Ambush is the key tactic in my experience. I hunt public land in East. I rarely use a tree stand; I hate lugging them into the woods. Got set a good groundspot and be motionless. I like it one the so-called successful hunters tell me that they are going to be stalking deer in the woods. They are going to push the deer to me, and all they'll see -- at best -- is the waving back and forth of a whitetail.