I like to start a thread every year about the names you give your stands. The're often very discriptive or have earned their name. My Bud and I name all our stands. We have a great time with it and it lets us know exactly where the other guy is.
So list your stand names and give a little story about them if you want. I'll start.... These are all ladder stands.
Point plot, damn stand, Bullseye (mark on the tree), Mossy Knoll, Upper Mossy Knoll, Spins stand, Spoon (It's in a bowl, Line stand, Hidden spring, Shed alley, 2 Hole stand, 3 rub, turkey roost, Ridge run, triple tree, N Creek stand, Rub City, Springhole, Towelhead (it;s in the middle eastern part of the property :) ) Wooded food plot.
I think that's it
The windmill, high creekbed, three forks creekbed, the arch blind, big cedar, big dead cedar, cottonwood laydown, osage crawler, turkey roost!, soybean ambush. All naturally enhanced ground blinds we've built over the past spring summer and early this 'fall', with the exception of the windmill blind A.C. built a couple of years ago.
Fun thread! Good idea!
The following are well used ground blinds ... places that get sat every year for good reason.
The cooler, Doug's stand, the hogs back, pines, the point,and the funnel.
Bob.
We have a damn stand as well, of course near the beaver dam. The spine, the doghouse, the boulder, the berm road, partridge lane, the metal stand, and Kathy's. I'm sure I've missed one or two but that's pretty much it.
Headed to camp this friday and I can't wait to visit all my favorite old haunts and find some new ones! The stands I've listed above are all places pretty close (within 2-3 miles) of camp, we have only just started exploring the state land that borders the property so I'm sure that we will have a few to add to the list every year!
First time on new land to hunt. I named my set, ( predators valley) because I saw no deer but called in a fox to about 5 yards before kissing his nose and sending him on his merry way, and drew back on two yotes but no shot.
I've got:
the mulberry tree
spike stand
doe tree
w spike stand
dog leg
go to
the corner
creek crossing
Pat's tree
the pond
JH
Lower JH
Great thread...
Proving grounds, surprise Jake, bear track, escape route, traditions ridge, hackberry springs, skyscraper...
Lots of good emotions just from thinking about those places and names.
Ck
Cabin stand (It's actually up the ridge behind the cabin)
Fenceline
Bald Face (upper & Lower)
Bowl
Triple Trunk
Turkey Corner
Middle Corner
Island
Big Buck
Flat Top
Wagon Wheel
Bachelor Pad
Saddle
The Point
I'm hunting all new property and public land at that this year. First time that I have been without a hunting lease since 1989! I am having a great time, but I miss some of the old spots I have hunted:
Honeyhole
Big Buck
Doe Hill
The Cane Bottom
Snake Hole
Briar Patch
Hog Graveyard
The Creek
Old Faithful
The Persimmon Stand
The Cow Pens
The Corner
The Amacker Stand (long long long long after we replaced the stand)
Coyote Ladder
Just to name a very few...
Well lets see.....Ive got...
Nosebleed
Honey Hole
Ridge blind
The rock
Buddy blind
The gap
Pasture blind
Good memories in every corner of the farms I hunt.
Some I've hunted.
Toy Truck
Tire Hole
Trophy Treestand
Death Trap
Sweetheart Tree
Walmart Stand
Lance's Tree
See The Truck
Coyote Curve
Dad's Tree
Junk Car
Rubs
Scrapes
The Point
Bridal Vale
Christmas Stand
Chuck's Stand
Chuck 2's Stand
Catalpa
Y Stand
Y2 Stand
Northwest Stand
Antler's Stand
Pines Stand
The Notch
Jungle Stand
Neil's Big Rock Stand
Neil's Ground Blind
Mt. Everest Ground Blind
Those are my Wisconsin stands
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
Kettletop
Pine Blind
Saddle blind
Lightning Point
The crossroads (my absolute favorite whitetail stand of all time)
Broken buck hollow
The cub well
White oak flats
Mike's miss 1
Mike's miss 2
The bowl
Little Sutherland
The field stand 1
The field stand 2
The Colorado stand
Boneyard
Tree house
Back fence line
Taint
Nosebleed
Corner
High line
Strip
Island
Livingroom
African blind
The Pea Patch
Razorback
The Orphanage
Big Daddys
Cotton mouth
The draw
Long food plot
The Tower of Power
The right of way
The Fort (old converted kids playset)
Justin's bucket
Black Squirrel Hill
The Island
Mule Barn
The ring-a-round
Pappys stand
Most of the other's are peoples' names
Skyline
The Living Room
The Meadow
2 Walls
The Honey Hole
Turkey Hill
Mike's Spot
The Nursery
Ambush
We need some stories behind some of these more desriptive names
Cooler, bear track (in MO?) baldface, wagon wheel, bachelor pad, toy truck, the rock (how big is this rock), se the truck. bridal Vale, kettle top and the orphanage.
