This is the stand I put the shooting chairs on. It sits in the bottom of a bowl shape. The top of the ridge is 250 yards away. There are food plots in two of the shooting lanes. Camo netting goes around the lower half.
My Number 1 Stand
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Must be pretty country...CL
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It is pretty. Always loved upstate NY. Despised the city. Hunted in Delaware county in the early 1980's
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I've driven my truck delivering cotton seed all over NY state and it is very beautiful. The city gives it a bad rap. the finger lakes area is out standing and some of the nicest people you ever wanted to meet.
Nice tree stand NYDAN.
Nice tree stand NYDAN.
DrMike
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Great tree stand, Dan. The Finger Lakes region is lovely. Actually, most of upstate NY was quite lovely.
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Ammo Smith
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Looks like Southern Tier country side around the Appalachian Mts.
Silentstalker
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Gorgeous country! Bet you have a great time sitting in that blind soaking it all in!
Larry in SD
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Very nice looking country indeed. Heck if this ole country boy got that far up in a tree I'd get a nose bleed or worse.
Larry
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Silentstalker, Yes, I really enjoy this stand. With the shooting chairs that I build to put in it (and liquids, lunch and snacks) I can sit there comfortably all day. In the summer when I am working over on that hill I always eat my lunch in the stand.
Also, if is fun to take my lady friend over there on a summer evening and watch the wildlife come out. She thinks it is romantic......... :grin:
Also, if is fun to take my lady friend over there on a summer evening and watch the wildlife come out. She thinks it is romantic......... :grin:
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NYDAN":28p8zu2s said:
Dan I can understand why she would think it would be romantic. My wife and I used Painted Post as a base for our vacation last year and she fell in love with the beauty on the area and wildlife.
Do you know when the Elk reserve is open to the public out side of Watkins Glen. When we were running around I found it but no one could tell me anything about it. My wife was very thrilled to here the Big Bull Elk Bugle while we watched him strut in the compounds meadow from the county road.
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Truck Driver, I was surprised by your question concerning Elk around Watkins Glen since I was not aware that there were any. I did a Google search on Elk in Watkins Glen and came up with two possibilities. One was an animal sanctuary that has a reputation as being very Pro PETA. Visitors get an indoctrination program. The other was something called "Elk Park". That one I know nothing about. The photo that I saw looked like it was the waterfront park. I don't know if "Elk Park" is just a name or if there are actually elk there. I am sorry that I don't know more.
Now there are elk in a couple of nearby locations. One is an elk farm in Darien Lake on Route 20 just east of the intersection of route 77. I stopped there and chatted with the owner's wife once. They were very nice and friendly and gave me some information. If I remember correctly they sell the antlers as an aphrodisiac for the far east market. I am pretty sure they would have let me in to view the elk if I had wanted. Since there was a blizzard roaring at the time, I didn't want to.
Also, elk have been reintroduced in PA. The elk herd's range is currently believed to extend into parts of Elk, Cameron, McKean, Potter, Clinton, Centre & Clearfield counties with the central point of the herd being located in Elk and more specifically Benezette. Here are two links:
http://paelk.com/
http://elkcountryvisitorcenter.com/drupal/
I hope this is helpful.
Dan
Now there are elk in a couple of nearby locations. One is an elk farm in Darien Lake on Route 20 just east of the intersection of route 77. I stopped there and chatted with the owner's wife once. They were very nice and friendly and gave me some information. If I remember correctly they sell the antlers as an aphrodisiac for the far east market. I am pretty sure they would have let me in to view the elk if I had wanted. Since there was a blizzard roaring at the time, I didn't want to.
Also, elk have been reintroduced in PA. The elk herd's range is currently believed to extend into parts of Elk, Cameron, McKean, Potter, Clinton, Centre & Clearfield counties with the central point of the herd being located in Elk and more specifically Benezette. Here are two links:
http://paelk.com/
http://elkcountryvisitorcenter.com/drupal/
I hope this is helpful.
Dan
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Thanks Dan. The place I saw was on the hill west of Watkins Glen town center. I took pics with my cell phone since the batteries were dead in my camera. This looked like a safari ride park where you could ride threw and view the Elk. But being Oct and at the beginning of the rut the park was closed.
I'll post some pics when I get them up down loaded to my computer.
I'll post some pics when I get them up down loaded to my computer.
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Truck Driver,
I think I found what you are talking about:
Elk Ridge at the Glen
Martin Wojcik
3362 Route 409
Watkins Glen, NY 14891 PH: 607-535-5525, 609-259-9204
FAX: 607-535-5523, 609-259-7495
This is where I found the information:
http://www.ndef.org/members/members.cgi?state=NY
I think I found what you are talking about:
Elk Ridge at the Glen
Martin Wojcik
3362 Route 409
Watkins Glen, NY 14891 PH: 607-535-5525, 609-259-9204
FAX: 607-535-5523, 609-259-7495
This is where I found the information:
http://www.ndef.org/members/members.cgi?state=NY
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Ammo Smith
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Truck Driver,
You aroused my curiosity with the Elk Farm so I drove over there this morning and took the following photos. This is on route 409 and matches the photo you provided.
Thank you for letting me know about this.
Dan
You aroused my curiosity with the Elk Farm so I drove over there this morning and took the following photos. This is on route 409 and matches the photo you provided.
Thank you for letting me know about this.
Dan
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Heck yeah it is! Love Upstate New York.. Still call it home. It has some awesome places, that most would never think of when they think of NY. Decent sized mountains in the Catskills and Adirondacks, big mountain lakes, and good hunting and fishing. If they could detach from NYC, I am betting most of them would.
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The farther west you got away from the Hudson valley the nicer the country and people are.
The NYC influence is very noticeable From Sarasota south to NYC. Central NY is like walking back in time. I spent 5 years delivering farm commodities and drove my tractor trailer all over the state. Got to see all there was to see and some things I didn't want to see.
I'll be back up in the Buffalo area in July with my wife for the World Horse Shoe pitching tournament and spend some time checking out Niagara Falls and other sites my wife wants to see. :mrgreen:
The NYC influence is very noticeable From Sarasota south to NYC. Central NY is like walking back in time. I spent 5 years delivering farm commodities and drove my tractor trailer all over the state. Got to see all there was to see and some things I didn't want to see.
I'll be back up in the Buffalo area in July with my wife for the World Horse Shoe pitching tournament and spend some time checking out Niagara Falls and other sites my wife wants to see. :mrgreen:
