Waiting for action I decided to take some place shots of my hunting spot. My stand's platform is 18 ft up in a multiple-trunk red maple. In each of the first three shots the camera is pointed out 25 yards from 20 ft up.
Facing South
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West
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North
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And the deer's view to the East. I'm nested in a maple tree. 250 yards up the hill is my house.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/HPIM2662.jpg)
This spot is 400 yards in from a field (horse pasture) to the North with a powerline and brushlot in between. three old deer trails (one 20 yards to the North is a neighbor's logging road) intersect here in an asterisk pattern. A few feral apple trees that occasionally sport scrapes (none yet this year). 100 yards to the west is a year-round creek and then a hillside of woods (hemlock, hickory, ash & maple).
Lets see some of your for a feel of what other hunting spots look like.
Here you go. About 15 feet up and if you look real close you can see a little BB bedded about 45 yards away:
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and here he is zoomed in:
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I watched him for about 2 hours Sat. morning.
Nice pics.
But, two4hooking, dude you're gonna have to resize that big picture or you could risk getting banned!
Just letting you know.
I took this a couple of mornings ago; the deer have a very well worn trail near the cottonwoods; I am hunting 90 percent from the ground this season, and this is one of my good spots. I killed the deer on my avatar within 100 yards of this spot.
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Pretty pics, especially that last one. So far this year, I don't have any good spots (hurricane Irene messed it all up) to take a pic of but if I get one later, I'll take a pic. They are supposed to do a controlled burn in the National forest this week and, if they get 'r done this time, that should help clean things up a lot.
This is a view from a whitetail treestand of a peak called"Manhead".I zoomed in on it.
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A view from the antelope blind after a storm.
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Sunset from the antelope blind.
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