I hunt in pines trees lots, in fact it as darn near the only time I choose tree over ground. I limb out the tree up to my stand height only on the climb in and shooting lane side and leave the back and top untouched. Pines I prefer to side saddling up the tree and this eliminates the work in limbing out a bunch of extras and keeping good backing cover. I have mostly small triangle style stands, like Lone Wolf and Rivers Edge. If you do it now or even July the deer won' t re-route coming fall.

The other option would be hunt from the ground.

However I have limbed and hung a stand, then sat in the same day and turned out fine. If you due well before season then it will be even better. I would suggest locking your stand on if public can find it and remove the steps...just in case[:@]