I realize that hunting the same treestand too often can definitely have a detrimental effect on the chances of shooting a big buck from that location.  I also realize that one of the best chances you have to shoot a deer from a stand happens the first time you sit it.  With that in mind, my plan this weekend is to return to the stand I shot my doe out of on the Opening Day of Archery Season, and see what happens.

I’m not sure why, but after shooting the doe, I pretty much abandoned the stand.  I hunted in the evening a few days later, and then gave up on the stand completely.  Last weekend, though, I was sitting a stand about a 150yds away from this particular stand, and watched the huge buck that was running does take a trail that would put him about 20yds behind that stand.  Doh!  I realize, though, that even if I had sat the stand the circumstances might have been different, and he might not have taken that route.  But it was still disheartening to watch him trotting right towards it, and not towards the stand I was sitting in.

After watching that particular scene unfold in front me, I made up my mind this week that I’m returning to the only stand that has provided success for me this year.  Plus, with the amount of activity that Jeff has been seeing near this particular stand, it seems obvious that I need to return to that stand on Saturday morning and see what kind of action unfolds.

The stand location is on the backside of a ridge that runs through the center of the property, and right in front of the stand is some of the thickest, nastiest stuff you’ve ever seen.

I’m hoping – considering that gun season is already upon us – that being so close to the thick stuff will pay off.  Hopefully a nice buck thinks the same way I do.

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