wooden deer stand

[tahtah]

If you've hunted for very long, you've run across an old wooden stand in a tree. They are usually rotten, fallen apart and long forgotten. I saw this on a WMA today. It wasn't there a few weeks ago. It's part of a pallet on top of ONE 8' 2x4, attached to the tree with a ratchet strap. Plus there were no less than a half dozen scent wicks hanging in all the surrounding limbs.

 

[tug]

What could possibly go wrong.

 

[ronnycl]

I suprised you found it with that Camo job! Blends right in like it's invisible.

 

[Gravey]

Wow that takes me back to a time when we built them and thought they were the greatest thing ever.

 

[Plateau Hunter]

Very innovative! Lol

 

[Carlos Viagra]

That's interesting.

 

[redblood]

Wow that takes me back to a time when we built them and thought they were the greatest thing ever.

I still do on my farms. I love them. And they are so quiet and easy to enter

 

[BamaProud]

I hope whoever built that kills a monster out of it!

 

[Carlos Viagra]

So is this meant for the hunter to sit on the pallet and let their legs hang off the front?

 

[GRIT]

So is this meant for the hunter to sit on the pallet and let their legs hang off the front?

He is probably gonna use a strap on Hunting chair/seat.

 

[DoubleRidge]

With the previous lumber prices I can kinda understand the single 2x4.

 

[Whitetaillane8]

Looks better than some of the cheap ladder stands being sold online

 

[74MOPAR]

Way too much time and energy spent on building that and hauling it into the woods.

 

[Specializedjon]

All that work and it looks like he'll only be about 6' up in the tree

 

[Southern Sportsman]

Bahahaha.

MeatEater was/is asking people to send in pics of janky old deer stands they run across. They published a calendar and are coming out with a coffee table book titled "Fu**ed up Old Deer Stands" with the best pictures. You should really send that one in.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Better than what I killed my first deer from. Had pics on my old phone, didn't transfer to the one I am currently using.

 

[RUGER]

LOL awesome !

 

[Wrangler95]

Built several wood stands back in the 70's!!

 

[tahtah]

Bahahaha.

MeatEater was/is asking people to send in pics of janky old deer stands they run across. They published a calendar and are coming out with a coffee table book titled "Fu**ed up Old Deer Stands" with the best pictures. You should really send that one in.

But it's not old. Notice the tags are still on the steps.

 

[cbhunter]

I'm just wondering what the square brown box is about the stand against the tree. Looks to be roughly 6"x6" or smaller

 

[huntintn]

I'm just wondering what the square brown box is about the stand against the tree. Looks to be roughly 6"x6" or smaller

GPS in case someone steals it.

 

[megalomaniac]

that thing twists off the tree and you could easily be eviscerated by the screw in steps on the way to the ground.

 

[catman529]

Now y'all can't give me crap for my wooden stand I built in 2012...this one got me beat

 

[catman529]

Not trying to hijack the thread but I couldn't count how many old stands I've come across. I found this one last year, I thought it was pretty cool.

 

[Shed Hunter]

At least it's so close to the ground it won't hurt too bad if he falls

 

[GRIT]

Back in the early 80s i knew a guy that hunted about 5 maybe 6 foot off the ground in a stand that's close to this stand in looks.He was a smoker and he killed the heck out of bucks.

 

[cbhunter]

GPS in case someone steals it.

that got a real chuckle out of me, i needed that

 

[huvrman]

And all the people said "hmmmmmmmmm."

 

[Bone Collector]

Wow that takes me back to a time when we built them and thought they were the greatest thing ever.

was hunting on the ground Tuesday AM on the WMA in a cedar thicket and as I sat there, I thought this is just like when I started, no stands, just move the leaves at the base of a tree and sit against it. I thought before stands were everywhere you hunted like this or you lugged in a bunch of lumbar to make one. Those were your options or a Baker widow maker

 

[double browtine]

Those old wooden stands are still safer than the ole Baker Treestands!