your favorite hunting spot---picture post
 

I do not have nearly as nice of a place to hunt as you guys do. And I will openly admit that my most favorite spot in the world is a high mountain slide and open park in Paonia, CO. But I can't post from a snap shot photo. However I also do have my favorite spot here in WV.

I saw Semi's thread, so instead of piggy backing on his thread I thought I might share my favorite spot here in WV with you guys.

So please add in a photo of your favorite spot. And we should have a really nice thread of where everyone hunts. And hopefully in different parts of the country(or world). Tom.

Panning from right to left. Tom.

About 1/2 way to the left. Tom.

My favorite spot the past few years is in the field in front of my house and the woods to the side of the field. I live in a small subdivision (14 lots) and I am the only house in the place. I bought as the building boom died and I have about 40 acres of field and woods to hunt. :) I have a blind in the field and a stand in the woods. Deer don't live here, they kind of pass through but they pass through often enough to get a deer or two a year.

Excuse the bike, I will have to get a better photo online. This is pointing up from my house to the main road.


Head0001 - Great looking spot you have there.

Here's a screen capture from Google Earth of one of my three food plots. The plot itself is about 1/3 acre that I plant every year with wheat, oats & clover.



Here's the view of the plot from the box stand. That tree line at the rear of the plot is 175 yards out.



This picture was taken from about the middle of the plot, looking toward the box stand.



And a close-up of the box.



On a good day, I can sit back and watch the gals feed, hoping a horny buck will pay them a visit.

My hunting spot one of these years once i get something in the ground that will grow.

This is behind the thinned out tree area that you see in the first picture.


The long cut out area is my shooting range but will have Crimson clover planted next spring.


On small section right now that i have set up with a water tank and now a small pond.

Lord help me to keep my mouth shut.

I wish I hadn't seen this. :eek:

One of My Favorite Stands over looking a 100 Acre Corn Field boardering a Hardwoods and Bedding Area. I call it the (Corner Stand)
Now if this Picture works Im kinda Bummed as for all this time being a Member on this Forum everyone said I needed to go to Photo Bucket and do a bunch of stuff to download Pics to this site. Even worse I used to send My Pics to Sabotloader and have Him put them on for me.
I just went to the bottom of the page and hit (Go Advanced) then clicked on (Manage Attachments) then I went to My Pictures, selected one and uploaded it and Walah! Just like the other Forums Im on....

LOL Shaddup muley, that was from this summer when i first laid down grass seed and hay. The feeder i use for hanging scent clothes from. Actually i need to put my drip bag out there.

OK It Worked.....I guess from now On OL Breechplug will be adding More Photos on His Own;)

:s2::s2: I know Muley. Now you're going to have nightmares for the next week and wake up constipated every morning. :biggrin:

I'll be thinking of your torment next weekend while I'm sitting on a comfortable chair in one of my boxes, sipping coffee, reading a good book, and looking up every now and then to see if any deer have entered the plot.

Try to get THAT image out of your head old timer. ;)

Never saw your post before I made mine. I type like I hunt. Slow.

Maybe you can someone else to take the shot for you? :p

Now I know you're secretly wishing I would offer you that chance. But the only guest we allow are youngsters. And you ain't no youngster.

I'll agree with that.

I think I lost my teeth...................you seen them?

My No1 and No2 Favorite Stands.....the first one is on our piece of Property that has the Tennessee Gas Pipeline runs through it. The Tennessee Gas Pipe Line starts in NY and goes all the way to Tennessee, the Property is 263 Acres with a Swamp in the Middle of it surrounded by Hardwoods, Pines and a-lot of Real Thick Stuff.
The fist Pic is My No 2 Stand that is located along the edge of the Swamp, the Deer Cross there and run the edge of the Swamp. The next Pic is My No1 Stand, it's a Natural Funnel as the Deer have to go by My Stand to get by the Swamp.

Our muzzleloading season comes the end of November and early December. So normally this is a snowy time of the year.



this is normally what the trails through my woods look like. I kind of like it. Me and Semisane could sit out there in the sun and enjoy the weather..



right around that curve is a tree stand that over looks the marsh. But this year I am going to be hunting out of a ground blind.

Cayugad that looks like a winter wonderland. I can feel the snow falling down the back of my neck as I type this response!!

How much snow do you guys get in a year??

When I could walk I really enjoyed hunting in the snow. Good luck to you in your new stand. Tom.

Um Jon, i think you need to pull that feeder lol. i lived in Colorado and they frown on those things, even if your just hanging clothes off it or a drip bag:action-smiley-099:

Well Cayugad, I guess we could sit out there together. But I'm not sure both of us would be enjoying the weather.

I like ground blinds also and have a couple scattered around the lease. My hunting buddies laugh at them and call them my "Redneck Blinds".

