amerritt6993

It seems as you have the property well covered but geography is only a start to good stand placement. The key questions to ask when looking at stand placement is where are the deer bedding, feeding and what paths they take to get to each area. Answer the first and the second and use the geography of the area to find the third. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Saw 2 the first two rubs of the year today in 7f. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Get long stakes and stake them in at an angle. Drive the steaks towards the enter of the stand. This will make it so that the steaks will not just slide out. The steeper the angle of the steaks and the deeper they go in the better. You can also use cork skews stakes. You can also drive poles in the ground and strap it down as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Download onX Hunt app. It is an app that showed property lines and also WMD lines. These lines are layers over google earth. I use it for find property lines and mark where stands, trail cams, and different way points are. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Haha yea I use a combo lock so I don’t have that problem as long as I don’t forget the code haha. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

When I leave mine in the woods I always secure it to a tree with a bike lock. Keeps me at ease. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Was out in the woods today and saw my first rubs of the season in 7f. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You could have nicked the lung but most likely you hit the cavity and some vitals arteries causing it to bleed out. That would most likely be why it ran so far. From stand you always want to shoot a little high and the closer the deer the higher you want to shoot and the farther you shoot the lower you want to shoot until you reach level. My best suggestion is learn the anatomy of the vitals and learn where that are located at different angles. Treat it the same as how you learned to shoot a deer at different on coming and flea wether it be broadside, quartered or straight on. Also you can buy targets to shoot at that are the equivalent to shooting at different angles whether from a stand or on the ground. I use the Glendale buck and I target shoot out of my stand more than I do on the ground seeing I only hunt out of a stand. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s a bit low on the exit, form the pics it looks also at an angle, were you in a stand when you shot it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk