It seems that we all have names for are favorite haunts. Now most of the names develope over time with hunting partners. Some get names for geogrphic reasons some from animals we seen or ect.. Now if I tell my wife I'm going to the elk spot she know excatly were I am. I have killed 3 elk there and help 2 others. Now in elk camp among friends we will know where "Wally's world" is or "Island in the sky" is after years of hunting together. Another friend I tell him lets go to the "6x9 funnel" he know's were and my favorite "The meet up spot". Let's here some of your names and maybe the story.
i'll start. Mine is called the Rock Fort. It is a patch of ground on my dad's farm that i have taken quite a few deer from. it is also known as Nate's spot. It is a ladder stand on top of a 20 foot tall rock. You can see a long way from that tree. We also have a stand called the killin stand. I bet you can guess how that name came to be. We have a tally cut in the wood with my dad's, brother's and my intials with the running deer tally underneath.
The standing joke about the rock fort is that the only way I will let anyone even think about hunting it is by leasing the spot to them!!Haha
I let my brother go there during gun season one time because i had already seen a bucketfull of deer there and let them go and he was going through a dry spell. Well he renamed the stand rock SH*^ because he did not see anything. I shot a 7 point the next day out of it!!!
Me & my hunting partner named this north slope "scrape mt." some big elk have torn up that side with 8-9 ft. scrapes. Another is "sleepy tree" fell asleep or just took a cat nap,while 4 elk were standing there watching us..our snouring must have called them in"
When I was a kid my Dad and I had a spot called The Bottleneck. The name doesn't require explanation. Most of my childhood hunting memories are from there. The first several pages of hero pics in the Father/Son album were taken within bow range of each other in that spot.
I now have one I call The Buck Stand. Obvious.
Then theres the Survey Tape Stand. The first time my buddy and I walked through the spot we kicked up a doe, so he immediately tied several feet of flagging tape around a tree. The tape is still there. As long as you can see the tape from your stand, you'll probably see deer too.
trapping spot- spook hill, a name my dad gave it when i was younger and trapped there(said he flet like he was being watched)
fishing spots( dead cow cove- uncle caught a dead cow; mama bear papabear- same cove split in two; the big hole- deepeset place in cypress creek, also a hunting spot.
hunting spots. cross the creek, its across the creek, couch mountain, more of a big hill, squirle camp, and the slough. my hunting spot are not very creative are they.
#1 Gomez
#2 The clover leaf
#3 The carpet stand
#4 leaf dump
I could keep going, there has been many that have come and gone.
Aww man I love naming my spots:
1.The Blue Plastic Trail: an elk hunny hole that was marked by a friend in 1963 with bits of an old blue poncho he found in his pack. I have a piece of that plastic and I swear it glows now that Jack is dead.
2. The hourglass: I pinch between 2 fields that looks like an hourglass from the air. There have been 6 140 or better deer killed outa that tree in 10 years.
2. The outhouse: an old "2 seater" outhouse is all that is left of an old homestead. I have a stand hung there and killed the best deer of my life with my recurve (see Avatar) and another Dandy Buck last year.
I Love this thread already!
I had a bear bait that I went to once that the guide called the SH@THOLE (if you know what I mean). It was the most god awful mesquito infested sh@thole I've ever been in. There's no way anyone could have ever shot a bear there as you needed a windshield wiper to keep the skeeters off of your face and out of your netting and everywhere... I just wanted to run away from there 10 minutes into let alone, 5 hours... I still have nightmares!
Bridog
"The Trough"
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I've got one I call the bachelor pad and a big buck corner that are pretty special.
The best stand location i ever hunted was behind the dollar store in carrolton Al.
We called it the dollar store stand.
I killed some very nice bucks 500yds behind that store.
We have Mt Dew trail, there is a pop can hanging in the tree, and has been there for a long time. I have the crapper stand, which is next to an outdoor crapper where some guys rifle hunt, there is Moose bait. My bear bait next to Moose Creek, the point where the hardwoods meets the swamp. Man there are tons of them now that I think about it, but if you were listening to us talk, you would be confused.
We got one we call the "hole" another called the Bike field.Gator lake,The "corner". Of course we got easy ones like the Crabapple stand or the three persimmons or the Y . But as a rule you gotta live HOURS away before I show`m to ya.RC
I have a tiny little water hole I call 5 bull. Only because one time I had 5 bull elk come in together. 3- 3 points, a 5 and a 6. No shot was taken but that is a long story. Never seen an animal on it over the last 15 years. Timing is everything and I have ants in my pants when I'm hunting.
