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charlie sherrill said:
Where's the corn pile?
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The deer have already eaten it. I will have to replenish it this afternoon. Baiting is now legal in the Southern Zone in Georgia. If you look closely, you will be able to just make out a speck of white that is a salt block in the first picture, just to the left of the shooting lane.

I realize that "real hunters" don't use bait. I don't consider myself a "real hunter" when it comes to deer. In fact, not one of every 200 hunters in the woods this morning are "real hunters." Real hunters don't sit in stands, not exclusively, anyway. I know half a dozen real hunters. My nephew is one. He gets down in the grass and belly-crawls to where the deer are bedded. He uses a grunt call, except he does it himself, without a call.

To most of us local landowners/farmers, deer are pests. Shooting them over bait is a humane way to dispose of some of the excess, and the meat is good. Georgia DNR maintains the herd at too high a level because that is where the money is. I believe the herd is maintained in GA at about a million deer. I believe any "hunter" should have to show proof he/she has killed a doe before he/she is eligible to kill a buck. Atlanta/Florida deer hunters have what I call a dove shoot mentality. They are not satisfied if they don't see a parade of deer. When we first had a season back in the 60s, a hunter was lucky to see five deer during the entire two week season. Now the "hunters" aren't satisfied unless they see five or six per day.

Sorry for the rant. Now I'm off to Tractor Supply to pickup ten 50 lb bags of corn.:D
 
Beautiful photos.I need to harvest some pines in my mixed oak pine woods,some probably well over 100 years old.The land has always been my "Disney World" since I was an infant and I have resisted cutting most of the trees all my life.I feel like I know each one and can associate it with a quail,turkey or deer I killed nearby.A large "bay" runs through a large wooded area and thick underbrush of gallberry and bay bushes are beneath the large trees and are difficult to control by fire.Perhaps some Arsenal will produce something such as your photos.I always enjoy your posts.
 
Very nice!!

My deer stand couldn't be more different. I'm dead on top a very high mountain, totally forested and steep with cliffs on one side. No photos, just have to use your imagination.
It's really neat to see others, thanks for the pic's.

DR
 
Here's the view from my tree stand.

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No corn pile, but the light green spot in the middle of the photo is a field of standing corn maybe 60 yards behind me.
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Nice photos of your spots guys. I hit salmon season hard and have picked some chanterelle mushrooms this fall but haven't deer hunted yet, though I have tags for bear, cougar, deer and elk. Deer is open until 31st in Western WA. I'm mainly looking forward to elk in early Nov. with the .338. I'll try to remember to post some pics from various stands. Clean Break
 
Nice deer hunting area. I also stand hunt. With 175 acres...we'd run the deer off if we went stumbling around the woods!

Here's a shot from one of our stands...we had just had terracing done.

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Here my daughter Dani has just shot her first deer....a nice fat doe.

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A couple shots of what the stands look like

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Bob
 
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Stands? I hunt on the ground and i use a bow. Would not consider sitting in a stand (with or without bait) hunting. More like waiting, not much challenge in that.
 
redlevel said:
The deer have already eaten it. I will have to replenish it this afternoon. Baiting is now legal in the Southern Zone in Georgia. If you look closely, you will be able to just make out a speck of white that is a salt block in the first picture, just to the left of the shooting lane.

I realize that "real hunters" don't use bait. I don't consider myself a "real hunter" when it comes to deer. In fact, not one of every 200 hunters in the woods this morning are "real hunters." Real hunters don't sit in stands, not exclusively, anyway. I know half a dozen real hunters. My nephew is one. He gets down in the grass and belly-crawls to where the deer are bedded. He uses a grunt call, except he does it himself, without a call.

To most of us local landowners/farmers, deer are pests. Shooting them over bait is a humane way to dispose of some of the excess, and the meat is good. Georgia DNR maintains the herd at too high a level because that is where the money is. I believe the herd is maintained in GA at about a million deer. I believe any "hunter" should have to show proof he/she has killed a doe before he/she is eligible to kill a buck. Atlanta/Florida deer hunters have what I call a dove shoot mentality. They are not satisfied if they don't see a parade of deer. When we first had a season back in the 60s, a hunter was lucky to see five deer during the entire two week season. Now the "hunters" aren't satisfied unless they see five or six per day.

Sorry for the rant. Now I'm off to Tractor Supply to pickup ten 50 lb bags of corn.:D
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If your area does not have "earn a buck" there is likely good reason for it. You claim deer are "pests" to local land owner and farmers yes? Do you not think getting rid of bucks will help slow the population growth of these "pests". Takes a buck to impregnate the doe.
 
cbr600f3 said:
If your area does not have "earn a buck" there is likely good reason for it. You claim deer are "pests" to local land owner and farmers yes? Do you not think getting rid of bucks will help slow the population growth of these "pests". Takes a buck to impregnate the doe.
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The reason Georgia doesn't have "earn a buck" is stated in my earlier post. Deer hunting is the money engine that drives DNR in Georgia. The out of state and Atlanta hunters want to see that parade every morning.

You are joking about shooting bucks for population control, aren't you? If a particular tract has 200 does and 50 bucks, half the bucks could be killed without any effect on the next year's crop. The remainder of the bucks would take up the slack, so to speak. For every doe killed, however, that is probably about an immediate 1.5 deer reduction in the next years crop. Many of the does have twins.

