Father time is undefeated. All these younger guys will eventually get old and that climbing stand/ladder stand won’t be as attractive as it one was. Just remember to enjoy the things you can still do instead of being angry about what you can no longer safely do.

One of my favorite things about enclosed stand are the journals and writing on the walls. I keep tabs of how many bucks I see per year on the wall along with a jour.
nal of conditions. When a stand finally needs to be rebuilt, the "paneling" with the writing goes into the new stand. I can sit in there, glance at the wall and try to visualize each and every buck I saw.


160 That's exactly what we do. We also record all the kills, dates, times. My daughters stand goes back about 95 or so. Lot of writing on those walls!!!

5 x 7 is Nice too

Looks good. I use ground blinds and I did build an elevated platform that is about 3 feet off the ground and set a ground blind on top of it. I have 3 double ladder stands placed around the ranch that work well. I think I used one of them just one time but still like ground blinds better. I do plan on using those ladder stands this year though.

Nice blind, we just had new windows put in and I kept a couple of the old ones. Plan on making something similar