Thanks for the replys guys - It was one of the best seasons for me in a lot of years.
We put up the stand at the end of bow season, when it seemed that thedeer would like to enter this corn plot from the downhill overgrown apple orchard, we didn't trim anything out in from of the stand, and didn't really need to fro shots under 100yds. The "Y" branch didn't bother me at all, it was no trouble at all to shoot around if need be. 3 deer were taken from this stand this season. However - the upper left corner was tough, any deer that came out was obscurred by limbs, if they cam to the corn you were OK - but if they just fed on the Turnips/Rapeseed - then you had no shot.
FH