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Post by Foggy on Sept 5, 2017 16:55:51 GMT -6
For several years I have contemplated locating one of my box blinds to look over the big swamp on my land. Today I used my rangefinder to determine the feasibility of this plan. Longest shot is about 250 and the shortest is about 70 yards. Lots of swamp edge to watch from a location near my building site. I like it! So I cleared out some trees and understory at the edge of the swamp in a good level spot just above the edge of the swamp. Should be easy acesss and I can get to this stand in just a few minutes from the big game on TV....grin. Gonna move my stand pretty soon. When I see this pic it looks quite easy to access....but I had to clear allot of small trees and brush to get this cleaned up. Stay tuned for stand placement in the next few days. Anyone else with new stands?? Let's see em.
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Post by badgerfowl on Sept 5, 2017 18:16:46 GMT -6
I'd have some from this past Saturday but it rained the entire time we were putting it up and was pouring when we finished so I neglected to get any pics of it. We had to blaze a small trail getting it where we wanted. Wish I had that tractor in your pic! Just a chainsaw for us.
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Post by badgerfowl on Sept 5, 2017 18:20:03 GMT -6
View from the stand. Out of the rain.
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Post by badgerfowl on Sept 5, 2017 18:24:45 GMT -6
. Put this up a little over a week ago. Exact same thing we put up Saturday. Finally a fully enclosed blind for gun hunting. This went up in July.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 5, 2017 19:11:33 GMT -6
I took pics of all my box blinds the other day. I put a number on each (got nine of 'em) with aluminum numbers I got at Menards (69 cents each). I also have 3 ladder stands and I am going to assign a letter to those.
Recently, I moved all the stands about (after logging). So none of my hunters have a clue what is going on now. With the pics and a little info on an index card.......Hopefully everyone will be able to know what I am talking about in the future? grin.
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Post by sd51555 on Sept 6, 2017 5:35:05 GMT -6
We upgraded a few of our stands on the other property. Sister brother got his hands on 3 brand new boat seats for nothing (old design I think) so we put them to use. We had to do some fixing here before this was safe again. Getting pretty good at chainsaw carpentry.
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Post by leexrayshady on Sept 6, 2017 6:19:21 GMT -6
I seriously thinking my next permanent stand will be a muddy/banks or other type of expensive blind, been able to walk in a couple the last few months and boy are they nice. save up starting now and when my wooden box blind finally gets to the point of no return get something nice in there
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Post by badbrad on Sept 6, 2017 6:25:16 GMT -6
Yes. Created a new stand in the natural inside corner of my land. Red is blockaid. Black is deer sidewalk. Blue circle is the stand. Yellow is my access.
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 6, 2017 6:33:25 GMT -6
Foggy Get an aerial pic and post on the cabin wall with all the stand locations.
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Post by sd51555 on Sept 6, 2017 6:34:09 GMT -6
That looks like a great stand location. One of the things that drew me into my new property was having base camp and road access on the east side. Leaves lots of low impact options with westerly winds. You're gonna be able to sneak in and out of there completely unnoticed.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 6, 2017 6:48:05 GMT -6
Foggy Get an aerial pic and post on the cabin wall with all the stand locations. Yep....I have a large laminated aerial map. I put the trails and stand locations on it. I have nine box blinds....and they have a number 1-9 on the stands. I also have three ladder stands (A,B,C) and have pics of each stand along with a description of what's going on in each blind.....and the best way to access the site. Eliminates allot of confusion if folks know where they are going and what to expect. Seems crazy....but writing it down is easier than telling a buncha folks whats going on.....and everyone gets confused, etc, etc.
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Post by buckvelvet on Sept 8, 2017 9:20:55 GMT -6
The cold weather (40s at night lately) have got me smelling fall. I shot some guns w/ my 10 year old daughter last Saturday in prep for the 9/16-9/17 youth hunt weekend.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 8, 2017 16:16:06 GMT -6
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 8, 2017 16:23:05 GMT -6
Damn nice.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 8, 2017 16:36:36 GMT -6
Next year I am going to add some landing extensions to those round poly blinds.....and more importantly I am going to make side doors for them instead of those cursed trap doors. Also gonna make good stairways with a hand-rail. I'm getting too old to do that trap door deal....and they make allot of noise and needless commotion IMO. I got a plan on how to make a "living hinge" door out of the existing blind sidewall to make a door. Should work slick. But.....I am done with big projects for this year.
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