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Offline charles p

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Re: Thinking deer stand..
« Reply #30 on: May 23, 2013, 09:08:58 AM »
Remember your waspe spray in early season.  I go to ours in June and spray all the vines growning on my stand and ladder with Roundup.  I hate poison ivy.

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Re: Thinking deer stand..
« Reply #31 on: May 23, 2013, 05:08:18 PM »
Remember your waspe spray in early season.  I go to ours in June and spray all the vines growning on my stand and ladder with Roundup.  I hate poison ivy.

Wasps were the main reason I put the hinged windows in mine. A few years ago in the dark on a cold morning I climbed up in my stand and closed the hatch. Was sitting in my chair and snoozing till light. When I could see I looked up and above my head was a softball sized red wasp nest with some cold and slow moving inhabitants inches from my face. I left it to them and returned with a bug bomb and threw it in and slambed the door shut. When you get in a stand with red wasps and dont see em until it is too late, it gets ugly fast.  Dont get me started on poison Ivy!  :-\ 
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Re: Thinking deer stand..
« Reply #32 on: May 28, 2013, 10:22:42 AM »
you have not lived until you climb into a stand to find yourself face to face with a copperhead.
If ya can see it ya can hit it !

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Re: Thinking deer stand..
« Reply #33 on: May 30, 2013, 10:19:29 AM »
you have not lived until you climb into a stand to find yourself face to face with a copperhead.
I dunno, a bear in bear country, a lion in lion country, my Ex-

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Re: Thinking deer stand..
« Reply #34 on: May 30, 2013, 11:17:28 AM »
 ;D   What I needed today a lift of my spirits!  ;)
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Re: Thinking deer stand..
« Reply #35 on: February 09, 2014, 11:39:14 AM »
Ironglow,


   I've built and hunted off tree stands for whitetails my entire life.  Here is what I've found.


   Ten feet high for your platform is a good height.   If you get up that high, then your scent will be carried off high in the wind.  You will actually have deer walk around and browse under your stand, totally oblivious to you.


   Higher than ten feet is scary, particularly for older folks.  It is a long climb up, and if you go much higher than that, then death or paralysis is a likely end to any fall.


   I don't build stands so that I can "see father."  Heck, I can stand on a log at an edge of a field and see 200 yards.   I use stands so that that the deer can't see or smell me.   


   I also go put a semi-circle of attraction scent down on the ground, 50 yards out from my stand, in the most open shooting area.  At the midpoint around that semi-circle, I put a little stick in the ground, about one foot tall, and tie a little green rag around it, soaked in the attractive lure.     When deer wind the scent, they come in, land in the semicircle somewhere, put their nose to the ground and follow the scent to its strongest point, being that soaked rag.   


   I can't tell you how many deer I've killed, while they are just standing there with their nose right on that rag.


    Best of all, when they are working that scent, they are absolutely not looking for you.


Hope this helps.


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Re: Thinking deer stand..
« Reply #36 on: February 10, 2014, 01:17:59 PM »
Thanks Manny;

  I'll have to try that next season.  This past season, I passed up a couple does, expecting a buck would be tagging along behind..but none was.
  I'm looking to change my blind to a better location, going uphill for a hundred yards or so.
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