ORIGINAL: Jasonlester
You can put your stand on the edge or in a spot with little background cover if you want but the deal is you better be motionless.... The reason deer see us is we end up moving thinking they are not around. If you have trees behind you you are better off because instead of seeing your whole body move or your arm or leg they get a broken veiw of the movement and may think it was a squirell of bird.
I agree wholeheartedly with the statement above! We have one stand location which is hung on astraight tree trunk withan angled trunk making a perfect setup with our outline broken up from all directions. We have been using this stand location for three years now and the deer never pick us up because you are concealed when in the stand.