Trees

Hunting Man · #1 (**permalink**) 07-23-2008, 08:15 PM

Things are a bit slow so how about tree preference. I prefer to find a good pine/hemlock as it gives me good back cover and I crush the needles for added scent cover. Getting my 16' ladder into them is pretty easy and I use the cutoffs to camo in with. I'm known to really cover up my stand alowing about 3 shooting holes. I also stick a few pine branches in the rungs to cover it in. Extreem?

joel the signman · #2 (**permalink**) 07-23-2008, 10:31 PM

ill climb anything thats alive and in a good spot,i aint picky.

WHITETAILFEVER · #3 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 05:37 AM

I'm A Ground Person Do To A Close Call Years Ago But If I Were To Pick A Tree I Would Go With A Pine Or A Good Ceder Where There Is Alot Of Cover.if There Is No Good Tree I'll Nestle A Portble Ground Blind Into A Or Next To Some Brush.

BruceBruce1959 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 06:29 AM

I'll use whatever is ideal to climb with my climber,
something where I don't have to cut many or any limbs if possible.
Oaks and Beechnut trees work fairly well.

flexj · #5 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 11:19 AM

I usually find myself in an oak tree. Oaks and Red Cedars are the only trees that get big enough really around here, and the Cedar trees are a little too sappy for me. I've tried it before but it is kinda like that christmas vacation movie...little sappy in here...

buckfever · #6 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 12:22 PM

I like how bruce said it. Anything my climber will go up with not alot of work. I do look for trees with a thicker bark though. I feel safer when my stand kinda digs into the tree.

BruceBruce1959 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by buckfever

I like how bruce said it. Anything my climber will go up with not alot of work. I do look for trees with a thicker bark though. I feel safer when my stand kinda digs into the tree.

LOL,, at 225 lbs. I'm pretty sure the teeth on my climber are biting pretty good.

muleskinner · #8 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 02:07 PM

I'm more picky about size than variety. The tree has to be big enough to break up my out line. It always amazes me how hard it is to find the right tree in a forest of trees

#9 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 02:19 PM

yeah, one would think it would be easy. I'll think on it for an 1/2 hr before I decide to climb that one.

Hunting Man · #10 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 03:35 PM

ronn I would think it take that long to put your oxygen mask on aren't you at cloud level?