6sixpoint_nobrows Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 How do you choose the best place to choose a stand? Also when you find a good trail, should you stay off the trail about 10 yards, or does it matter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrud Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help I'd suggest buying "Rub-Line Secrets" by Greg Miller. I learned a TON of stuff about stand location. Can't wait to try some of them out this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest antlers21 Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help If I am near a bedding area and there is multiple stand locations I use my gut first. I have one piece near a bedding area that has good sign in many places so I choose a spot and after a few days I may move. Also ariel photos or topo maps are great for finding funnels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longislandhunter Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help I also concentrate on food sources near bedding areas early in the season. If I can I try to locate a couple of different trees near each location to compensate for the wind direction that I may run into when setting up to hunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6sixpoint_nobrows Posted April 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help alright, thanx guys keep me posted everyone...thanx a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help Probably the most important thing about a stand site is the wind direction. Always pick a stand site that will put you down wind of the trail. After that, you have other things to consider like shot lanes, available trees and distance from the trail. Personally, I like my stands to be 10 to 20 yards off the trail I'm hunting. Always watch the wind though, hunting a great spot in even marginal wind can ruin a great spot for big bucks quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckbuster11 Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help Also, keep in mind the time of day you are hunting too. Your not going to want to go crashing into a bedding area for an evening hunt. Generally, you want to be a little closer to the food source in the evening and closer to the bedding area in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6sixpoint_nobrows Posted April 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help alright ill try these tactics thanx everybody! good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hookedonhunting Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help find the food and you will find the deer. (not always) Personal favorites White Oak acorns,apples,muscadines,water oak, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born4it Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help Whenever I'm at my farm I'm scouting, no matter if I'm turkey hunting, squirrel hunting, putting up stands, or lookin for mushrooms. I keep my eyes peeled for any sign of bedding areas, rubs, scrapes, etc. in order to place my stands in the best spots. A couple other things I look for are funnels, visability, and cover. This year I'm putting a stand in a tree that's in between a food plot and a corn field where a creek makes a funnel with the woods going to and from these feeding sources and a bedding area. I'm pumped about that spot!! I usually just try to hang stands where the most is working in my favor as possible. The best way to determine stand sites is by observation though. When you hang your stands and hunt them for a year, move them for the next year if the deer are coming out of a draw by the one you're in or if they're coming into the opposite side of a field. Hope I could help! Good luck, Ryan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6sixpoint_nobrows Posted April 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help alright, yeah i do the same as you do,whenever im out there im always scouting and checking! thanx guys for the tips! good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slughunter Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help stay off the trail because with bow you can get both lungs and they dont see you as easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 Re: Stand Location. please help Since you posted this thread in the bow hunting forum I'll assume thats what you will be using when your hunting. The simple version is to place your stand where the deer want to go! To fine tune that stand site choose the downwind side of the trail they are using to get there.....After observing them arriving from a stand site that is well away from the area(observation stand). You will then have the time they get there and the normal trail they use without contaminating the area. So now you know when they are getting to the area...What next? Hit'em with a little well thought out triple SSS Stand Site Selection Notice I did not say Tree Selection...a tree may not be your best option(a vivid example is included near the end). Especially if the deer are moving alongside a ridge and the wind is moving up and over that ridge. What are you going to do...pick a tree on the ridge so you can stick out like a sore thumb? I hope not for your freezers sake A ground blind may be a much better choice in that situation than looking like your the stars and stripes on a flag pole! Another aspect is your shot angle you will have when they arrive. Will it be shooting directly downward on the deer or will it be a much more consistently lethal shot angle of shooting through their heart/lungs? Theres the why you should place your stand a decent distance away from the trail. Heres a method to find out just how much: Take the removable center out of a 3-D target. Place haybales on the other side of the target that are high enough to stop an arrow if you shoot through that area on the target. Climb a tree and see that area(the hole) on the target as where you should be shooting at. If you cant get the arrow through and into the haybales your too close to the imagenary trail it was on. I almost forgot if you cant hit the area or the target you are definitely too far away!!! Do that enough and you will get an idea of how close is close enough for your stand. If you dont believe that its important...this past year I shot a doe with a rifle from the only decent tree in the area for a stand(I'm a big guy and needed astrong tree). I hit her directly in the middle of the shoulder with a 30-30 while knowing that angle would take the bullet right through the heart. It did not....it was deflected by the shoulder blade and sent the bullet downward alongside the ribs or just inside of them and punching out a hole somewhere on the bottom of the deer. I know this because of the color of the hair at the site where the bullet entered the ground...white. I watched the hole in her shoulder open up and spurt out blood as she ran away and out of sight. I never found that deer even after a very long time looking for her that spanned 2 days. Thats just one example of what can happen from a bad shot angle...and believe me its very clear in my mind....I SHOULD HAVE MADE A GROUND BLIND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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