Trees, Trees, and Trees

[Lakerat007]

I have such a tree. A giant oak that has stood the test of time. Tree sits right at the head of a natural funnel. Old nails from various periods of time are found in the tree, some kind of carving I can't make out is roughly 12' up its trunk. I like to imagine some Hunter from long ago leaving his mark while waiting patiently for game. One summer while raking the ground around its base I kicked up 2 bird point arrowheads. If only this mighty oak could talk the stories it could tell. On a cold crisp morning with a north wind there's no other place I would rather be. Come 2nd half of November I will try to remember to take a pic of this beauty.

[Ray Lyon]

The Tressel stand tree.  I don’t have an actual picture but I picture it in my mind.  I dare say it produced 20 whitetail deer at Shrewhaven camps over the years.  It was a lone pine tree at the end of an aspen grove pinch point. It overlooks the old railroad tressel spanning Armstrong Creek. 

[Terry Green]

This is great to hear about these trees.  I have a tree I call the phone pole..... I haven't been there in probably 15 years at least if not  Twenty.....

Have a chance to go back this year as the property has become available again....

I can't tell you how many deer I killed out of that tree.... But I can tell you I killed 3 deer in 13 minutes October 17th  1991. Two bucks and a doe. 7:00, 7:06, and 7:13.

I can't  wait to get back in that tree!

[reddogge]

On Aberdeen Proving Grounds which used to be farmland around WW1 time, in one area we hunted I killed a big buck off of two trees. One was an old pear tree and the other was a persimmon tree. My partner and I just called them "The pear tree" and the persimmon tree". The persimmon was so close to the main front that when they fired the tank guns, the tree you were in and the ground shook, and you could hear the sabots hitting trees going downrange. Very scary.

[degabe]

We had one when we were kids , it was a huge old that was hollow and big enough for my brother and I to sleep in, We even spent a few nights camped out in that old thing.

[pavan]

I had a whole bunch of names for one certain dead tree that got up and moved over about a foot and a half to stop my Deadhead on it way to a deer. 
This no lie, a month later, there was a hot day in November with lots of gnats and not a breathe of wind, I heard a crunchy sound somewhere close in front of me.  It got louder and then that dead tree crashed to the ground.  i walked over to inspect it and someone hung a brand new tree stand on the dead tree, complete with the instruction book still taped to the tree stand.

[MnFn]

I had one on the back fourty of my land.  It was a huge White Pine near the southwest corner of my property.  I used it as a landmark when I was in the creek bottom.  I had a ladder stand in it that got smashed when the wind snapped it off about ten feet up. I liked to just go back there and sit, watching and waiting. Never did shoot a deer out of it tho.

[John Krause]

This one come to mind...   🤣 Don’t ban me Terry!  😀