Originally Posted by Oldtimr

I disagree, pines can be a good place to hunt if it is snowing and or blowing. The property I hunt has a big stand of mature pines and while there is little food there is great shelter and it really harbors the deer. The minute you enter those pines you can feel the temperature is several degrees warmer and hardly any wind. When the deer from surrounding properties get moved around they head for the pines on the property I am on and stay there. We have taken a lot of deer from that stand of pines