After work this morning, I headed 89 miles north to meet a carpenter at the hunting land to get a bid on building a deer stand. Three of us walked the property, and it was a beautiful day. Lots of droppings and deer trails everywhere. It was 16 degrees and little snow in the woods.
The Norwegian family had a tree stand about 10 feet off the ground in a reverse tripod of red oaks. That is where we are going to build the new stand, a prime spot 1, 000 feet deep into the property.
The platform of the stand will be 14 feet off the ground for two reasons. First, higher up, one can follow game better.
Second, we have a prime woods loaded with deer, but the neighbors on two sides, to the west and to the north, have put deer stands very close to the property line so they can shoot what travels through their land, and also shoot and nab what is passing through on our side of the fence. Their plan is to shoot, drop, retrieve and get the carcass over the fence before we know that they have trespassed and protest.
With the stand in the middle of four deer stands all within a quarter of a mile of it, with a high-powered long gun wielded by hunters shooting ten shots in two days, our stand could be a risky place to stand.
To aid this, its platform will be well above their 6 foots platforms. If they shoot towards the ground and down, we should be safe, or so we hope.
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