Recap: at the close of full metal jacket deer hunting season (2016), we ventured out and located a suspected hunting camp in the back woods; upon locating said camp, we planned and executed a detailed recon last weekend. We circled around the back side of the tent to check on any associated tree stands and found none. After confirming no combatants were nearby, a security perimeter was set up (see second image) as the photo team crept up the hillside to about 50 yards. With our new 150-600mm telephoto zoom lens, we got the image above.
Our recon indicates the hunters did not have a nearby tree stand and were not necessarily wandering around and setting adhoc temporary shooting zones. They were sitting in the tent and waiting for targets to wander by and shooting at them through holes in the tent’s netting.
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Latest backwoods recon
Last weekend we found this tent in the backwoods after the son of our neighbor alerted us to its existence. We believe this structure was put up by the several hunters who have been hunting over the month of November (see previous post showing vehicles parked along our road).
Now that the prime deer hunting season is over, we ventured out today and got closer to this structure (as mentioned in the previous post, there is still legitimate hunting going on, however the allowed targets and weaponry are significantly toned down). Our next post will report on this recon later. We still wear some orange in case anyone is hunting during this semi off-season.
In “our” woods, there are nine tree stands that we know of. In a previous post, we showed the pair across our road that appear to be active this year. Among the tree stands on our side of the road, all of them appear to be abandoned or, at least, inactive. Here are examples of two:
We think the tent owners do not have a tree stand themselves and are using their tent as a base to go to different sites around the woods where they believe deer trails exist. Once they identify a prospective active trail, they will hunker down and wait for the deer to pass by.