PERSIMMON PATCH is a deadly funnel here on my place . You could walk through it 100 times and never dream the bucks funnel through there like they do . You can see 4 houses from this stand . I took my only buck that qualifies for P&Y from that stand during firearms season.
The REFRIGERATOR is a a stand the sun never hits on and you freeze when setting in it , but the deer like it !
The CHUTE is a place that funnels the deer by you because of a rock cliff everywhere else on that side of the hill .Nov 5th 2007 I saw 11 bucks on that stand in one morning, we don't have that many deer either.
GAR HOLE everyone who has set this stand sees nothing but me :)
HACHET CORNER - a fence corner that has a hachet stuck in the tree from someone working on the fence line years ago .
A couple quick ones:
Ernie's Hill
The West Point
Swampfoot
I have the swamp hole,and the beaver ridge.
We call my best elk spot "the meat locker"
One of my deer spots we call "the ghetto"
One in WV called the gut pile ridge and one here in Ga called copperhead stump. I forgot the one in Mio, Mi called the Bear Track Path...
My dad had a hot spot where two trails crossed. It was reffered to as "Hollywood & Vine".
Hog Graveyard
The Killing Tree
Old Faithful
The Crossing
Junk Pile
The Dump
Some are gone but not forgotten. SOme I still hunt.
I've got one called "Moose Nest", another called "The Gate", and "Bob's". :thumbsup:
Browning Bottoms
The Rockhouse
The Cut Down
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The Inlaws
The Amacker
the spring
the dog leg
spike tree
mulberry tree
go too
I took the old man way back in the swamp one cold morning to a spot he liked to call the A$$ H@(E of the World. He said I would never shoot a deer back this far, the words left his mouth seconds before we walked up on a fresh one. He said after Idrag it out I'll need to come back to drag him out.
Thunder Ridge is my turkey hotspot, 10/10 in 10yrs on gobblers with the bow!
The Spit Stand is a tree stand that is always good for filling the freezer as the deer are only about 4 yards away and clueless to your presence until its to late!
Swamp Thing is a spot that can only be reached by wearing hip waders and is a good spot to hunt when the rut is on and the deer start to get pressured! Its a funnel deer use to get out on to a slough island! Get in there early and make a cattail blind and listen for the splashing! Bucks take does there to get away from other bucks and hunters i think! Its a pain gettin em out but a few dandys have been taken in there, and a few wet hunters to boot:)
Rattlesnake Rapids. A small water hole low in the mountains with lots of cedar trees and rock formations. It is in a limited draw unit,my cousin harvested a really nice 365 Bull in 08 while hunting it from a blind. In 09 I was lucky enough to draw the same tag and harvested a smaller 5x4 from the same blind. People just assume the Elk do not live in this area. It received its name from you guessed it the high population of rattlers in the area. My father in law is trying to draw the unit now even after he heard all the stories of the snakes.
i'm pretty sure i was the 1st person to ever hunt this remote swamp on cape york peninsula.
turned out to be quite good! i called it the 'honey hole'
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other spots are- the lupin paddock
the mill paddock
deer gully
currajong
goat lookout
30 boar swamp
tea tree
scrub bull creek
glenn's corner
some bear hunting spots in canada-
the irish queen
hidden slide
the golf course
the guide slide
The mother of all wallows
The Bachelor Pad
Chump rock
Mt Krumpet pass
Coffee Pot wallow
My meat stand is called the grocery store, My best stand for bucks is called the bow stand. Got the ridge patch, Fern Gully, three way corner, the killing shack and the hell hole.
the hell hole is a big hole back in the spoil banks and if your gonna stick one back in there it had better be a booner cause your gonna play hell getting out. LOL
Oh yeah almost forgot about the boat seat.
Possum ridge...named that because a club member stuck a deer and needed help tracking...the friend he got to help upon finding so little blood to follow said to him joking...man you didn't shoot a deer' it had to be a possum..lol so after sharing this with other members the area got it name :biglaugh:
the abyss - a ground blind beside a ridge. One day my dad and I were hunting it in the snow and looking out off the ridge it looked like you were looking into the abyss and the name stuck
bedrock - ground blind next to a flat rock i would always take a nap on mid day
Katie's Crotch been very,very,good to me...
My best stand was in Missouri and was named after me but not by me. This stand was called Elmer's corner. It had 4 different type of terrain meeting. One corner had evergreen trees, one was crop fields, one was a larger track of bigger timber, and the other was CRP brush. It should of actually been called intersection. I never sat in that spot that I did not see from 3 to 12 deer morning or night. At least 50 % of the deer I saw came out or in right under the large oak tree my stand was in.
Some of my favorites.
