What would you guys consider the best approach to bowhunt several acres of standing pines, some are 4 feet tall some are 8 and some are little older and taller- what would the food source be here - just looking for some thoughts and ideas

No food source .....if that's all that's there.

I'm guessing.....if there's deer on that property at SOME time in the day......they're simply using it as a travel corridor. You're gonna need to find their trails....through scouting.....and find WHY they're using it (i.e. where they're headed TO)

There might not be a sustainable food source. The deer may well be finding some legumes, fennel and other browse up under the new pines.

The deer are likely using it as a travel route or as a place to lay up during the day. Could also be using it as a staging area before moving into a field or pines. You just gotta look at the big picture. Where are the deer going? What are they doing in the pines? Where are they coming from? What else is around that a deer needs?

As to the best way to bow hunt it: You are either going to have to get high or get low. That means a treestand on the fringe of it, or a ground blind in among the thick stuff. If you were rifle hunting, a tripod stand would be a good bet, but you will stand out right much (think of yourself as a flag marking the hole in the middle of the green), and you will likely get busted.

I would look to the ground blind idea. Pay attention to the wind, and try to find out exactly why the deer are there. If you can find where they are entering or exiting those pines, that might be a better spot.

Personally, I would still hunt it on days where the weather is pretty crappy. Move into the wind and go as slowly as you can and keep your eyes peeled. Look ahead and down, under the branches of the trees. A lot of times deer will hole up underneath some of those pines to get out of the wind and weather.

Yep, IF it's simply a pass-thru area: 1.Where are they going
2.Where are they coming from
3. Why?

What you're describing sounds almost like some type of tree farm. And if that's the case, most of the time the trees get absolutely demolished by bucks and the 'farmers' want the deer GONE. With the trees sometimes being fairly close together and low to the ground it provides great cover for deer. I've seen some places where the deer are thick as rabbits, it almost becomes a job to thin them out.

Sounds just like a couple areas that I hunt. They are bedding areas around here. A ladder stand on one of the bigger trees will make you vanish. I have never been spotted out of a ladder stand in a pine. I have literally had deer sniffing the ladder rungs while I am sitting in it and they just never see me. I love hunting out of pine trees for that reason.

Like was said, find the main travel routes in/through the pines and set up with shots to as many trails and/or intersections as possible always keeping the wind in mind. If it is anything like around here, the deer will hang up in there a lot and come the rut the does will dive in there during the day and have the bucks chase them in circles through it throughout the daylight. Areas like that can be very productive if hunted properly.