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Deer Stand Names

BTaylor said:
It is a flat on a ridge where it is running down towards the main creek bottom through the property. There are shallow draws that come up on both sides of the flat and all of that intersects at an inside corner of a big pasture. Half a dozen big white oaks on the flat as well. On the right wind it is really good.
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OOOOOOH!!! Now I wanna hunt it too.
 
We also have a stand we call Sleepy Gerald. I had shot a small 8-point during ML after he ran in and bedded down in the weeds 70 yards in front of me. I dropped him when he stood up.

My niece asked me what his name was, and when I said he didn't have a name yet, she said "He's Sleepy Gerald!" So that stuck and we also call that tree the Sleepy Gerald stand.
 
I've hunted a lot of stands the names of which bring back great memories. Some of the names anyone can fathom without context others not so much.
The Gnarly, the Knobby, the squeaker, the hedge, the Ninja, the One, the Other, the Crippler, the Stand Above the Prairie, Wounded Knee, Sneaky Pete, the Hub. That's just a few.
 
We usually name ours on our family farm based on the land feature we're hunting (e.g., Creek Crossing Stand, Ridge Stand, Oak Flat Stand, etc.), but when somebody kills the first deer out of that stand, we rename it to be "their" stand (e.g., Luke's Stand, Chris' Stand, Jimbo's Stand). It's a cool way to keep the guys who have hunted with us over the years in our thoughts each year.
 
At camp property, most are named after the guys that erected them in the past back when they were 2 x 4's nailed to the trees. A lot of those guys are now dead, some a full generation ago that I never even met. Those 2 x 4 death traps have been replaced by ladder stands, but the names of the stands live on.

Elsewhere across the mid-Atlantic region, aka in my GPS where I have hundreds of spots marked, I just use a basic abbreviated feature such as XNG, PNT, BNCH, SCRP, BBEDS, DBEDS, etc. and the date. By incorporating the date I can usually relate to when I was there and that triggers enough memory about it, at least places I've been the last several years. TBD in 20 or 30 years how that system works out for me. If I'm scouting and come across a spot that I am really sure I want to hunt, I then make a short video on my phone jibber jabbing about it, specifically about features to look for to nail my access in the dark.
 
Phopkins said:
I've hunted a lot of stands the names of which bring back great memories. Some of the names anyone can fathom without context others not so much.
The Gnarly, the Knobby, the squeaker, the hedge, the Ninja, the One, the Other, the Crippler, the Stand Above the Prairie, Wounded Knee, Sneaky Pete, the Hub. That's just a few.
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The Crippler reminds me of one called the Maimed stand. Person on that stand doen't like the name for obvious reasons.
 
Where I used to work, if you had a mishap someplace on the landscape, it might get named after you. The washout where James got stuck would forever be known as "Jimbo's Wash", even after James moved away and nobody remembers him anymore. In the same vein as naming a stand to memorialize a young hunter's first kill, if not quite as flattering.
 
Lazy man (closest to the cabin), Farmers market (biggest food plot), Sausage bend (always seem to kill deer there), The Bowl (3 ridges fell into low area), High tower(tallest ridge on the property), The Pine (in a cedar tree) and a bunch of location names - East Line.
 
We've been naming trees for years. It helps w/ the planning and the story telling. When I was younger I hunted with a group of guys. With multiple guys at the parking lot, it was just easier visualize and to keep track where everyone was going in the AM. We would say where you going? I'm gonna hunt "Rick's tree", "the hole", "the cedar" etc. Now it's just me and my hunting partner but we Still do it. "the cottonwood", "the river tree", "backdoor tree", "road tree", the high spot"," the scrape tree.", the double", " the corner", " the cluster". They only get named if there was something noteworthy about the location.
 
South Pine Stand
Orchard
second right
Big field stand
Pine pear stand
The split
The killing tree
Double
North Field
Behind the cabin
Pond trail
Powerlines
Really just to save explaining the area I'm referencing when in conversation. I'm sure there were a lot more but after I sold the farm, not much need to remember them any longer.
 
