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Re: Stand and Feeder placement?
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09/08/15 01:32 PM
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Spent some time out in the woods cleaning up this past weekend. Walked around quite a bit to see what the final plan was going to be and decided to just leave the stand in its current location and move the feeder farther back. I gained approx. another 40 yards from where the feeder used to be and can see a lot more area now. The pics below don't do any justice of how much my wife and I cleared out. The feeder last year was around 50 yards to the stand and the new location is closer to 90 yards now. There's a nice shooting lane between the two red lines below, but I can now also see through the trees from the furthest west red line and the feeder Cut one tree down then remembered to take a before picture. After..
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Re: Stand and Feeder placement?
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09/08/15 01:33 PM
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When I said a lot of this country is thick...this is what I was dealing with. You can't see 10 feet back in there.
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Re: Stand and Feeder placement?
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09/08/15 04:14 PM
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Now you're directly up wind if it stays the common Southerly flow It is fun work though, even if the humidity is 180%
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Re: Stand and Feeder placement?
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09/08/15 04:26 PM
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180% and zero wind in that little hole while working Saturday...I looked like I jumped in a pool when I was done. I looked into swapping the stand and feeder location like you previously posted, but that's a lot of clearing in thick brush I cant even currently walk through. My FIL was supposed to burn a lot of the place back in feb./march, but never got around to it. If it happens this next year it should open up a whole new can of worms and my options should greatly improve.
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Re: Stand and Feeder placement?
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09/08/15 05:46 PM
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I like Nav and Snipers ideas. East Texas deer are real spooky. You need to get the feeder away from blind. Also, the way you have it set up, your scent is going right to the feeder when the wind is from south.
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Re: Stand and Feeder placement?
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09/08/15 07:37 PM
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Wind and the currents can do strange things especially when the wind has to bounce off trees and hills and tend to swirl. It's not just going to follow a straight line in most cases. I would sit in the blind and with a south wind and use some powder to check the wind currents. Crushed cattails are better as they ride the currents further and are easy to see.
Thursday at 12:45 PM #33 Once i learned that i didn't "NEED" to kill something, and that if i did kill something all the fun stopped and work began, i was a much better hunter.
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