#1779185 - 02/10/10 12:30 PM
Re: Times have changed...
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44fanatic
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Loc: Clarksville, Montgomery Cnty
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I just learned something....found an old stand a couple of years ago, just havnt had the opportunity to make it back out there. renegade and a few others probably know where it is.
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#1779189 - 02/10/10 12:36 PM
Re: Times have changed...
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Beekeeper
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Loc: McMinn Co. Tennessee
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Some of the first places I hunted had stands like this.
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#1779193 - 02/10/10 12:38 PM
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BigWes50
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Loc: Chattanooga, TN
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I love building stands, honestly I prefer them over any other kind of stand but they are only good for a few years. But boy do I love them that first year when I know they are new and safe!
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#1780672 - 02/10/10 09:15 PM
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Tnyoteboy
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Loc: Bartlett
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We used to make ladder stands out of 2X4s and pallets. Lasted as long as we had the lease. Wouldn't do it to save my life now.
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#1781020 - 02/10/10 10:14 PM
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mrjim43
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Loc: Benton Co.,Tn
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That was all we ever. Lots of time we made them out of what we could find in the surrounding woods. No ply wood or two by fours just small trees and limbs woven in and out of the tree limbs. Thank the Lord we never fell thru. The Good Lord looks out dumb people or my brother or I would not be here today.
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#1781110 - 02/10/10 10:35 PM
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RKenney
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Loc: Maury Co.
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mrjim43,
I hear you brother. We always used dogwood. It seemed to resist
rot the most. I have climbed some woods made stands years ago,
that looking back, I feel fortunate not to be dead or paralized.
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#1781235 - 02/11/10 03:24 AM
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bowriter
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On the left bank of Jones Creek on Center Hill, as you are coming out, is an old wooden stand. It has been there as long as I have have fished that lake...at leat 40 years.
I can catch a fish in front of that stand any time I want to.
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#1781301 - 02/11/10 06:49 AM
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Double-D-Team
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Registered: 12/18/02
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Loc: God's Country
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If these old stands could tell the story...The property I have has about 20 of these old stands. They told me the old man that owned this property was a deer hunter and I'll say he was. For there is sign around everyone of those old stands and he knew how to read the land. I just wish I could have meet the old man...
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#1782464 - 02/11/10 06:32 PM
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tickweed
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Loc: medon,Tn.
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Brings back many memories.Remember the ones that had spikes for steps?Bad for the timber.As kids,We had them,and always had shootin rails all around it.Man,those was the days!
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