John,
My brother found this track at our family farm near Springfield, MO 8-9 years ago. The spot has been named bear track ever since.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/ckinslow/track.jpg)
Funny now it may become less of a unique feature because the MDC says their are 400-600 bears now in the state. I think the population has really jumped in the last several years as my brother has a friend who got game camera pictures of a bear this fall in Missouri.
Pretty cool!
CK
theres usually 3 "thats my stand" "thats another one of my stands" and "I think thats one of my stands right there"
Ax-tree (old ax head stuck in the tree)
The "Box" (on the ground and well, a box)
The "Fort" (like the box but in the air)
Manure Shed (behind an old chicken manure shed)
20 footer (20')
Chimney stand (behind an old cannery chimney)
Buckingham (old travel trailer that was used by my grandparents and the landowners family as a deep woods hang out back in the day)
Most of our stands are named after person who generally has some loose claim of ownership to the equiptment and that person usually hunts that spot first, but it is a roulette after that.
John's Tree stand - John built it, but may not have ever hunted in it, but Mike did and killed a doe out of it.
Jake's Tree Stand - Now defunct, but still represents the tree, which is about 60 yards south of Hyma's old stand in the South East corner. Which, has been moved because the tree died. But now the whole SE corner is the Tri-Pod stand.
Mike's Tree stand, which is now Tony's Tree Stand because Mike moved up north.
The food polt - for obvious reasons... which is where Hyma's stand is now located.
The-clearing-across-the-creek-from-Uncle-Don's-old-Vega - Self explanitory.
However, since I ground hunt and usually only sit in impromptu set ups, my spots are named things like:
The-clump-of-bushes-just-south-of-"the"-beech-tree-no-the-big-one-yeah-by-the-hemlock-but-closer-to-the-creek...
One my son-in-law hunted last year we call "shakey".
My favorite "Luke's stand tree".
Bald Face, boo-boo knob, no name, spineless, the swale, big and little Corner and the Tea pot!
Brushpile - i built up a brushpile to direct deer to a closer trail that goes by the stand.
Old Pine Stand - there is an old stand that all that is left is the outer fram in this pine tree.
Moss Rub - big rub on this moss covered white oak tree.
Dogs stand - there isa dog in a nearby house that always barks when deer are moving by his fenced in yard.
PIA - I gave my friend joe this spot and I usually have to set the stand up for him etc. hence he isa pain in the $%^&
Big Rock
Double Trouble - had two nice bucks fighting 30 yards from me but brush bloked the way and the big one chased off the other buck away from my stand.
Twin Oaks
Climber first - found a good trail and decided to put up a stand in this oak about twenty yards away and there must have been 50 suitable trees along this trail but after i got mine set up I saw a limb that had been cut years earlier so I assume someone with a climber sat the tree first.
Squirrel corner, the swamp.
I love this... I have the
Top stand
Bottom stand
field blind
the mecca
too tall stand
The rat hole
the gully
Tunnel stand
Baby's stand
The ridge
The back stand
I can't really take credit for most of the names my dad seems to have gift for naming these spots I really don't know what I would do without him around to name them.
Poison Ivy
Cemetery
Tad Pole Hole
The Park
Agent Orange
Hidden Oaks
The Barrel
The Bath Tub
The Haint House
Pretty cool thread, I'm hunting new land this year too, so I only have 3 this year so far.
the maple
double oak
the cedars(sitting on the ground here haven't set it yet but am very excited about it)
The Holiday Inn
The Cherry Tree
The Stratosphere
The Pit Stand
The String tree
Here are a few of the more uniquely named ones.
The Orphanage:
We had a game and fish biologist come in and survey the habitat and buck to doe ratio, he gave us 25 doe tags for the season. We killed 10-12 of the does from that stand. It got the name from all the orphaned fawns running around up there .
We just say who evers stand like. Dads in the bottoms or mine on the ridge. But my Uncle has one he gun hunts out of that is 35 ft high we call the nose bleed stand.
John Krause asked for more descriptions of how stands acquired their names and mentioned a few of mine.
Bald Face sits at the top of a hillside that at one time didn't have much cover. It has since grown up to be very thick, but will always be known as Bald Face.
The Wagon Wheel stand is actually a new one this year, but seems to have trails approaching from every direction. Time will tell if it lives up to it's name. The challenge will be figuring out which wind direction works best.
Bachelor Pad is just as it sounds- the year it was first put up almost all the deer seen from it were bucks. Hasn't stayed lime that over the years, but the name stuck.
It's obvious from this thread that I am not alone in recalling fond memories from the mention of some favorite stand names.
Skyline- is an area on the edge of a steep drop off that overlooks a number of other ridges.