Woodpecker World
Wounded Tree
Big Tree
The Gateway
Bob's Bog
El Diablo
Bear Skull Wallow
Rock Wall Willows
have a spot in burns i call "heaven in the pines".awesome big pines deep grass with shade everywhere and the best part is its the main hub of trails in the area..everything goes through heaven. :readit:
OLOL stand
Big Friendly
Pit Blind
Kris' P&Y stand
The Turkey Breeder
The Plum Patch
The Four Corners
Two Buck stand
The Volcano
Gene's 350 stand
The Fertilizer stand
Upper Mauer's
The Juniper
The Ivy Patch
to name a few, Kris
I had a deer stand we called blood alley.
My brothers found a spot on a place that we hunt every year for the first few days of archery. They switch off every year on who gets to hunt it. We just call it "the corner". We usually take 2 or 3 deer off it every year in the first couple days of season and some pigs have come from that stand too. We never hunt the place after the first few days of archery each year because it is a couple hours drive away.
The killing field
The Taj
Horseshoe
Bottleneck
"Killer Tree"
The canoe stand
The crossing
The ghost field
Peanut butter
Rock mountain
Old Faithful
Two Barns
Top stand
Brute
Hay Bails
Me lucky charms plot
I had a hill my trapline trail went over, almost had a fox in it every time started calling it "sure fire hill"
8 point stand, black powder stand, billy-bob stand, corner stand, cocoon stand, Howard's old stand, & wasp nest stand.
the candy stand because its like takin candy from a baby
Triple X i watched a 155" + whitetail breed a doe 40 yards in front of me on crisp fall morning name seemed fitting
My favourite is "Hig Voltage" and no I ain't
saying where it is.....and KUDOS to LittleJake too :thumbsup:
Yea LittleJake!!!
Notellum crick.
The Dead Sea. I saw 6 bucks in this area one morning about 10 years ago. Now me and my buddy Knobby don't see any deer in there. So i guess it's living up to it's name.
The Kromer stand. I shot a buck from this stand wearing my new Kromer hat.
just named one of mine yesterday. I usually will have the name pop in my head after hunting it for a bit. I was pulling stands yesterday when i came up with "corn cob". there was a single cob lying about 15 feet from the tree yesterday and I have no idea where the heck it came from. the closest corn field is probably 1/2 mile away. the stand is along a creek in thick woods.
some others:
Rob's Roost
Ed's Ridge
water hole
helo pad
football field
the condo
dam dam
Here's a few I've hunted over the years.
Hap's Hump
The triangle
Bear Ally
Diving Board
The Old Truck
Fern Hollow
The muscadine stand on the back forty
Chickadee stand, Underwear stand(you can guess), Candybar stand, Basket stand, The plateau, Volcano, One less, The slashing, The birch stand, Opening day,....
We have several on the farm I hunt whitetail, turkey, and coyote.
GOAT MOUNTAIN, across from the CATAWBIE TREE. Steep enough only a goat would try it.
DOO-LITTLE, do little than wait till about dark and you will see deer.
TIN CAN HOLLOW - Old dump site from years ago, it's cleaned up now.
THE HOUSE FOUNDATION - Hunt from the sandstone ruins of an 1800's era house.
COYOTE ROCK - Overhaning rock cave coyoties den in from time to time.
THE KNOB - A deer fortress. The ridge is a round like knob. From the top deer, turkey, etc. can see ya coming from any angle. Tough spot, but the challenge is rewarding.
LEANING TREE - Up a steep draw used to be a huge oak tree that leaned over the draw. Great placed to still hunt under the tree and out of the weather.
RED GATE - Another great still hunting place by the red gate.
My favorite one that Gene Wensel though of was "slut's saddle"! Classic!
I have a great tree on my lease in ILL. My buddy calls it the sh#tty tree. Yes , got one of those to much breakfast pains after settleing into my climber. No way to climb back down. Guess the rest . Randy
Most all the names of the holes come from excursions with my cousin, ArkyBob.
This time of year my first thought goes to the turkey hunting spot we call the "Hidey Hole." A place in the Ozarks that is a natural blind with rock faces that let you sit like you're in a recliner. The cedar trees overhang to give you shade and cover.
Duck hunting spots are numerous but the ones that come to mind as most memorable are "Snow Hole" that got it's name from the most beautiful day of duck hunting I can remember; huge snowflakes AND ducks floating down through the timber. The other one is "Dog Hole" named from an incident after a hunt when my black lab, Champ, almost filled my buddy's boat when he finally peed for a looong time and the look on his face was simply relief. What made it so funny was that he got out of our boat and into my buddy's boat to do it. GOOD BOY!!
Hope to take a turkey this year with my longbow from the "Hidey Hole". Beautiful spot. PowDuck, I'll see ya there.
BOB