Old Treestands

[freedomrules3]

We've all seen them , old treestands that are falling down from years gone by. i seem to ussually take a good long look around when i see one. i think there has to have been a reason why they were here. ussually there is. i have found some pretty good spots right around some of the old stands i have researched the area around. here is one i found the other day.



and here is what i found when i took a look around





coincidence ?? i seem to think not myself, there was and is ussually a reason why they were hung therer in the first place, some things never change. what do you see when you find an old stand ?

[Buckfever]

I've taken 3 deer and had 8 additional deer come through including a 10 pointer, in the last year and a half on setups based at least partly on the presence of old falling apart treestands. When someone goes to the trouble of building an extensive wooden structure 25-30 feet up on a monster oak, yeah I figure there was some reason for it. 9/10 it's a funnel off a bedding area. Definitely something to look for and consider when scouting.

[hatracked]

People 25 years ago hunted for meat. Old deer stands are like the most convienient grocery store in the woods. Your absolutely right, very few folks 25 years ago would put the effort into building a permanent stand unless the area had very regular deer travel. Keep in mind most folks used to hunt from the ground. It was a big deal to build a treestand. I always pay em close attention.

One thing that is really cool to see is after timbering and regrowth you will find that even with this massive landscape change, ther deer use the same routes. Kinda tells ya alot of about deer behaivor.

[freedomrules3]

I did a little more nosing around this area before setting up my climber. saw a nice 8 pointer and a forky chasing tonite. i also found these, probably made by the 8. i think i'll set up camp here a few days .



same rub different view,

another one right next to the one above

[Buckfever]

Yeah that's defintely a hot spot you've located there. I'd live there.

[Buckfever]

"One thing that is really cool to see is after timbering and regrowth you will find that even with this massive landscape change, ther deer use the same routes."

Isn't that the truth? It is an amazing thing how they will use the topography and unless there is some major structural change, like half the timber taken out for the development of a subdivision, the patterns remain the same. It is also amazing to me that as you study these things and relate them back to aerial photos, you start to see things, in terms of how they relate to the seams in the cover, edges, funnels, seams in the cover inter relating one piece to another. You start thinking like a deer, but then assign a randomness to it.