I have about 30-40 stands,they are all made out of wood and they still have the bark on them.I hunt off logs and in brush piles or tall weeds even hunted on the side of a creek bed once 2moro im be hunting on a grass hill I am having a blast trying to fool these deer on the ground,this has been my most amazing year havent been winded yet and some days the wind is blowing right in there face I guess it must be the pine branches I cut off the tree in the back yard and stuck them in the washer with my hunting clothes heck they must think im a pine tree.