I make them with the boards of old torn down fences that someone has put out as trash. This one is right off the edge of that plot pictured earlier. It's the one I killed a nice little 8 pt. buck from with my .54 Great Plains flinter.

You might like a rocking chair better. :p

LOL oh i know. I took it down once the bear ripped the motor off :s7:

I was thinking more like a Lay-z boy with built in cup holder and me sitting it it, reclining back with my warm fuzzy electric socks.

Maybe your snoring will call in the deer?

That is a great ground blind. At first I thought it was an outhouse.

Head ... we have had very mild winters since around 1995. We only got around 100 inches of snow last year. The winter of 95, the snow was so deep that if you went off any trails, you had to be on snow shoes or you'd never make it. The path to my wood shop .. the snow was over my head.

That's some good snow.

Cayugad, I don't know how you can possibly have typed that with a straight face. :rolleyes: You Northerners are truely nuts.

Semi sometimes the 4 seasons can be a little difficult. And alot of snow can be a bit of a problem. However I lived in Bowling Green, KY for several years. And the summers in southern KY were unbearable to me. I can not even imagine putting up with the summer heat you guys have down there. I would much rather deal with the cold than that hot weather.

I remember one time I was in Phoenix, AZ. The fellow said it was not bad because it was dry heat!! I thought the guy was nuts. You could fry an egg on the hood of the car. Dry heat?? My foot!!

But I do like the fact that you can fish year round in short sleeved shirts!! Tom.

Not always. It snowed in Phoenix last year.

I know this, because a guy was whining about it on another forum. I told him it's about time he got some good weather. He didn't seem amused.

I prefer hunting more in the open areas on our land if possible. This is one of my favorite spots- I usually just sit at the base of a tree at the top of this hill:



Of course, by the time hunting season rolls around it is not this nice out....

I wish I could say I had a favorite spot. But I don't. I have spots that I have shot game from. Either buck or bear. But my "favorite spot" changes every year depending on game movement/sightings/trail cam pic, etc.
Now I do have spots where I can see a long way. But I consider them more of 'relaxation' spots. Just sit back and have a nice field lunch and admire nature at its best - no traffic, cell phones. Just birds singing, squirrels bouncing thru the leaves, a redtail hawk screaming as he circles overhead and other critters roaming about.
And talk about snow. My neighbor's brother lives in Rome, NY and gets the lake effect snow (off the great lakes for you southerners). He regularly has to take his snowblower up on the roof the get the snow off so the roof doesn't cave in from all the weight.

We have a lion problem. Because there are so many, we also have a deer problem; not so many. This year i am hunting where i never hunted before.

Here is where i hunted the first part of October.











Here is where i hunted near the end of October












Since the beginning of November, i have been hunting the Northern Black Hills. Came oh so close to having a shot this morning

This has become a favorite spot of mine in the last couple years. I call it the "log blind" for obvious reasons. Not your idea of a perfect landscape, but deer travel through that area many times a day. I've seen them every hour from before legal shooting light to after legal shooting light.

Ron, during my hunt in new mexico in September we noticed the deer herds were down big time. My brother in law last friday went coyote calling in the snow, found 4 different sets of mountain lion prints. That could very well be what the issue was down there. Its amazing how those lions take down deer.

Ok, I finally have an updated picture of my hunting location. The red lines are the property boundaries of my neighborhood (I am the only house in it). The woods are about 25 acres and the field is about 15 acres. The yellow lines are the main deer travel routes. The red circle in the field is my blind and the red circle/x-mark in the woods is my treestand.

Dear Tom,

It is not easy to find a 30” barrel with 3” magnum and the magazine/receiver will not cycle the shells semi-automatically, if change the barrel, then it is better to change the magazine/receiver as well. Taking the shot gun to the Gunsmith will not help.

I have the exact Remington 1100, it is 5 shotgun automatic, 3” Magnum, 30” full choke barrel and it shoots 3” shells. The shotgun has fantastic stock and is in excellent shape. You can shoot 2-3/4” one a time, you put the shell in chamber and it will shoot and eject without any difficulty.

If you want to change your shotgun with mine, please let me know? How much difference would like to pay for the change, because mine is has 3” magnum which shoots 3” shells more powerful and goes a long way.

I assume that your living in West VA and I live in North VA, if you are coming to Northern VA, we can show the shotguns to each other, if we agree, we can have transferred to each other through an FF dealer.

Best regards,

Abdul
Email: [email protected]

The yellow and blue dots were put there because I was telling a sad story. Best buck we saw this season appeared at both those locations. He also left both intact. I've had this view the last several years.

My young grandson has been my hunting companion for the last few years. He'll soon turn 13 and may soon abandon his old hunting partner. I hope not.

View from the hilltop on the same place. Took pic out of the pickup's driver side window as I was leaving one day.