I think last year there was a great thread on stand names. Some are named after historic events or kills, some are named by their location. It really cuts down on the long description of where some action took place. It was really good. Post a pic if ya got one. Let's do it again..
I'll start
Wooded food plot stand- Self expanatory
Hidden spring stand
Black hole stand
Rub City
Spinn's stand- nickname
S. Cutline stand
Mossy Knoll Creek stand
Spoon-It's in a bowl
3 stump
Triple X- Bud watched a doe get bred
Lookout- covers a big area
Triple tree
Nine squirrel- First sit bud had nine squirrels in sight at one time
Springhole
What ya got?
The Beech Tree Crossing.
Neil's Stand.
The Bingo. (As in "Bingo"....that's the one)
Spice Bush.
Ore Hole.
Lewis Rock.
Yellow Jacket Heaven. 8^).
Tannery Hill.
Twin Hickories.
F-Troop Stand. (Rock that looks like bear 8^))
Three of my favorites to hunt localy are.
#1 Maple Row
#2 The Corner
#3 yellow chair.
Great thread. Here are a few:
Slayer stand
5 Trees
Postage stamp
2-Man stand
Twin towers
The hole
Pootoo hill
The walnut
Fresh rub secret spot
Leaner
45 mph stand
6 acres
pumphouse
Kenny's bucket
The Mavrick
Back of the bowl
GLENN
If ya got a name that's not obvious, ya gotta give an explanation....
Bingo?
Yellow chair?
Postage stamp?
Pootoo?
:)
Awesome Watch
Pinhead
Big Rub
The Notch
The Hole
2910
Big Art's Notch
The Love Yard
Secret Stream
The Big Rock
The Barrel
Arrietta Ridge
Slippery Stream
Otter Mt.
Pillsbury
Little Moose
Homestead
Beartrack
Mulberry
Surprise Jake
Proving Grounds
Killer Corner
Traditions Ridge
Backfield
Skeleton
Two Gobbler Paradise
Isn't it cool how people that choose to challenge themselves the way we do with traditional archery also parallel each other in naming stands in meaningful ways... great thread!
The Yellow chair stand I mentioned above is named after an old fashioned steel lawn chair that sets at the base of a giant white oak on some public land near me. This is one of those chairs like the ones my grandmother had on the front porch and probably weighs 40 pounds and is a loooooong way back in there. Whoever originaly packed that thing in must have had one heck of a workout!
Twin Oaks two twin oaks that make for an easy climb and the other is close enough to hand your jacket, etc.
Yellow Birch Stand
My spot cause its my spot
Big Meadow
Big Pine
Three Pines this one is famous for missed deer
Oak Ridge
The Pines
Olson Swanson Road
Beaver Pond
We always name our stands so when talking we are on the same page. :)
crows nest
light house
castle
hidey hole
Darrels barn
beaver hole
green patch
These are a few in place for this year.
The Hole
Stockyard
Dues(You pay your dues to reach this stand)
Mountain Top
Point blind
Cop shop
Wind row
Log cabin blind
Porky tree
Killing stand is my favorite This one tree has 5 130 class and larger bucks taken.And i have missed a few others lets not talk about them.My favorite wind is a south west .
Blowdown
cedar glade
hell bluff
two creek
moneymaker
busy road
rock fall
I forgot N Creek stand and Turkey roost.
Sit in Turkey roost in the evening and there is a good chance of seeing turks go to roost
I've been a guest here for 30+ years but here they are plus some stands that are defunct due to being built on loblolly pine trees in a marsh which rot quickly.
#1 or Don's stand
Fred's stand (Fred died last year)
The new stand
Chauncey's old stand (fell down)
Earl's stand (fell down)
The middle of the path
The park (replaced)
The flower stand (named for a flowered curtain used as a cover)
The yellow stand (named for a yellow tarp used as a cover)
Wayne's stand
Charlene's old stand (fell down)
Kenny's stand
Chrissy's island (on other's property)
Dick's stand (fell down)
The last one on the left (on other's property)
The last one out (fell down)
Love reading the names and back stories.
The "postage stamp" stand refers to where the stand is. We hunt a farm with a large rectangular block of woods. In the top right corner there is a small block of woods that juts up and out like a postage stamp on an envelope. Nice and thick in there with lots of deer.