I still hunt the area I started hunting with my Dad and grandpa many years ago, but back when I started it was a big traditional deer camp with probably 10-12 different guys that would be around for parts or all of deer season. We had camp alongside National Forest, and would walk out onto about 3000 acres of public with relatively small pressure aside from the dozen guys that would show up to our camp. Now, it's pretty much me hunting solo and a few other people who camp there but it's not really a shared camp experience. Back then, we had a bunch of stand or area names.

"The beech"- monster old beech tree with a 2x4 ladder up to a big, multi limbed crotch about 12 feet in the air at the end of a finger ridge that ends at a bottom. This tree was super productive in gun season, when the bucks would drop off one ridge system and run up this finger to scent check the old clear cut bedding. A lightning storm took out half of this tree and the forest grew up around it to where it's not a great spot anymore, but still good hunting higher up the ridge.

"The fallen beech"- downed beech tree that created a natural ground blind that looked at a big ridgeside with a bench well within shotgun range. Close to camp, so a favorite of my grandpa which led to it being the location where I first field dressed a deer. I still remember him coming back to camp at lunch time (I was about 12 and never made it much past about 930 or 10 on cold mornings) and announcing, "I got me a doe. You'll find her at the base of the hill by the fallen beech, go get it and bring it back to camp." So I got to learn on the job and figure out how to dress her and drag her back.

"The ****house"- A log behind the showerhouse at camp. Favorite spot of the camp drunk who couldn't be bothered to actually wake up and walk out. Not very productive, but there were occasionally deer shot here on opening day as the pressure moved them around.

"The last cut"- A saddle at the edge of the last clearcut in our bottom at the top of a large ridge. Still a great spot that I hunt yearly and have had some amazing encounters.

"The bowl"- A large bowl formed by a saddle in two finger ridges. The saddle connects a half mile long ridge to a large pasture where the public ends and private starts. Tons of big deer killed here, but it has been the target of too much pressure as it's a super short walk from camp.

"The backside"- the opposite side of the saddle in "the bowl" is a long, meandering ridge face with some small benches and tons of cover and acorn mast. Site of the mythical location where my Grandpa unloaded his 870 Wingmaster on a herd of does and a buck as they meandered through many many years ago. 5 shots fired, 5 neck shots dropping all 5 deer in their tracks with the last 4 being shot on the run. I don't hunt this because it is a pain to get a deer out now that I'm usually hunting solo.
 
elk yinzer said:
At camp property, most are named after the guys that erected them in the past back when they were 2 x 4's nailed to the trees. A lot of those guys are now dead, some a full generation ago that I never even met. Those 2 x 4 death traps have been replaced by ladder stands, but the names of the stands live on.

Elsewhere across the mid-Atlantic region, aka in my GPS where I have hundreds of spots marked, I just use a basic abbreviated feature such as XNG, PNT, BNCH, SCRP, BBEDS, DBEDS, etc. and the date. By incorporating the date I can usually relate to when I was there and that triggers enough memory about it, at least places I've been the last several years. TBD in 20 or 30 years how that system works out for me. If I'm scouting and come across a spot that I am really sure I want to hunt, I then make a short video on my phone jibber jabbing about it, specifically about features to look for to nail my access in the dark.
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OMG you guys actually drove nails into those poor trees! What if someday someone wants to kill them and log them? We should enact a law to protect those trees! LOL My camp had the same tradition. And some of them were definitely death traps. My dad fell once while building one of them. The cedar branch he was sitting on broke and down he went 15'. He got the wind knocked out of him but was Unhurt. It definitely could've been real bad though. There was a stump just to his right where he landed.

I do the same thing hunting elk in the mountains w/ my GPS or my fish finder on the big lake. At the time, my notes make perfect sense but if I go back years later it's not clear. I must be getting senile!
 
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