Official 2025 Live from the stand

If it's going to happen, it's going to be in the last 10 minutes of daylight. Good Luck Ash!

 

Pheasants and turkeys sure are active this evening.


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Man, please careful with those straps. When they're left out all year they can rot and break with no warning. It's happened to my brother-in-law a couple of times and once he actually fell. Needless to say, he is very careless

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It happens, the stand belongs to the tree now.
Eventually, it’ll look like this.
I still hunt out of this one every year, killed a small truckload of deer out of it.
Best part is, when the straps rot away, it still ain’t budging.

 

You might be a redneck if you realize your no scent clothing detergent is gone and you used your no scent body wash in its place....

 

Been there done that with the green slime , even poured in a bottle of scent killer for good measure

 

My uncle's place had a couple stands like that, one was aluminum tubes, he would just net a few new seats every couple of years. The other was angle iron with a plywood seat, to get in it there was a 8' aluminum ladder bungee strapped to a horizontal limb, the stand was only about 10' off the ground. Both were solid as a rock.

 

Lone grunt in the willows. Maybe getting up out of his bed.


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24 hours from now I will be last minute scrambling just like every night before the 1st hunt.

 

Hang on type stands? Now that’s funny. This one is at least a ladder stand

 

Yeah, the aluminum one was chained to the tree originally, tree grew over everything, the angle iron one was lag bolted into the tree.

On the walk back to another stand there was a big oak with 2x4's still nailed into it as steps. Think I posted a picture of it in one of the LFTS threads a few years back. Amazing the sketchy chit old timers got away with

 

Had a heard of doe come in. Guessing 5 or 6. First small doe peels off to my right. The 2nd doe a nice makes me out. I already have my xbow on her but she’s only giving me frontal shot. I’ve never taken one of those we a bow or x bow. She spun and took off and took the group with here back about 70yds into the timber. With a few minutes left I packed up and left. Saw between 7 and 9 tonight.

 

You were kinda exposed and all

 

Ahhhhhh, that feeling you get when you open the battery compartment to your headlamp that you haven't used in 2 years and there's no corroded batteries in it

Batteries still tested good, but put some fresh in for good measure

 

Am I the only one or do others of you spray your dryer with cover scent hoping the scent from the previous clothing will not get on my hunting clothes, lol!

 

Every year, and already put a bottle down on the dryer tonight for tomorrow evenings wash.

Then straight out of dryer into unscented garbage bags with a few more sprays then mashed up to push the air out and tied tight

 

Sometimes you have to wonder about us whitetail hunters, lol.

 

Ok fellas, tomorrow lets turn up the heat on these bucks

 

Good stuff! Congrats!

 

Sounds like that tree is eating your stand.