Turtle shell
Salad Bar
Gate tree
Ladder Tree
Rockpit Draw
Missing stand
Windmill of Doom
Deer Tree
The Gauntlet
Swirly Stand
The Bush
Dave's Ravine
Jim's stand (We don't hunt with anyone named Jim)
Super Highway
Little Slough
Big Slough
Corner Stand
Meat market
2 does down
Cambodia
chicken foot
Ours are kind of tame apparently...
Secondary hunting location:
* Dylan's hollow
* The beach
* Northern point
* The flats
* Eastern trail
* Oak knoll
Our primary hunting location has these (and others):
* The corner
* The big oak
* The middle ridge
* The blowdown
But my favorite is
* The dirty branch - my son had done some pruning on a huge blown down oak so that he could nestle back in there and ambush a couple of trails. After sawing through one biggish branch, he sprinkled a pinch of dry dirt on it - to camouflage it. Not sure why, but that just tickled me.
The Go To
Draw's End
Impossible Bottom
Last Minute
Crisscross
Beech Thicket
Have about 20 - 30 sites but these are the only with names.
I love the thread.
Corner stand
Middle stand
The point
Swamp Stand
lilltle corn feild
the Double
The leaning stand
Loading deck
Jack's Stand (even though he doesnt hunt with us anymore)
Power line
Oak Grove
Saw Dust Pile
Satan's Draw
The Cooler
Doug's Stand
Sit the point
Pine stand
The Rock
Brother Bruce's Draw
Behind the Cabin
double rub
double bucket
swamp
beaver tree
monument
way the f%&$
The Ditch
holy grove
honey hole
Thats just few
My favorite stand name in my woods is the Opossum Stand. It's a ladder stand and my buddy was hanging it. He finished setting it against the tree and climbed up to set the straps. Just when he got eye level with the platform a huge opossum had his teeth out and was hissing something awful from inside a hole in the tree that was unnoticed until then. He screamed like a litle girl and just about fell out of the stand. I fell over laughing!!
Dang, I don't name my bows and don't name my stands, am I still Traditional? I move stands around so much, never thought to name them, and I usually hunt alone so don't really converse with anyone about them.
I only have one. So, it's name is "my syand".
-Jeremy
Hunting with Molson sounds sumthin like this, My stand, The spot I told you about, The spot Im gonna hunt, The area near where I told you about. The tree I found for ya
Mr Miller's stand, long story
Miller light, near Mr Miller's
Mike's stand, self explanatory
Rattlesnake ridge, self explanatory
Coyote hollow, one member got trapped there one evening by a pack of yelling coyotes
hole in the fence, guess
the hook, at a hook in the road
the home site, at the old home site
the Indian princess' stand, another long story
the Teepee, near Princess' stand
Knott's landing, Where Mr Knott hit the ground!
the triangle, in the triangular plot of land
the back gate,not far from coyote hollow
the main gate, at the entrance
Coor's Ave, originally marked with a coors can on a stick
Coor's food plot. at the end of Coor's Ave
.....all on 250acs.
Poop Stand
The Condo
Staging Area
Lucky Stand
Its a Buck!
Angel Tree
Another thing we do is name logging roads and main trails. This also stops alot of confusion about where something happened. Where did you see that buck? He was on Dip road, halfway up the hill towards West Main.
We started doing this #1 it's fun for us. #2 there was a guy that hunted with us for a while that when you would ask him where he hunted or where he saw something he would go on for 5 min trying to describe the place where he was and then you still weren't sure of where he was talking about. Know anybody like that? :)
So we have:
Mossy Knoll Rd
West Main
Dip Rd
Rutt Road
East Main
Shed Alley
We have a couple more trails we need to name.
I picked a tree out for Biggie Hoffman one year back in the late '90s that he killed his biggest buck ever from. We actually had two stands in that bowl we called "Biggies Upper Lip" and "Biggies Lower Lip". A big tree fell naturally this spring (Biggie had nothing to do with it) that changes the movement patterns, so we pulled the original stands and placed a killer stand half way between the upper and lower lips. We've renamed the new stand "Biggies Dentures". bw
p.s. I don't know how to post pics but if someone wants me to forward pics I'll forward what the trail cameras showed last week. bw
Never mind. Maybe I better not post photos until after the season. Sorry. bw
Thats not fair :banghead:
killdeer2008@gmail.com
I could teach even you to post pics.
