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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Billy74 on June 06, 2022, 09:11:07 AM

Title: Home made deer stands
Post by: Billy74 on June 06, 2022, 09:11:07 AM: Over the years I’ve come across quite a few DIY stands and blinds. Some of the stands are only 5 or so feet high. I assume these are for hunting but it seems low.

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Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Southpole on June 06, 2022, 09:17:34 AM: I’ll sell you this one. Insulated with milgard windows. Overbuilt bottom side to hold 4 posts for elevation. We were going to do 12 feet. Pipe dream gone bad :( :chuckle: .
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 06, 2022, 09:24:39 AM: 5 feet seems awful low. Maybe it is just too see over some brush for getting a clear shot on a specific trail. When I was a kid my stepdad had a network of stands in the areas he hunted. Homemade would be an understatement. He always built them out of whatever he found on the ground. And they were ridiculously high up the tree. Like 30'-40'. I was terrified to go into most of them. He basically took stout pine branches and nailed or screwed them into a tall tree until he got high enough up to suit himself, then built a tiny log platform to sit on.
Harness?!! We don't need no stinking harnesses.... :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 06, 2022, 09:26:01 AM: ...Basically, the opposite of what Southpole just posted.... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Woodchuck on June 06, 2022, 11:42:53 AM: As a kid our list of supplies was this
1 pallet
2 2x4's
handful of 16 penny nails
done
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Griiz on June 06, 2022, 12:11:41 PM: I carry twine, a little folding saw, and a few screw in steps. I climb trees when I find one I think will produce and will work for my style stand. I climb the tree and cut branches off and use them to make a cage, seat, etc. using twine to tie them in place. I harvest most of my blacktails out of this style stand and I don't have to worry about someone stealing it.
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: hunterednate on June 06, 2022, 12:16:00 PM: Quote from: Griiz on June 06, 2022, 12:11:41 PM
I carry twine, a little folding saw, and a few screw in steps. I climb trees when I find one I think will produce and will work for my style stand. I climb the tree and cut branches off and use them to make a cage, seat, etc. using twine to tie them in place. I harvest most of my blacktails out of this style stand and I don't have to worry about someone stealing it.

This is awesome. Do you have any photos of one of your setups?
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 06, 2022, 12:24:46 PM: I wish I had snapped a photo of one of his stands. Here is my best artist's rendition...
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Griiz on June 06, 2022, 12:29:53 PM: Quote from: hunterednate on June 06, 2022, 12:16:00 PM
Quote from: Griiz on June 06, 2022, 12:11:41 PM
I carry twine, a little folding saw, and a few screw in steps. I climb trees when I find one I think will produce and will work for my style stand. I climb the tree and cut branches off and use them to make a cage, seat, etc. using twine to tie them in place. I harvest most of my blacktails out of this style stand and I don't have to worry about someone stealing it.

I don't have any photos. Thanks

This is awesome. Do you have any photos of one of your setups?
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Griiz on June 06, 2022, 12:30:42 PM: Quote from: Pathfinder101 on June 06, 2022, 12:24:46 PM
I wish I had snapped a photo of one of his stands. Here is my best artist's rendition...

Ha Ha Ha. That one would be too comfortable and I'd fall asleep.
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 06, 2022, 12:57:12 PM: Added 12 year old me for reference... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: stew pidasso on June 06, 2022, 01:01:16 PM: Found this deep in the mason unit, wouldn't have held me I don't think. My daughter likes risking her life though. Close to 25' up
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: NOCK NOCK on June 06, 2022, 06:40:43 PM: I know alot dont like it and consider it trash, but I enjoy finding homemade stands in the woods. Most of them are from years ago and are in shambles, i always wonder about all the success/failures the hunter had there, like finding a piece of history for me.
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: callturner on June 06, 2022, 08:43:56 PM: Back in high school my buddy fell out of one and broke his neck. He was paralized for 2 weeks. Wont go near one anymore.
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: bigmacc on June 07, 2022, 10:28:33 PM: My grandpa had a “blind” that he used to build, some on here know of it. I remember as a boy hiking into this spot a week or two before the season. We would cut down trees, limbs, etc. and pile them around an old Ponderosa that was about 6 feet around. I’ve told stories of this “tree”, my mom unloading a 30-30 without fireing a shot on a huge 4 point, my dad and mom sitting in there only to have a buck sneak in behind and sniff my dads neck, freaking him and the deer out only to have it blow snot all over my dad as they locked eyes. My great grandpa and myself watching close to 200 deer come up the route only to split and go around “the tree”, taking the two different trails that were only 40 or so yards from the tree. There was a fire in this area a while back, a DNR fella found the plaque that hung on the big tree, it told the story, they left it standing when cutting down the others, it had minimal fire damage but everything around it was burnt bad. My great grandpa sat under that tree for the first time in 1917, its a spot that dozens of family and friends have sat for over a hundred years. Many stories and memories have come from that tree. To this day close to 150 or so bucks have been killed there. When ever anyone goes there they follow the procedure, go in a few weeks before the season, gather and cut your branches, limbs etc and pile them around the base of the big tree, when hunting it, get there a few hours before daylight, climb inside, pull the branches around you, lean against the tree and take a nap. When you wake up, it’s magic!
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: vandeman17 on June 08, 2022, 06:06:03 AM: Quote from: NOCK NOCK on June 06, 2022, 06:40:43 PM
I know alot dont like it and consider it trash, but I enjoy finding homemade stands in the woods. Most of them are from years ago and are in shambles, i always wonder about all the success/failures the hunter had there, like finding a piece of history for me.

I do too when they are wood. Eventually they will rot and become part of the forest. I have seen some that I am sure could tell some cool stories.
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Bullkllr on June 08, 2022, 08:28:03 AM: Quote from: vandeman17 on June 08, 2022, 06:06:03 AM
Quote from: NOCK NOCK on June 06, 2022, 06:40:43 PM
I know alot dont like it and consider it trash, but I enjoy finding homemade stands in the woods. Most of them are from years ago and are in shambles, i always wonder about all the success/failures the hunter had there, like finding a piece of history for me.

I do too when they are wood. Eventually they will rot and become part of the forest. I have seen some that I am sure could tell some cool stories.

It is kind of cool to find them.

There used to be a huge one on the southeast side of the Pe Ell tree farm. IIRC it was an octagon or circle shape. Had to be 10 or 12 feet in diameter, complete with a nice roof. You could live in it. Always wondered what the story was on that and what ended up happening to it.
Title: Re: Home made deer stands
Post by: Skyvalhunter on June 08, 2022, 09:14:34 AM: Homeless people took it over, smoked crack and burned it to the ground