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Hello WT hunters! It has been 14 years since I have had a bow. I lost all my archery stuff and my wife’s to a thief in 2011. I never replaced it, made me sick. Now I have 2 compound bows, my wife has one, and I have 7 recurve bows. I guess you could say “I am back!” We also have land in North central WA and it has whitetails on and around it. Private on 2 sides and forest service on 2 sides.Does anyone use tree stands to hunt WT? What is your approach and setup like? When do you like to be in the stand? What is an effective way to analyze stand locations? I may try to get someLocations established after watching my trail cameras.Thanks for any advice.
Place em on travel routes between buck bedding and food sources, in and around doe bedding for the rut. Pinch points and natural funnels are a good place too. On edge habitat like where timber meets ag or different age stands of timber. Mornings evenings generally. In the stand 30 minutes before legal shooting light, climb down after last legal. All day sits can be productive during the rut or full moon cycles.
Quote from: finnman on June 07, 2025, 01:52:02 PMHello WT hunters! It has been 14 years since I have had a bow. I lost all my archery stuff and my wife’s to a thief in 2011. I never replaced it, made me sick. Now I have 2 compound bows, my wife has one, and I have 7 recurve bows. I guess you could say “I am back!” We also have land in North central WA and it has whitetails on and around it. Private on 2 sides and forest service on 2 sides.Does anyone use tree stands to hunt WT? What is your approach and setup like? When do you like to be in the stand? What is an effective way to analyze stand locations? I may try to get someLocations established after watching my trail cameras.Thanks for any advice. I thought you had posted some really good pics.If that was you,looked like you already have a good tree stand spot.Yup, Geek out on camera,where they going. Which direction leave/come from ect,ect.Maybe try to setup multiple stands. Or be prepared to move as needed. Travel patterns can change . Maybe setup where the most doe activity is,if rut hunting.Lots of possibilities.This doesn't apply to you as much.The public land archery hunter is gonna have to have those travel corridor locked in pretty well. Seems every tree stand I've ever found during archery ,always had an attractant.Not saying it's impossible, probably a bit more technical on stand location without bait.I am struggling with stand location decisions. The draw they like runs north south. The property is at the head of a large meadow that runs near Ruth south and it funnels the wind hard from the south most of the time. The property also gets steep 3/4 the way in the back, the evening drafts come hard down slope headed south. The day time wind likes going up north. Still analyzing the deer activity from the cameras and since they come from private n the south I have not pinned down where they bed or where they feed. I did get one WT doe that took a hour nap right in frontOf my camera. I deleted about 200 pictures of her sleeping.They did just thin the property eastOf me….i may try to see how this effects the travels by putting a camera 📸 n the property line on a trail. Just a lot to all take in. Thanks for all of the suggestions.
Quote from: hunter399 on June 07, 2025, 02:54:38 PMQuote from: finnman on June 07, 2025, 01:52:02 PMHello WT hunters! It has been 14 years since I have had a bow. I lost all my archery stuff and my wife’s to a thief in 2011. I never replaced it, made me sick. Now I have 2 compound bows, my wife has one, and I have 7 recurve bows. I guess you could say “I am back!” We also have land in North central WA and it has whitetails on and around it. Private on 2 sides and forest service on 2 sides.Does anyone use tree stands to hunt WT? What is your approach and setup like? When do you like to be in the stand? What is an effective way to analyze stand locations? I may try to get someLocations established after watching my trail cameras.Thanks for any advice. I thought you had posted some really good pics.If that was you,looked like you already have a good tree stand spot.Yup, Geek out on camera,where they going. Which direction leave/come from ect,ect.Maybe try to setup multiple stands. Or be prepared to move as needed. Travel patterns can change . Maybe setup where the most doe activity is,if rut hunting.Lots of possibilities.This doesn't apply to you as much.The public land archery hunter is gonna have to have those travel corridor locked in pretty well. Seems every tree stand I've ever found during archery ,always had an attractant.Not saying it's impossible, probably a bit more technical on stand location without bait.I am struggling with stand location decisions. The draw they like runs north south. The property is at the head of a large meadow that runs near Ruth south and it funnels the wind hard from the south most of the time. The property also gets steep 3/4 the way in the back, the evening drafts come hard down slope headed south. The day time wind likes going up north. Still analyzing the deer activity from the cameras and since they come from private n the south I have not pinned down where they bed or where they feed. I did get one WT doe that took a hour nap right in frontOf my camera. I deleted about 200 pictures of her sleeping.They did just thin the property eastOf me….i may try to see how this effects the travels by putting a camera 📸 n the property line on a trail. Just a lot to all take in. Thanks for all of the suggestions.