Yes, I call them pests. They are rats with antlers. They cause millions of dollars per year in traffic damage, and millions of dollars per year in agricultural damage. I have seen deer destroy $10,000 worth of peach tree seedlings in a couple of weeks. It is impossible for me to have my little one acre garden without a fence that the original cost approached $1000. Many areas of Georgia can't grow watermelons or soybeans because of deer depredation. I believe there should be a $50 surcharge added to all Georgia big game licenses to go into a fund to relieve farmers of some of the burden. Insurance companies can cover their losses by increasing costs of premiums. Farmers and other landowners can't do that. It isn't unusual for deer to destroy thousands of dollars of landscaping plants in a few nights.

You have inspired me, cbr600f3! Next summer I am going to apply for a depredation permit! I bet I can get a permit to shoot 30 or 40 of the vermin.:D
 
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cbr600f3 said:
Stands? I hunt on the ground and i use a bow. Would not consider sitting in a stand (with or without bait) hunting. More like waiting, not much challenge in that.
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I'm real proud of you being an archer and all. I killed an elk with a stick and string once. Perhaps you'd be better off on an archery website/forum instead of on a Smith and Wesson Forum since, you know, Smith and Wesson doesn't make bows and arrows and this thread really is about stands, stand hunting and what the view looks like from there.

It certainly isn't a method for those with atrophied attention spans.

Nah, there's no challenge at all remaining still for hours on end, despite the weather, looking at the same view, waiting for something to happen and having the sensitivity to determine when it does and what caused it. There's no skill at all in stand placement. There's no stamina required to effectively hunt from a stand day after day nor are there any shooting skills really involved when shooting a gun over a variety of distances...

No one is asking you to sit in a stand. Go bow hunt. Go to a bowhunting website. Just go. Do your thing. But you don't need to piss all over those of us that occasionally do with hunt from a stand, as humans have for thousands of years, with your elitist attitude. CB
 
cbr600f3 said:
Stands? I hunt on the ground and i use a bow. Would not consider sitting in a stand (with or without bait) hunting. More like waiting, not much challenge in that.
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Clean Break said:
I'm real proud of you being an archer and all. I killed an elk with a stick and string once. Perhaps you'd be better off on an archery website/forum instead of on a Smith and Wesson Forum since, you know, Smith and Wesson doesn't make bows and arrows and this thread really is about stands, stand hunting and what the view looks like from there.

It certainly isn't a method for those with atrophied attention spans.

Nah, there's no challenge at all remaining still for hours on end, despite the weather, looking at the same view, waiting for something to happen and having the sensitivity to determine when it does and what caused it. There's no skill at all in stand placement. There's no stamina required to effectively hunt from a stand day after day nor are there any shooting skills really involved when shooting a gun over a variety of distances...

No one is asking you to sit in a stand. Go bow hunt. Go to a bowhunting website. Just go. Do your thing. But you don't need to piss all over those of us that occasionally do with hunt from a stand, as humans have for thousands of years, with your elitist attitude. CB
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I do it all.

Archery, muzzleloading, rifle.

I treestand hunt.
I still hunt.
I sit on the ground.
I participate on drives.
On drives I have both killed deer and driven deer to other shooters for them to kill.
Some of our drives are nearly a mile long, some are a few hundred feet.
One of my stands (the one pictured above) is over 3/4 mile walk from the road.
One of my stands (my most productive archery stand) is barely over 200 yards from my front door.

I have literally stepped out of my truck and killed deer, I have killed deer deep in the woods.
I killed deer on the edge of fields, etc.

Etc.
Etc.
Safe to say, I do it all.

I don't judge other people's methods of fair chase, and I ask the same in return.
You want to only bowhunt on the ground, more power to you. To each his own. I wish you success.
Just don't knock me and tell me there's no skill involved in what I do.



And CB, if Smith & Wesson ever does start making bows, I'll be one of the first in line to buy one! ;) :D
 
Everyone has his own favorite place and way to hunt. Me, I'll sit out by the pond and wait for deer to wander out the woods. Sometimes, while I'm waiting, I'll bait a hook and put the rod in a holder on the pier. If I don't get a deer I just might get a catfish. If things go right, I'll get both. :D

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So Mr. cbr600f3, just where did you "learn about deer population control". You know nothing. You proved that when you offered your "wisdom" about killing bucks to control herd numbers. Every DNR in every state would confirm the idiocy of your comments on herd control.

You were also offensive to the OP and others who had chimed in on the OPs thread. You purposely called into question the hunting morals of anyone who hunts in a stand. This thread is about hunting deer from a stand so it is obvious that being obnoxious was your intent.
After reviewing your thread history here on the Forum, it's clear to me you are either a troll or someone who looks for threads you can dump on. Sad but true.

Have a nice day.

Bob
 
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I guess I'm one of those "Atlanta/Florida" hunters since I don't own the land I hunt altohugh I did spend a lot of my childhood on that land. However, I don't expect a parade of deer walking in front of me and last year the only ones I saw while hunting were at about 700 yards and opening. I'll try to get a pic soon of my hunting area.

As far as deer being pests, they are! A guy living near my cousin lost his shirt because he put a lot of money into establishing an apple orchard. You wouldn't believe what a herd of deer can do to an apple orchard in a short period of time. I actually saw a deer a few months ago, hit by a car and dead on the side on Moreland Avenue inside the I-285 perimeter. We aren't talking out in country here, we're talking about an area with trucking companies, body shops, service stations, bars, etc and deer wandering around where the speed limit is 45 and everybody does 60.

If anybody has been watching The Walking Dead, they planted that garden about six weeks before shooting started but apparently the didn't keep the gates closed. A herd of deer got in and almost destroyed their garden. Since I only live 20-25 miles north of them, I would have been glad to bring my Remington 700 and "watch over" their garden for them. :D

CW
 
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