Stand names

[S. Brant Osborn]

Meat market

2 does down

Cambodia

chicken foot

[GingivitisKahn]

Ours are kind of tame apparently...

Secondary hunting location:
* Dylan's hollow
* The beach
* Northern point
* The flats
* Eastern trail
* Oak knoll

Our primary hunting location has these (and others):
* The corner
* The big oak
* The middle ridge
* The blowdown

But my favorite is

* The dirty branch - my son had done some pruning on a huge blown down oak so that he could nestle back in there and ambush a couple of trails.  After sawing through one biggish branch, he sprinkled a pinch of dry dirt on it - to camouflage it.  Not sure why, but that just tickled me.

[pitbull]

The Go To
Draw's End
Impossible Bottom
Last Minute
Crisscross
Beech Thicket
Have about 20 - 30 sites but these are the only with names.

[mscampbell75]

I love the thread.

Corner stand
Middle stand
The point
Swamp Stand
lilltle corn feild
the Double
The leaning stand
Loading deck
Jack's Stand (even though he doesnt hunt with us anymore)
Power line
Oak Grove
Saw Dust Pile

[Bob B.]

Satan's Draw

The Cooler

Doug's Stand

Sit the point

Pine stand

The Rock

Brother Bruce's Draw

Behind the Cabin

[Hattrick]

double rub
double bucket
swamp
beaver tree
monument
way the f%&$
The Ditch
holy grove
honey hole

Thats just few

[spike buck]

My favorite stand name in my woods is the Opossum Stand. It's a ladder stand and my buddy was hanging it. He finished setting it against the tree and climbed up to set the straps. Just when he got eye level with the platform a huge opossum had his teeth out and was hissing something awful from inside a hole in the tree that was unnoticed until then. He screamed like a litle girl and just about fell out of the stand. I fell over laughing!!

[Crash]

Dang, I don't name my bows and don't name my stands, am I still Traditional?  I move stands around so much, never thought to name them, and I usually hunt alone so don't really converse with anyone about them.

[J. Holden]

I only have one.  So, it's name is "my syand".

-Jeremy

[Mike Gerardi]

Hunting with Molson sounds sumthin  like this, My stand, The spot I told you about, The spot Im gonna hunt, The area near where I told you about. The tree I found for ya

[Pat B]

Mr Miller's stand, long story
Miller light, near Mr Miller's
Mike's stand, self explanatory
Rattlesnake ridge, self explanatory
Coyote hollow, one member got trapped there one   evening by a pack of yelling coyotes
hole in the fence, guess
the hook, at a hook in the road
the home site, at the old home site
the Indian princess' stand, another long story
the Teepee, near Princess' stand
Knott's landing, Where Mr Knott hit the ground!
the triangle, in the triangular plot of land
the back gate,not far from coyote hollow
the main gate, at the entrance
Coor's Ave, originally marked with a coors       can on a stick
Coor's food plot. at the end of Coor's Ave
.....all on 250acs.

[Talondale]

Poop Stand
The Condo
Staging Area
Lucky Stand
Its a Buck!
Angel Tree

[John Krause]

Another thing we do is name logging roads and main trails.  This also stops alot of confusion about where something happened. Where did you see that buck? He was on Dip road, halfway up the hill towards West Main.

We started doing this #1 it's fun for us. #2 there was a guy that hunted with us for a while that when you would ask him where he hunted or where he saw something he would go on for 5 min trying to describe the place where he was and then you still weren't sure of where he was talking about. Know anybody like that?  

So we have:

Mossy Knoll Rd
West Main
Dip Rd
Rutt Road
East Main
Shed Alley
 
We have a couple more trails we need to name.

[Barry Wensel]

I picked a tree out for Biggie Hoffman one year back in the late '90s that he killed his biggest buck ever from. We actually had two stands in that bowl we called "Biggies Upper Lip" and "Biggies Lower Lip". A big tree fell naturally this spring (Biggie had nothing to do with it) that changes the movement patterns, so we pulled the original stands and placed a killer stand half way between the upper and lower lips. We've renamed the new stand "Biggies Dentures". bw

[Barry Wensel]

p.s. I don't know how to post pics but if someone wants me to forward pics I'll forward what the trail cameras showed last week. bw

[Barry Wensel]

Never mind. Maybe I better not post photos until after the season. Sorry. bw

[longbowben]

Thats not fair  

[Killdeer]

[email protected]

I could teach even you to post pics.
You could teach me how to read deer woods.

I have been hunting the same place since 1986. Most of my stand sites are named for deer that I have killed there. Alphonse Pass,

Clyde's Point,
 

PeeWee Stand,

 

Yorick's Gulch. Then there is The Pawn Shop, a blowdown of three cherry trees with a pit at the base of the upflung roots.

There is the Shelter Ridge, behind the chestnut Adirondack, First and Second Horn of the Shelter Ridge, and The Bowl. The Stadium. Spaghetti Junction (tangled trails in a major junction of creeks and ridges). Heart Attack, Mac's Ridge, Turkey Ridge, The Finger, Plane Wreck, The Puffball Tree. The Bears' Poo Hall. The Beaver Ponds are now a meadow, but the name remains.  

 

Sweet, sweet to think on these names and feel the places they represent.

Killdeer

[bear1336]

bear trail
river watch
pine valley
camp trail

[waknstak IL]

the meat corner ---       see lots of small deer
the horshoe  ---         trail bends there
the wedge
the refrigerator ----      old refrigerator there
the gas can--      because of an old gas can there
doe hollow      
the way in the back ditch
the beaver dam
the blowdown