where a drunk member(Knott)fell out of his stand. He's no longer a member!
The donut, because of its shape
Home Site, Where the original home site was on this property.
I hunt on the ground, but still tend to name the spots, just like I used to name Grouse coverts. brush pile, blowdown, big pine, gopher hole, and Step-and-a-half (long story)
my fav is my "triple death" stand. In a span of under 30 minutes I filled 3 archery tags one evening....all 3 deer dropped within sight. Its pretty cool looking out from your stand and seeing 3 white bellies in different directions :D 2 does and a 9pt buck
The Theater - Moonshine Falls - Dynamite Shack - Tree of Life - Sunburst - Taj Mahal - The Vine Stand - White Knife - Buck Hill - Sawdust Pile - Berry Patch - Protection Point - Trick Stand - Front Row (ground blind) and Box Seats (tree stand same area)...gotta run...if I think of any more, I'll post em later....
Too F. Short. Someone should sit on him. lol Only one I have. Mike
Terry, I only know of where 1/2 of those are...we need to talk :goldtooth:
Thanks guys. Some great choices here. The names reminded me of several more I forgot to mention. Triple Play; Double Play and regretfully, Strike Out. We also have a Far East and Middle East that no one wants to go to. bw
Morning Star, you seem to have a fetish there :-)
"Scheiss Haus".....it's not used much for a real stand 8^).
Dad,
I ran your question past Logan and she demands that you name a stand "Panda Princess Ariel Cinderella". Don't ask me why......just a 4 year old reasoning I suppose. She named her hamster the same thing.
I like Grampa Barry's Gutpile....
The Grandbaby has spoken!
I guess we'll have a stand named Panda Princess Ariel Cinderella this year...
Make sure it's one of those sissy screaming eaglets or something not one of the big man Deslodge stands......
Sounds like a great spot for Biggie to sit!!!
I prefer "Dump Shot", "Easy Pickins", "Booner Stand", "Can't Miss", "Book Buck", "Hog City".
Usually I get "The Nursery", "Kindergarden", "Sunday School" "Pre School"
Funny thing is that Biggie and The Wensel's usually set me up!
I should change the name of my tree stand, I guess, right now it is called "the tree stand I put up by my ground blind so no one will put a tree stand by my ground blind and claim the whole damn area for the queen" . My other one is simply called "The widow maker", it has the same job, just in a different place.
"Devil Head" Home of the huge bodied buck with little spikes.
"The Honey Hole" Shot a sweeeet buck there one day when I was on my Honey's sh*tlist!!
"Juicy Doe" Favorite hangout for hot Does, and where there's a hot doe....
"Corny Corner" or "Corny Horny Corner" or just "Corny Horny" Kinda modeled after that old song... "Why dont we do it in the corn... no one will be watching us...why dont we do it in the corn?" Ok so the song said "do it in the road" but artistic license can be taken during the rut.
Lucky Stand - first bow kill, and several after
The Oak stand - oak lot
Corner Stand - Inside corner of a field
Condo - A huge tree my Dad talked about building a treehouse size stand in, didn't see any deer so it was never built
Poop Stand - We had just built our hunting cabin that summer. I had several buddies hunting with me and I had trails cut with stands located along the way. I would drop a guy off as I walked along with me ending in the Lucky Stand. The first stand was along a creek below the cabin. I dropped a buddy off there and as light came on he noticed the ground surrounding him was white with toilet paper. Apparently that spot was a favorite of one of the guys helping us build the cabin before we got the outhouse built.
Big Oak
Harry's stand - Harry built it
Rock stand - next to a big boulder
It's a buck! - One of my friends was hunting out of this stand on the edge of a swampy area with his son. His luck hadn't been good for years so I invited him to come hunt with us. Finally a deer emerges out of the thicket and his son whispers. "Dad, there's a deer." Then in a slightly louder voice "...and it's a buck!" Exit deer.
Bear stands...
"MasterBAITion Station"
Fitting for stands that have alot of action and those with none.
Sorry!
Why do we call them "stands"? Wouldnt "sits" be more appropriate?
Well, we have;
The Bates Motel. for all the killin that's taken place.
The Jane Fonda stand {nothing but pigs there}
Three buck
The cow stand {left a climber at the bottom of the tree and found a cow eating the straps off it the next morning}
The crossroads{Four trails come together}
The Kung Fu stand {climbed up into it at the crack of dawn to find a snake waiting and Tom said it look like a Kung Fu movie when I was moving so fast.}
The meat locker.
The White Owl stand.
I'll remember so more and post later.
I want to hear how "Biggie's Upper Lip" got it's name. That's got to be a good one. :biglaugh:
I want to hear how "Biggie's Upper Lip" got it's name. That's got to be a good one. :biglaugh:
Stand names:
Bent tree stand
Spooky Stand
Gate stand
Double stand
Powerline stand
"Freezer Filler" is one of mine. It's a tiny open patch in super dense cover that has always produced a doe. :thumbsup:
Biggie's Upper Lip is in a little hardwood bowl where Biggie Hoffman shot his best whitetail buck to date. I picked the tree for him and he came through with flying colors. There's also a Biggie's Lower Lip for a different wind direction. If you ask him nice maybe he'll post a picture of his buck for you guys. bw
My favorite stand is called "Thumper":^)
QuoteOriginally posted by Barry Wensel:
Biggie's Upper Lip is in a little hardwood bowl where Biggie Hoffman shot his best whitetail buck to date. I picked the tree for him and he came through with flying colors. There's also a Biggie's Lower Lip for a different wind direction. If you ask him nice maybe he'll post a picture of his buck for you guys. bw
That was pretty embarrassing for me. Here I am, a serious whitetail hunter for nearly forty years and had to have Uncle Barry pick a tree for me :help:
I had a stand in THE SPOT, or so I thought. 3 great runs coming together, 8" cedar trees torn to bits, two good, active scrapes and even a sighting of this buck one day going in.
I sat the stand several times and saw some dinks but not the big one. I asked Barry to check out my setup and he walked around a bit then disappeared over the ridge. Few minutes later I hear a low whistle. I walk over and he says "right here". I've hunted with the bearded one long enough to know that when he says "right here" you need to move your stand.
2 sits later in a sleet and snow squall, I look up to see this baby coming down the tubes. He took the wrong trail and ended up walking by at 28 yards. I drew on him twice trying to get the right "feel" the 3rd time was a charmer. Everything felt good and I released a perfect arrow. He stopped, looked around for about ten seconds and fell over.
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