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when to hang a stand

Rob Ots

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Hey I have a question about a situation me and my buddy are always in. We have permission to hunt a farm owned by his uncle but it is pretty far away from were we live. The area we hunt is pretty much all bedding and staging areas. My question is, what is the best method to slip in and put up a treestand without disturbing the bedded deer? We usually arrive around midday and hunt there for a week. Should we wait until the next morning or put up our stands as soon as we get there? Also, we use climbers but will sometimes use them as lock ons. We have trees with spikes already in them and other trees with enough branches to climb pretty high.
 
We have hung stands in bedding areas as soon as deer head off to feed for the night and as late as 2:00am trying to beat a buck back to bed. It's all a gamble that can sometime pay off huge. If its a row crop farm. Attempt to bump deer out of the area with his uncles truck. A tractor. Anything that they are used to being bumped out of a bedding area by. We ha've deer on one farm that are son used to the sound of the farmers truck that they will just lay there. If you tried to sneak in there on foot they would be in the next county
 
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