The Living Room- it's a bowl with 5 foot rock sides. You have about 12' x 12' to move round in it's also above the ground.
The Meadow- a large grassy area in the middle of hard woods.
2 Walls - a knob that with 2 walls on either side. Each wall has a break innthe middle deer travel through... Or at least we hope.
The Honey Hole- spot we have seen deer at every time scouting.
Turkey Hill- spot we alway find dropped turkey feather at
The Nursery- we alway saw fawns in this area while stumping over the summer
Mikes Spot - unless he doesn't come. Then it's Pete's Spot!
Ambush- a finger of rocks that covers you on 3 sides with 2 intersecting deer trails leading to it. The deer will not see younuntil they are totally committed.
For whitetails we have
The Buck bedroom (tight to a known buck bedding area that is always good for bucks during the rut)
Poplar point (self explanatory, partner saw a 150 class at the end of last season... high hopes for that stand area this season)
Island (not too original)
beaver slide (river edge with some beaver fall and a cool slide down to the river)
Near side (only stand on the entrance side of the property)
North ditch (Ditch crossing on the north side Brett shot a 140 class 2 seasons ago)
Salt lick (funnel next to a big dug up hole that must have been an old salt spot)
Eagles Nest
Easy Chair
the corner
Oak patch
down south
west pasture
New One
Nose bleed
Good stuff. All elk spots for me
Rock concert
Battlegrounds
Thouroughfare
Trespass canyon
Death valley
Intersection
Pasture
Etc. :)
Stand one
Stand two
Stand three
Stand four
The tractor seat
The spot by the field
That place Zane hunts
That corner off that road
Across the road from the corner
That spot we always hunt.
Up on the hill
Up in the saddle
The powerline
That ridge.
If you haven't picked it up yet, we ain't all to original when it comes to our spots on public and private land
I am not very creative with my names:
The First Triple (On L's farm)
The Second Triple (On L's farm)
The corner (On G's farm)
Lenny's Original Stand (On L's farm)
The Original Ladder Stand
The corner (On L's farm)
The original funnel (On L's farm)
The one Brent shot the Elk out of
The original funnel (On G's farm), which is my favorite over the past twenty years. It is sometimes called the double-triple, The one Hunter shot the Elk out of, or the over 50 stand.
pie pan stand.
we had a stand on our land and the guy next to us did't like the deer come to our land , so he put up pie pans all over the edge of his woods. the deer just come right to us. lol
The Hotel
Alfs apple tree
The Burnout
Birch Blind
The pines
The Foundation
Pines West
Maple Valley...and on and on. I name them all. Special places !!
Bear Stand
The Point
Hot Spot
Killer Road
The Rock
Tree Farm
Sheep Farm
mine:
Mossy bluff stand
Lucky dog stand
South creek stand
Chickory stand
Highway stand
Cedar stand
Barn stand
Pasture stand
Glory hole
Stone crossing stand
The Acorn Stand
The Clover Stand
Picnic Point Stand
and for the newbies:
The Elephant Stand (where you have about as much chance of killing a deer as an elephant).
Some I've hunted over the years:
Bus Stop - you could see school aged children getting on and off the bus
Low Hole - a low and wet bottom surrounded by a high horeshoe shaped ridge
Slam Dunk - guaranteed doe killin spot :banghead:
Hump back
Taj Mahal- a rather large tree house stand
Shirt Tail- missed quite a few deer from this stand for some reason :D
and the list goes on...
This list brings back lots of great memories!
"Grandma's Stand"
My favorite stand, named because it was literally "over the river and through the woods". Had to wear waders and wade across the Little Rice River, (a little unnerving the first few times in the dark) carrying your gear over your head. Stand taught me something though... deer float. ;)
Big blind, banana blind ( spike had really yellow antlers, heartbreak, useless, John's.
Ours are named:
The Mesquite Tree stand
The Bottom
The Pig Stand
The Astroblind
The Taj Majal
The Front Field
Bisch
Jacks Bump
Bloody Ridge
Meat market- always see deer there
Booger stand - A friend was scared off it by something.
East side
Fort Zachary
The Veranda- comfortable
Bubbas stand - I'm Bubba
Chicken foot
Two does down
Little Cambodia- Wasn't allowed access for a while, have it but didn't tell some hunting partners. They think I am sneaking in.
The line
Crows nest- really high
Here's a few of mine: Landmark, Joe Doe, Duck Wire, 2 Penny, Tuning Fork, Alamo, Plot's End, Indian Well, Black Hole, Pumpkin Patch, Last Resort, Kate's Gate, Fire Pole, Runway, Weeping Wood, Dream Catcher, Double Take, Honey Comb, Road Runner, 2 Skull, Lost Stand, No Scent, Sapsicle, etc. etc.