Honey hole names

[twitchstick]

It seems that we all have names for are favorite haunts. Now most of the names develope over time with hunting partners. Some get names for geogrphic reasons some from animals we seen or ect.. Now if I tell my wife I'm going to the elk spot she know excatly were I am. I have killed 3 elk there and help 2 others. Now in elk camp among friends we will know where "Wally's world" is or "Island in the sky" is after years of hunting together. Another friend I tell him lets go to the "6x9 funnel" he know's were and my favorite "The meet up spot". Let's here some of your names and maybe the story.

[Nate N]

i'll start.  Mine is called the Rock Fort.  It is a patch of ground on my dad's farm that i have taken quite a few deer from.  it is also known as Nate's spot.  It is a ladder stand on top of a 20 foot tall rock.  You can see a long way from that tree.  We also have a stand called the killin stand.  I bet you can guess how that name came to be.  We have a tally cut in the wood with my dad's, brother's and my intials with the running deer tally underneath.

The standing joke about the rock fort is that the only way I will let anyone even think about hunting it is by leasing the spot to them!!Haha

I let my brother go there during gun season one time because i had already seen a bucketfull of deer there and let them go and he was going through a dry spell.  Well he renamed the stand rock SH*^ because he did not see anything.  I shot a 7 point the next day out of it!!!

[David Schroeder]

Me & my hunting partner named this north slope "scrape mt." some big elk have torn up that side with 8-9 ft. scrapes. Another is "sleepy tree" fell asleep or just took a cat nap,while 4 elk were standing there watching us..our snouring must have called them in"

[Bear]

When I was a kid my Dad and I had a spot called The Bottleneck. The name doesn't require explanation. Most of my childhood hunting memories are from there. The first several pages of hero pics in the Father/Son album were taken within bow range of each other in that spot.

I now have one I call The Buck Stand. Obvious.

Then theres the Survey Tape Stand. The first time my buddy and I walked through the spot we kicked up a doe, so he immediately tied several feet of flagging tape around a tree. The tape is still there. As long as you can see the tape from your stand, you'll probably see deer too.

[beaver#1]

trapping spot- spook hill, a name my dad gave it when i was younger and trapped there(said he flet like he was being watched)

fishing spots( dead cow cove- uncle caught a dead cow; mama bear papabear- same cove split in two; the big hole- deepeset place in cypress creek,  also a hunting spot.

hunting spots.  cross the creek, its across the creek,  couch mountain, more of a big hill, squirle camp,  and the slough.  my hunting spot are not very creative are they.

[Jerry Jeffer]

#1 Gomez
#2 The clover leaf
#3 The carpet stand
#4 leaf dump
I could keep going, there has been many that have come and gone.

[wapiti792]

Aww man I love naming my spots:

1.The Blue Plastic Trail: an elk hunny hole that was marked by a friend in 1963 with bits of an old blue poncho he found in his pack. I have a piece of that plastic and I swear it glows now that Jack is dead.

2. The hourglass: I pinch between 2 fields that looks like an hourglass from the air. There have been 6 140 or better deer killed outa that tree in 10 years.

2. The outhouse: an old "2 seater" outhouse is all that is left of an old homestead. I have a stand hung there and killed the best deer of my life with my recurve (see Avatar) and another Dandy Buck last year.

I Love this thread already!

[bridog]

I had a bear bait that I went to once that the guide called the SH@THOLE (if you know what I mean).  It was the most god awful mesquito infested sh@thole I've ever been in.  There's no way anyone could have ever shot a bear there as you needed a windshield wiper to keep the skeeters off of your face and out of your netting and everywhere...  I just wanted to run away from there 10 minutes into let alone, 5 hours...  I still have nightmares!

Bridog

[JimB]

"The Trough"
 

[Whip]

I've got one I call the bachelor pad and a big buck corner that are pretty special.

[joevan125]

The best stand location i ever hunted was behind the dollar store in carrolton Al.  

We called it the dollar store stand.

I killed some very nice bucks 500yds behind that store.

[wisconsinteacher]

We have Mt Dew trail, there is a pop can hanging in the tree, and has been there for a long time.  I have the crapper stand, which is next to an outdoor crapper where some guys rifle hunt, there is Moose bait.  My bear bait next to Moose Creek, the point where the hardwoods meets the swamp.  Man there are tons of them now that I think about it, but if you were listening to us talk, you would be confused.

[RC]

We got one we call the "hole" another called the Bike field.Gator lake,The "corner". Of course we got easy ones like the Crabapple stand or the three persimmons or the Y . But as a rule you gotta live HOURS away before I show`m to ya.RC

[elknutz]

I have a tiny little water hole I call 5 bull.  Only because one time I had 5 bull elk come in together.  3- 3 points, a 5 and a 6.  No shot was taken but that is a long story.  Never seen an animal on it over the last 15 years.  Timing is everything and I have ants in my pants when I'm hunting.

[Jack Whitmire Jr]

PERSIMMON PATCH is a deadly funnel here on my place . You could walk through it 100 times and never dream the bucks funnel through there like they do . You can see 4 houses from this stand . I took my only buck that qualifies for P&Y from that stand during firearms season.

The REFRIGERATOR is a a stand the sun never hits on and you freeze when setting in it , but the deer like it !

The CHUTE is a place that funnels the deer by you because of a rock cliff everywhere else on that side of the hill .Nov 5th 2007 I saw 11 bucks on that stand in one morning, we don't have that many deer either.

GAR HOLE everyone who has set this stand sees nothing but me  

HACHET CORNER - a fence corner that has a hachet stuck in the tree from someone working on the fence line years ago .

[wihill]

A couple quick ones:

Ernie's Hill
The West Point
Swampfoot

[lpcjon2]

I have the swamp hole,and the beaver ridge.

[Stone Sheep]

We call my best elk spot "the meat locker"

One of my deer spots we call "the ghetto"

[bear1336]

One in WV called the gut pile ridge and one here in Ga called copperhead stump. I forgot the one in Mio, Mi called the Bear Track Path...

[kill shot]

My dad had a hot spot where two trails crossed. It was reffered to as "Hollywood & Vine".