Ok. So I go out on Fri. night. I've spoken with Rob and he has seen the aerial photo of the area that I hunt and he has suggested that I go to the far Northwest corner of the property.
There had been a cool spot back there where a large blown down tree stayed propped up on it's stump that was several feet tall. Another hunter had at some point leaned a narrow metal ladder against the tree and had evidently used it as an elevated stand. Well over this past winter the tree had finally fallen over leaving the stump half rotted out with the opening facing the woods.
My husband had planted corn at this farm this year. There are a few acres of woods in the Northwest area of this property with a creek that runs just yards south of the property line. Corn pretty much surrounds it.
After trying another spot and realizing the wind would not be in my favor I decided to try sitting inside the rotted stump. So I pulled some of the large chunks of punky wood out and put my tripod stool in it. It was pretty cozy in there.
This is the stump 2 weeks after shooting the buck. There was
not this much leaf cover on the ground 2 weeks ago.