The first question to be answered is, where are you going to hunt (i.e. over a specific scrape, food source, whatever). Once I find the spot I'm going to hunt, I look for a tree that I can get my climber in and have a few decent shots. If there's no suitable tree, then I choose a place to construct a ground blind (I build my blinds from the materials that are there; I'm too cheap to buy one, too lazy to carry it in, and don't really care for the concept anyhow). I much prefer the tree stand, but harvested my largest buck (9 pt.) from the ground.