ladderstands are gr8...if you want to buy about 30 of them and go to all of the work of lugging them out and setting them up...you should zip strip evergreens to the ladder rails and brush them in though...too many people just put them out and they look like hell just sitting there. Yea..sure deer get used to them..but how about the big buck cruising through the woods in the rut and sees one not blended in? A handful of zipstrips and some limbs and brush attached is the way to do it imo.
But the way to do it is to Get a hangon, sticks, a linesmans belt, and it is a safe way to hunt, and the way to be a deer killing machine.