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09-18-2006 | 11:53 PM

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MountainHunter

Typical Buck

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From: Virginia

RE: Your stand tree.

I have four stand spots on two properties. The place I plan to hunt opening day (Oct. 7) morning is amongst some white oaks, just above some thick cover with several trails the deer use to come up from the CRP fields below in the morning to go back to their bedding areas further up the mountain in the National Forest. The wind almost always flows uphill in the morning and downhill in the evening. I walk in from a small logging road that curves around and runs along the ridge about 35 yards above my stand, so I have the wind in my favor. There’s another ridge behind that one, so I shouldn’t be outlined too badly as I walk along the ridge.

There are a lot of white oaks around me, although my actual stand tree is a tall straight hickory with some nice cover trees around it so the deer can’t see me too well.

These cover trees include several pine, for later in the season, after the leaves have dropped. I have cut out several shooting lanes around me that point at the most heavily travels deer trails within bowshot. There are tons of deer sign all around the tree. Last year I hunted from that tree 7 or 8 times in the morning and saw several deer almost every time. I even got one of them!

I may hunt opening evening in a different spot about 250 yards from this one, but this post is already too long to talk about that![8D]

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