ORIGINAL: valor10
Never.
What's the point of going in to the woods and then cutting it down?
What's the point of camoflauging yourself and then showing every thing that walks, crawls or flys you are out there hacking down the cover?
What's the point of looking for a good concealment point and then cutting down the concealment?
What's the point of keeping your mouth shut aboutyour hunting spot you've worked hard to find and then showing every one who walks with in a 100 feet what you've found?
Look like nothing, smell like nothing, sound like nothing, kill like a ton of bricks falling out of the clear blue sky. That's my policy.
Point is, having viable shooting lanes to get get a shot off that won't be deflected. If you got BIG woods, or field surrounding your woods, maybe it's not big deal. For those of us that hunt in thicket, or thick woods, clearing shootinglanes and pathsis smart, and essential. I try to get all my cuting done by the 1st of August. Most of it I do in Febuary or March, but once everything turns green, I always find something in my way, especially 20 feet up a tree. Not everybody has the same hunting terrain, your comments are irresponsibe, and take nothing of others situations into consideration. Doesn't do me much good to find a honey hole, then not have a shot over 10 yards at anything. Make sense to you?
I hunt thickets as thick as there is.
There's a good reason why the deer are using those, when they are using them. It's not because you have cut it all down.
No, going to the thickest stuff you can find because that's where the deer are and then standing in a place you have to cut it down to shoot doesn't make a whit of sense to me.
I hunt them. I never do it. Any one I take hunting with me that does it on a stand I put them on, will never go with me again.
Just because you say it's smart and essential doesn't make it so. That much is pretty obvious because I don't do it. There's not a single thing about my not doing it or recomending against it that is irresponsible. You just can't think of any logical support for your position and want to blow off.
If you want to do it. Then do it.
They ask. I don't do it. I don't recomend it. I said as much. Nothing at all irresponsible about logic. Ya should try it some time.
YOU are the one who is suppose to be taking the terrain in to consideration when you choose a spot, NOT ME. I didn't tell you to put your tree stand right behind another tree. LOL. How could I take your spot's terrain in to consideration? You going to send me pictures and pay for my expert opinion and suggested stand placement?