You could teach me how to read deer woods.
I have been hunting the same place since 1986. Most of my stand sites are named for deer that I have killed there. Alphonse Pass,
Clyde's Point,
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PeeWee Stand,
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Yorick's Gulch. Then there is The Pawn Shop, a blowdown of three cherry trees with a pit at the base of the upflung roots.
There is the Shelter Ridge, behind the chestnut Adirondack, First and Second Horn of the Shelter Ridge, and The Bowl. The Stadium. Spaghetti Junction (tangled trails in a major junction of creeks and ridges). Heart Attack, Mac's Ridge, Turkey Ridge, The Finger, Plane Wreck, The Puffball Tree. The Bears' Poo Hall. The Beaver Ponds are now a meadow, but the name remains.
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Sweet, sweet to think on these names and feel the places they represent.
Killdeer
bear trail
river watch
pine valley
camp trail
the meat corner --- see lots of small deer
the horshoe --- trail bends there
the wedge
the refrigerator ---- old refrigerator there
the gas can-- because of an old gas can there
doe hollow
the way in the back ditch
the beaver dam
the blowdown
QuoteOriginally posted by No-sage:
Awesome Watch
Pinhead
Big Rub
The Notch
The Hole
2910
Big Art's Notch
The Love Yard
Secret Stream
The Big Rock
The Barrel
Arrietta Ridge
Slippery Stream
Otter Mt.
Pillsbury
Little Moose
In addition the those we also have:
Buckshot Trail
1st Clearing (from camp)
2nd Clearing (guess from where)
3rd Clearing (see a pattern here)
River Crossing (there's more than one, but everyone knows where this one is)
The Blue (Blue Ridge)
The Belly of the Beast (don't get caught up in there, especially with dark coming)
The Finger
The Second Stream
The Parking Lot
Little Feet's Chair
Little Feet is an 80yo man who has a camp near us. When we first started hunting in our area, we would always run into his little feet prints. There was seemingly nowhere you could go where Little Feet hadn't already been. Just when you thought you had gotten to a secluded, far away spot...... there were Little Feet's tracks. We met him after a few years of calling him Little Feet and the name stuck. Now we all just call him Feet. Now that he's older, we don't see his tracks like we used to. He pretty much hunts his chair now out back of his camp a little ways up the mountain. :campfire:
The living room
Skinny's Tree
3 Rocks
Cardiac Hill
The Foundation
A few of the named stands at our place:
Edgar's nob(don't ask)
The Bubba stand
The gob pile
The outhouse stand
All of these stands have seen great action over the years.
The Island
Brown Gate
Down the Line
Airstrip
8 Dollar Bottom
Buck Road
Crackerjack
Doe Run
Party House
The Back
Tobacco Barn
Most are easy to figure out why.
High Back
Fied Stand
No Name
Trail Stand
Old Mans Stand. This one got its name because my late Uncle took a kitchen chair to the top of the hill behind his house 20/25 years ago. Shot a nice ten point and never brought the chair back home. The rusted frame is about 20 yards from the stand. Feels special every time I hunt here.
Hmmm never really contemplated the stand names we use but they have become common knowledge around the campfire at what has become our little camp (The Broken Arrow Lodge) which consists of some old military surplus gear and what ever we find comfortable to bring along.
Five Fingers (five little fingers of varying cover come together at this point)
14 Point blind (yeah one member of our party saw this toad!)
Ivy Tree (you guessed it, one bad case of poison ivy hanging this stand)
Barbs Blind (dont argue with momma she shot a deer there and by gods its her blind now)
8 Point blind (seems like anyone can take an 8 point from this blind)
River Bottom (no explanation needed)
The Beer Tree (former hunter on the property had approximately 8 silver bullet cans at the bottom of this tree and as many stuffed into a hollow in the tree. Kinda makes you wonder were they really there to hunt or just to hide a drinking problem?)
There are more but they havent really earned names at this point.
Lazy Man's Canyon - close to the road
Four Pines - self explanatory
The Pitchy Pine - (1 ruined shirt)
The Big Tree
The kid's stand - kid missed an elk from here
Elk Stampede Stand - very noisy at times
Rattlesnake - NOT a good way to find a stand name
I've got more in my brain somewhere.
