WINNING SET-UP
#2: JackRbbt's Whitehart Island set-up
My entry (of course, cannot be other!) is the famous "turkeys' slaughterhouse", from North Whitehart Island:
Summary: 2 tents, 5 ground blinds, 4 tree stands, 1 depoyable tower (and 2 full spread turkey decoys). Details about "fine tuning", how I use it and some tactics are
here.
It evolved during the time, but stories are many: using it, I won 6 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze trophy in turkey competitions and 1 gold and 1 silver trophy on coyote competitions (as a funny note, from the most southern ground blind, the one nearest to camp site, I shot a turkey and a coyote winners within 10 minutes
). Also, two 190+ blacktails and a surprising (for that area) 187+ whitetail bucks (
http://www.thehunter.com/#profile/jackr ... /204477315) fell under its spell!
Additional details:
My setup contains:
- 2 tents (orange, because are place inside the forest and are easier to find, but forest camo can be also used)
- 5 ground blinds (basic camo)
- 4 treestands
- 1 deployable tower
- 3 full spread turkey decoys
They are placed as follows:
1 - South-Western meadow: 1 tent (as close as possible to treeline, one ground blind in the middle of the meadow, two tree stands, one facing East (the closest to the tent one), one on higher level, facing North-North East, across the upper field.
2 - South side of the lake: 1 ground blind, 30-35 meters East from the road, one tree stand facing East-North East, 1 decoys full spread, 38 meters from the tree stand.
3 - Eastern meadow: 1 deployable tower, 1 ground blind, 1 decoys full spread at 40 meters from tower and blind.
4 - North Eastern meadow: 1 ground blind right in the middle of the meadow.
5 - Flanker's "gold mine": 1 tent, 1 tree stand facing South (along the road), 1 decoys full spread at 38 meters from tree stand.
6 - North Western meadow: 1 ground blind on meadow's margin (single elevated position, good visibility all around).
@1:
tent X: -14424 , Y: 5845
ground blind X: -14334, Y: 5837
tree stand #1 X: -14424, Y: 5776 - facing North-East
tree stand #2 X: -14392, Y: 5809 - facing East (use it on better spotting from far, for turkeys coming out of the forest)
@2:
ground blind X: -13956, Y: 5710
tree stand X: -13984, Y: 5706 - facing North (along the lake shore)
decoys X: -13962, Y: 5694
@3:
ground blind X: -13714, Y: 5497
deployable tower X: -13704 , Y: 5436
decoys X: -13697, Y: 5508
@4:
ground blind X: -13830, Y: 5171
@5:
tent X: -14384, Y: 4922
treestand X: -14347, Y: 4896 - facing South (along the road)
decoys X: -14330, Y: 4997
@6:
ground blind X: -14409, Y: 5207
Decoys are placed into equilateral triangle shape, with 6-10 meters edge. Coordinates are for the center of that triangle.