Rccordrey
Active Member
Can you show some of your pictures this year? Here's what I got so far.
Rccordrey said:
Rccordrey said:One piebald just bare patches
g2outdoors said:First a little story...
Last season I had a tree prepped for my saddle on the hard-to-get-to side of a small creek. I only hunted it once because I was concentrating on a different buck. At the end of the season when I went to get my stick ladders and Ameristep platform out of the woods I bumped into another hunter setup on the easy-to-get-to side of the creek. He was pulling his setup down as well. Our trees were only 40 yards apart separated by the creek. The creek was so thick and overgrown that you couldn't see 40 yards during the pre-season when I setup the tree. After the leaves fell and autumn set in he could see my ladder sticks across the creek.
We began to chat about the season and he mentioned that he couldn't figure out how I was hunting out of such a weird tree. Also he couldn't believe that I would go through the trouble of lugging a lock-on stand in and out of that spot every hunt. That's when I showed him the tree saddle and explained how it worked. Mind blown. He went on to tell me about how jealous he was of my setup because every time he hunted there the deer were all around my tree but they rarely crossed over to him where he could get a shot.
That got me curious enough to go back in and put out the trail cam.
Besides a bunch of does and small bucks. I got this fella. For where I hunt on pressured public land, this is a VERY good deer. I'll spend a little more time on this side of the creek during hunting season.