Brett
Our favorite stand (that nobody has killed an animal in...ever in over 20+ years) is...
OLD FRIEND
Other successful stands that we name are...
The Kill Site
The Bowl
The Sandy Area
corn king
big rock
hartford buck
tag alder
20 below
Jerrys field
Dollar store field
Todds stand
10 point tripod
Stump field
Beaver swamp stand
Radio tower shooting house
Dirt road field
Gravel road shooting house
Tower stand
Pond field
Ole man lock on
Garys place
J.R. stand
Barrys stand
Joes hole
end of the earth blind- way out from the beaten path
dont look now clearing- long embarrassing story
Yeah a bunch:
Gar Hole- From Primos - only good when acorns hit
Persimmon Patch - wonder why :)
Hachet stand-Ole double tree with hachet stuck in it from years ago.
Ice Box- shady side of mountain - I have froze there many times
Gate stand- old broken down gate that the deer still travel through in a low gap.
Boneyard - deadliest stand on my place.
Corner oak- Giant oak on where else corner of property.
House stand- In low gap behind house 85 yards - you can see someone setting in it from the house.
The shute - in between gap in rock cliff- straight up and down there.
Cave Stand- rock cave just below stand.
Max's stand - Where coyotes killed my Jack Russell terrier.
Many more.
Jack
A few that I have.....
Deliverance
Three Corners
The Sentinel
The Wall Stand
The Magic Stand
Hillside Oaks
Ridgetop Apples
The Rock Bottom Stand
The Hemlock Stand
Roadway Deer
Haven Hill Oaks
Swale Grass Stand
The Ladder Stand
The Upper Cut Stand
The Lower Cut Stand
Boulder Stand
There are more.......
David
The two that I use are : one-hung-low and one-hung-high...killed several deer out of one-hung-low.
Hole-in-the wall, Big and Little buckwheat, The sand hill, stone-point hemlock, The sand opening, the high-stand by the creek.
Here's a few Doe corner, Rub ridge, Ace in the hole, The seldom seen, The black water, The gravel pit, and many more TD.
I've got about 30 up right now, but some of the memorable ones are:
No Leaf Clover
Green (Heck)
East Africa
West Africa
In-Between
Big Sandy
Tight Squeeze
Rogue Dog II
Shaky Cedar
Corner Pocket
West End Mini-Mart
Riverside
Miracle Ridge
Switching Yard
Incognito
I used to hunt out of one that was on top of a hill at the corner of a woods it was an old broke down john deere combine i set in the seed bin it was a great stand- blind combo.and the other one i hunted out of and im sure other people probably have this one as well "Dads old stand ".
The Trestle Stand
Banana Ridge
My Uncle Jacks favorite "The Valley Of Many Muffs" because I missed about 6 deer in there..
"the black rocks"
Stand named because once we where driving to it a friend said , those black rocks where not there last time
those black rocks where javalina's
JAJAJJAJA forever named!!!!!!
I dont hunt out of stands but my favorite hunting area we named the "Sh!&^^&%$T house hunt". Mainly because my hunting partner, his initials are, Dale Williams, cannot walk past the outhouse there without using it...PR
My avatar pic is from the Bowl Stand. Some others are:
Poacher's Stand
Cottonwood Point
Happy Hollow
Mushroom Stand
Billy Bass Blind
The Narrows
Four Corners
The back ridge, the horse stand,Don's stand,the beech stand and my new one is the hemlock stand. I used to hunt out of a homemade stand called the Cadillac.
We have had many over the years, few come to mind. Many are overgrown,
Hickories
Corner stand
Black Thunder
The Gully
The Rock
Goblers knob
Honey hole
Wind city
Douche Bags
the hollow
the crick (creek)
Squirrel tree
The orchard
Pines
The Dam
Honey pit (due to the honey bee hives)
Hillside Inn
What great memories of good time had in the past.
the trespasser stand. Made out of wood so its mine now. I don't hunt the stand but I hunt next to it cuzz it is in an awesome spot.
The Oak Flat, Tea Pot, Boo-Boo Knob, Notch on Bolton, The Ledges, The Pinnical and a bunch I can't remember anymore...lol!