How Long Prior to Opener do You Set Stands?
09-25-2006, 06:59 AM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2004
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RE: How Long Prior to Opener do You Set Stands?
I just hung the last one yesterday (Sept24) and season starts on 30th. The early season is super slow and sometimes I will even trim lanes and such on the first day if it is too warm. My Dad doesn't even really hunt much until about two weeks into the season. I wish they would start the season two weeks later. In my youth I have hung a stand in the morning darkness the day of a hunt. My Dad used to carry his Griz ladder in for every hunt. That was work!
09-25-2006, 07:47 AM
#17
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: How Long Prior to Opener do You Set Stands?
I would "think" that it wouldn't make that big of a difference, but I'm still kinda new to all of this. There are guys who kill deer ALL THE TIME from stands they climbed up a tree in THAT DAY. I try not to be careless.....but I'm not over the top, either. I had my stands set 2-3 weeks prior to the season......but I went, just yesterday, and hung one more. Clarification, though......I knew it was raining when I went in there.....and I knew it would likely wash my scent out. I wasn't disappointed. We got a gulley washer, last night.
Jeff
Jeff
09-25-2006, 08:46 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Almost Heaven. Boone Co. WV
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RE: How Long Prior to Opener do You Set Stands?
Our season comes in Mid Oct. and I typically like to get all of mine up by mid Sept...one month early. This year however I am a little behind schedule because I am hanging more stands. I have 2 up and ready to go, but I have 2-3 more that I need to hang.Hopefuly, Iwill het everything done this coming weekend.
09-25-2006, 08:54 AM
#19
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: How Long Prior to Opener do You Set Stands?
Here in Pa our opener is always when the Saturday falls end of Sept or beginning of Oct. I always try to have all of my stands hung and trails cleared by the end of August and no later than Labor Day weekend.
09-25-2006, 09:02 AM
#20
Nontypical Buck
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RE: How Long Prior to Opener do You Set Stands?
On my property I just set stands up this weekend and season starts in two weeks. I will set up more over the next week and as the season progresses. I usually start low on the mountain and then work my way up as the season progresses. I don't cut lanes. I may take a branch out here or there but I usually try to minimize impact. At another area I hunt my friend used to cut shooting lanes in the thick stuff but we found that the deer were going around the lanes. Now he either zig-zags the lanes so they justlook like small openings to deer crossing them, or use none at all. I also often just move to trees for a single hunt when I need to change strategies or hunting a new area or one I don't go to often. Again, no shooting lanes.