Two Beards

I always paint/repaint our stands, ladders, climbing sticks and
other accessories every summer. I've used various 'flat'
spray paints with good success, but prefer the 'textured paints
used on outdoor furniture. Main colors are black, dark brown,
grey and a couple of shades of green.

I also use synthetic leaves/limbs on all of our setups that are
in the 'open' and/or are on trees that drop their leaves early.
I use camo duct tape to tape them to the stand and on the
tree. This has really helped some of our setups.

It's a lot of work painting 25+ stands, 18 ladders, 5 sets of Lone
Wolf climbing sticks, and all the padlocks & chains, however I
definitely think it's worth the extra effort.

I'm not sure how much the 'camo' paint helps with the deer, but
it sure makes are stands and ladders tough to see with humans!







If you look closely, you can see the chains for our Chippewa
treestands hanging on the fence...I even paint them.


This is the stand I shot my buck out of this past fall. This picture was
taken last March after I "prepped" the tree. It was a locust tree and
I knew I could get "skylined" pretty easily, because leaf drop would
occur early and the several deer runs I was covering were all below
me (I always take pictures when preparing trees so I know how it will
look from where the deer are standing). I decided to put up a few
fake branches when I hung the stand in August....the rest is history.


This is how everything looked this fall.

CLOUD 9, MN

I paint all my stands in a "Predator camo" pattern. I paint it all light grey and then put black and brown branch type streaks. ( it sounds funny but the key is the light grey) Then I buy "Sneeky Leaf" fake leaves and put 6 to 10 on it. My stands are 18 to 22 ft up and you DON'T NOTICE THEM AT ALL....there very hard to see!

Good Luck!

CLOUD 9, MN

I mentioned how important light grey was.....look at the photo above my first post.......picture some light grey streaks and spots.......it totally turns into the sky!

Later!

Sniper151

I spray my stand with a camo that matches the terrain. I then use limbs I cut while clearing my shooting lanes and use the bungie cords that hold the climber in place when packing to hold the foliage under the stand for added cover.

liquidorange

i like to use the dollar store 15 foot roll of pine garland. its easy to break up into small sections to wrap around the different parts of a tree stand. i also love to cover my ladder stands like 80% with flat tan spray paint. it vanishes in the woods. just pick up a branch and spray through it onto the stand. use several different sizes to add variety. i will never use green brown or much black again. charcoal gray maybe. if you put the stand up early in the season the game will get use to it camo or not. if you sit still with 3-d leafy camo on youll be in good shape. even when they look right at you as long as you dont move and they dont smell you you should be o.k.knowing when to draw when they are close and not looking or head down is what seperates the boys from the men and filling the freezer

nubo

Muzzyman ! Yes I was talking about you .but I wasn't 100% sure ,but I knew once you read this you'd reply .I'm going to try exactly what you've done with your stand because it look's excellent ,so if you have any tip's for me I'd appreciate it if you could ,such as sanding ,screening and painting .I want to know exactly what you did to prep your stand .Please e-mail me .

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Two Beard's your stand's look pretty awsome as well ,pretty hard to see in the tree's .

nubo

Allegiance05

One thing you could try is Camo Clad. I have not tried it myself but I am going to try it on my stand this year.

MO_Bowhnter

All your stands look great. How long does it take to do a complete paint job with the fine details such as muzzy's?