Hanging Stands '13

I took off to Tifton this past weekend to work at the farm and hang some stands and look at the work that Dad had done as I had been doing some work at the house as well putting together some stands for some of the bigger more consistent stands on the front side. 

We got an early start though it was already getting warm by 9:00 and after hooking up the stands to the 4-wheelers we headed across the farm to the line to hang a stand on one of our older rye grass strip.  We needed the looping shears to make sure we could get the stand up in the tree so we ran back to the cabin and grabbed those and set up the other on another hill on the way through.  Dad had done some work around that lone oak tree stand and had cut some shooting lanes and it looks really nice from the stand.

Shooting lane underneath Lone Oak Stand.

Someone will get to see at least some deer off that stand.  Hopefully, he will stick around long enough to get a crack at him.  If he comes across on a doe it might be tough but there is another shooting lane to the left of the stand and sometimes those deer hook down the creek so there could be another shot if you got lucky.  

We got the other stand up in the creek looking up the rye strip as well.

 

Younger buck from the Rye Strip Stand last year.

From there we checked one of my favorite creek stands and Dad had cleared that area out nice for a shooting lane which had gotten tighter over the past few years.  It was hard to get a quick shot in there any more so opening it back up won't impact the deer movement as they come across that area as a natural funnel between the hill and creek. 

Buck I took 2 seasons ago in that bottom.  One of the deer I saw last year would have been bigger but fortunately on that morning he got to walk since he was missing a his right antler. 

We also road the fence line that had some nice mast on last year where I got the picture of this buck... Maybe he's grown up a little.  I think everyone that sat on that stand saw him at least once and we all passed and looking at him through the pictures I think that was a good choice. 

 

By that time it was getting warm and later in the morning almost around noon so we put up one of Dad's older stand on a tree close to the cabin in an area that never gets hunted.  It looks like it's to close to the cabin but I've put Nate there before and he's seen deer as they cross that little strip of woods right there on the way around the creek to their bedding areas.  

We also pulled out the rifles to check our scopes and after a couple quick shots we were loading up and heading back to town.  

 

After a quick lunch at Dairy Queen in Sylvester we headed back to the house to get cleaned up and watch the mess was that the UGA vs Tenn game.  Luckily, we got the win but lost some key players.  Hopefully we will get a couple wins over the next weeks and get into Florida with one loss and give our younger guys a chance to get ready to play.