Lets talk treestands

[irishevox]

I will never slide a climber up and down a tree every time to hunt!!! nor will I pack it in or out everytime I hunt! holy cow. not to include you have to remove all the cover to hide you in the tree with a climber!! have fun with a big whitey. All climbers have a rail around them.this makes shooting a deer with a bow even harder...u have to stand! All the deer I have shot from my stand are sitting I bet I woulda got none of them if I were forced to stand

I don't know about stashing one in the bushes.... i think if someone else hunted the area you would end up with out a climber..... i don't care if my hang on gets stolen b/c they are like 89 bucks but for a climber some of them are high dollar

my thought was to scout it hard find several good trees in different locations climb them way before season to clear the brush and depending on wind patterns and game movement then pick your location for that day. i will be packing my climber in once and leaving it stashed in the bushes as to not pack it in and out all the time.

[huntnnw]

thats the problem..clearing the tree of limbs! thats the cover to conceal you. U will look like a man sitting on a power pole.

[irishevox]

 

[jackmaster]

thats why you find a couple trees one to put your stand in and another to conceal you, but either way, deer and elk dont walk around lookn up in trees, with being camoed out and slow movements when the quarry isnt lookn you will be good to go

[huntnnw]

then u sir havent hunted whitetails

I have been hid in trees with limbs around me and had whitetails see fingers move! I dont look for trees to hang my stands I look for where the game is first and where I SHOULD be sitting and hang there in any tree. Go put your stand in a tamrack 20ft up and tell how that goes with a whitetail deer 

[jackmaster]

well i can say i have never hunted whitetail, only blacktail and elk, there are plenty of ways to camo out a treestand, you can tie limbs to it, or use a camo burlap, that way it dont make noise, deer are use to seeing movements up in trees, birds and squirrels and what not, i would think even with whitetail with slow movement at the right time you would be ok..... hell they show guys in treestands on those huntn shows all the time, and if its on the huntn channel then it must be ok right?