Tree Stands

[Morning Star]

I only seem hang around 7 or 8 of them anymore.  I move around a fair bit with the changing deer patterns, so my Lone Wolf Assault and sticks get a lot of use.  The ones I do hang and leave are in age old rut travel areas.

I hate that last couple days of season and having to yank all my stands.....another reason I like using the Lone Wolf.

[Ghostman]

None...I prefer to be mobile and use a LW climber

[KSdan]

Up and down every sit.  10 minutes or less.  I have one stand.  New set-up most every sit.  Virtually every encounter with a mature deer in the past 15 years has been first time on stand.  I hate to go in until I am ready to hunt it. . . mature deer know you have been there.

[Shawn Leonard]

Up until 3 years ago I maintained 102 stand sites, each ready to hunt. Some were permanent but most were a bracket hung in a tree with screw in steps or skyhook screws. My son-in-law now maintain 67 stand sites and we have done this for the last 3 years. Some of these are observation sites and we hope to narrow it down to roughly 40 over the next couple years on the 4 properties we hunt. Shawn

[Fritz]

Wow, Shawn! That is a whole lot of work.  And I thought maintaining 15 or so was hard.

[Morning Star]

Up until 3 years ago I maintained 102 stand sites, each ready to hunt. Some were permanent but most were a bracket hung in a tree with screw in steps or skyhook screws. My son-in-law now maintain 67 stand sites and we have done this for the last 3 years. Some of these are observation sites and we hope to narrow it down to roughly 40 over the next couple years on the 4 properties we hunt. Shawn  

Even 40....I can't imagine the work.  Are you outfitting?  What's the story?

[huckbuck]

Between my hunting buddy and me, fourteen.  Only half were hunted this year. Two stands are over a hundred miles from home. They were my favorite places to be during the rut. Unfortunatly I don't have permission to hunt there anymore. I think about them often and wonder about all the big buck's that have walked under them.

   :(

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by Shawn Leonard:
 most were a bracket hung in a tree with screw in steps or skyhook screws.  

I'm not familiar with this way of hanging a stand. What does it mean? Any pictures?

[BowHuntingFool]

Originally posted by Gordon martiniuk:
How many tree stands do you put up each year 3 or more?

I put up a Hundred or so on public land here in Wisconsin. I can't leave my stand up on state land overnight!

[KSdan]

I wish they would require the daily removal on ALL public lands.  Guys put up stands like they claim/own the spot. Its PUBLIC land.  It makes it difficult as I would hate to sit where another guy was coming in.  Often they are rarely touched all season though.

I think a sunset-to-sunset limit in public grounds would be great. At least you would know if a guy was serious about hunting it.

[jonsimoneau]

Between stands hung and trees prepared to hunt out of with a lone wolf assault portable, I normally have right around 40.

[Bill Carlsen]

I typically have 12-15 stands up.

[Bakes168]

One Climber, and one hang-on.

Bakes

[Walt Francis]

I maintain a dozen screaming eagles stands and keep another couple in my truck for new locations when I need to move during the season.

[JoeM]

I have a half a dozen or so up and ready to hunt ( same for my partner), some of them get tweeked during the season. I use the climber some but prefer not to.  Joe

[kojac]

4 not counting the stands you guys have set for me   :p