Anyone else name their stands?feel sorry for me
 

The reason for this thread is in the past month we lost our most productive spot. A little 7 acre bedding area. A perfect rectangle bout 180 yards by 350 yards. We called it "THE MEAT RUN". And the stand was called "THE BATTERS BOX". Here is how we hunted it, from the property edge 2 guys go walk in to the stand and simple 2x6 gamed in a fork about 14' up. 1 guy goes up the other walks to the far edge, down the far edge looped the bottom at a slow pace. The deer always came up the opposite edge for a perfect 30 yard shot, a little MAAAAAAA stopem and thwack! 9 time out of 10 the fell in my BACK YARD!!! Over the past 10 years we took 20 plus deer out of this simple stand. Buck's and doe alike. This year there was 4 taken including a 120" 10 point in a bachalor group of 6 bucks, yes 6 bucks. It was the first buck for a lucky junior hunter. We always spread the wealth. If someone didn't have a deer late in the season that is who was in the stand. You could kill 1 deer today out of 4 today and tomorrow there could be 6 in there. They just felt safe in there along a buisy road. When it realy wasn't really safe at all.;) Anyhow the land clearing is going ahead as planed and "THE BATTERS BOX" was cut down today. I'll miss that productive simple stand, it has produced alot of meat for seveeral families!
A little long but I don't post often!

RE: Anyone else name their stands?
 

We don't have any with real elaborate or creativenames, most just relate to their location on the property.

For instance here are several of them;

The knoll stand.
The top fence stand.
The south field stand.
The powerline stand.

RE: Anyone else name their stands?
 

Well you get my drift when I say "THE BATTERS BOX".:) O, I should say it was an archery only stand for the safety zone around my 4 acres.

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At are camp they are named after the guys who first built them.

Doc's blind
Pete's blind and so on

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We always name ours. Easier to identify which ones which. We'd always lie to each other and tell the others we shot a deer out of a different stand than the one we actually did.:D

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The honey hole, 50 cent stand. Always a spike from it which we call half a buck hence 50 cent stand.

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You have to name them when you have a lot of them.The log slide,the pony field,red bank,old man,narly,bruar batch,twin springs,I could go on and on.


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i call my one spot the promise land because im garented a deer.

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I call mine Summits and Gorilla (j/k:)). I honestly don't hunt the same tree more than once or twice.

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We have a tree named "old faithful" Its a lone tree out in the middle ofa section doesn't get hunted much but seems like whoever hunts it first usually fills a tag.

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Heres some I can think of from our farm. We keep them mapped out as well. I won't even list the names of the ones from my club.

The rebar stand
Back Field Stand
Windbreak Stand
Finger field Lookout
Big Oak Stand
2 Man ladder
Smokehouse Stand
Lightline Stand
Intersection Stand
New Powerline Lounger
BackridgeStands(3)
Acorn Stand
Old Powerline Ladder
Back Field Cut Through

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we've got names for all ours... the only problem is everyone seems to call them something slightly different... so its not much help, it still takes us 5 min to figure out what the other guy is talking bout...

My personal favorite is the "Widow Maker" stand... its in an absolute awesome spot, but its in a hollowed out tree and requires the hunter to be a gymnist to get it... haha the first step is 6 ft off the ground.. then it gets worse...

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I have a pond on our farm that we call "The Honey Hole", it the spring and summer it's a great bass pond, and in the winter it's an AWESOME duck hunting pond. It's also pretty well hidden so you have to know it's there to find it!

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"Opening day stand"= where my dad took his 167"
"The finger"
"1st draw"
2nd draw"
"Lady lover"=almost a given that your going to get a doe
"Field Stand"
"The honeycomb"=smack dab in the middle of a huge patch of honeysuckle

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Well thanks for the sympahy cards guys, after loosing my best stand!:eek:

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some of our names included:

- Spine Tree
- Nosebleed
- Dizzy
- Deadwood
- Spike Stand
- Bottle Neck
- Camera Stand

RE: Anyone else name their stands?
 

I suppose the title of the thread should have been "Do any of you feel sorry for me?" rather than "Anyone else name their stands?" :eek:



;)

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I just name mine by the locations such as

-The Clear Cut
-The Oaks
-The Riverside

but my dad has one tree he hunts out of and he calls it the pressbox becuase its a huge platform made out of 2X4's about 35 feet up in a huge oaktree...its awesome

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I am very fortunate to have permission to some very good woods and land, and I have a great hunting buddy that we are the only 2 with permission to these places. We have names for all of the stands. Some are names that describe the area, some include the landowners names, and some are from different experiences in those stands. But they all have names. Here are some of them:

Monster stand
Big boy stand
Loyds south stand
Loyd's North stand
The "L"
The inside "L"
The Point
Creek stand
Silo stand
Inside south stand
Don's Inside
The Edge
Roby Stand
Merkles South Point
Merkle's Back corner
Harold's
State Line stand
Creek ground Blind
Buck Roar stand ( that is a new name from this season)
Marlin's South
Marlin's Corner

I know that I have forgot some, but that is some.

RE: Anyone else name their stands?
 

Here's a few of ours

The killing field
The funnel
The gate
Leroy's tree
The fire trail
The pines