RE: Best Learned Lessons...
Always go slow and ready to your stand like mentioned before. I have killed 2 nice bucks while sneaking back to my stand and catching movement. When you do get to your stand climb very slowly and slowly look around as you climb. On afternoon I climed my stand in a hurry to get hunting and stood up only to see three, yes count them three kansas monsters practically laughing at me as my jaw droped. Well as you can imaginethe next image I saw was three brown butt holes making a mad dash in the oppisite direction. Looked like bouncing milk duds trotting thru the crp field.