Well guys, I spent the weekend hoping for a buck to show up on my best food plot (picture below). I sat there with the Mustang in my hand looking at these same six does onFriday evening, and Saturday morning and evening, and had only one 4-pointer show up - not legal for our club. I need to take a doe, but don't want to do it on this plot because these gals are my "buck magnets" and I know there's an 8-pointer in the area. I just don't want to disturb the area unitil after the rut, which will start about mid-December.

So Sunday morning I sat on another stand with the intention of taking the first mature doe that showed up. You guessed it - nobody showed up.

EDIT: No, the picture wasn't taken from a helicoptor. I'm sitting in a 16' high stand that's on top of a 12' bluff next to the plot. Distance from the stand to that corn feeder is 121 yards.

That is quite a view. Sounds like a good plan, best wishes for the 8 pointer.
Chap

Take a rag ofr that nose bleed your going to get being upo that high!

With my luck I'd hit the feeder

Have you ever practiced from that elevated stand? It looks like you might have a steep enough angle that it could influence the POI from a rifle sighted in on a flat open range.. if you catch my drift.

You're right to be concerned about the steep angle Cayugad. I haven't shot targets out of that stand, but did manage to pop a bobcat from it a few years agowith my New Englander and a big old slow 410 grain Great Plains bullet. I aimed just a tadlow to compensate for the angle andthe shot was still a little higher than I expected, though that could have been shooter'serror. My 25-06 doesn't even notice the angle at that distance.

I just wondered because I hunted out of a climbing stand once on the side of a steep hill. I buck came down the bottom of the draw, and I aimed at his heart and spined him. When I saw that picture, thats the first thing that popped into my head.

I've always thought I ought to put targets out on that field at 100, 125 and 150 yards and shoot them with the Mustang, just never seem to get around to it. Might be a good project after the season ends Jan. 31st. Multiple loading in that little box stand is going to be a hassle though. That's probably why I haven't done it already.

great view, i could sit there all day and watch the day go by.

I do that quite often. I take alongathermos of coffee, a sandwich,a can or two of Coke,a gook book, and I'm a happy camper. That's why my wife says I'm totally nuts. Women don't seem to be able to go a whole day without talking to another human.