Okay, my honey hole it is then.

My stand is a loc on about 25 ft up into a hemlock tree. This stand overlooks the edge of a golden rod field littered with saplings. The tree is within a hedgerow that connects the main old hardwoods with a new sapling/small tree woodlot that is thicker than thick. I consider this area a bedding area. On the other side of the golden rod field is about 100 acres of corn, which I'm in the corner of, the edge about 25 yards from me. The deer travel the corn, into the golden rod and back and forth from woodlot to woodlot. It's a natural funnel and causes all deer that don't enter the corn to walk within 25 yards of my stand. If I didn't have rack standards, this tree is a gaurantee every year. Many times I don't even hunt the stand until the last week. The golden rod/sapling field also acts as a bedding area. Many times I'll have deer bedded within bow range of my stand and I sit and watch them chew their cudd. I narrowed down to this stand several years ago while watching the deer activity and travel patterns in this area. Few have shared the tree with me, but all who have said I found a mecca. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

<font color=blue>Good Luck and Good Shooting</font id=blue>

<font color=red>Rob</font id=red>


My other area is a oak hardwoods atop a mountain. We've narrowed down our stand placements to a oak flat that acts again, as a natural funnel/browse line. We catch the deer coming from adjacent land field crops to the dense areas of this particular wooded area. I along with my partner, brother and many friends have taken probably more than 20 some buck within a 100 yard diameter of one tree.

Edited by - Rob/PA Bowyer on 09/17/2002 21:50:15