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Tree Stand Time

Postby Swede » 06 09, 2017 •  [Post 1]

How much time or what percent of your elk hunting time do you plan on spending in a tree stand this season?

I really want to spent almost all of my elk hunting time in my Millennium M100, unless Stringunner wants me in his M150 for a test run. Ideally I would put a week in a stand in Oregon and shoot a critter, then go to Idaho and spend a while in one there and get one to fill another tag. The Lord knows how these things will really go. He never gives me a preview so every day is a new adventure. I don't know if you have figured this out, but I actually enjoy tree stand hunting. I hear people say all kinds of things about sitting and waiting in a tree, but for me it does not get better.
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Re: Tree Stand Time

Postby Elkhunttoo » 06 09, 2017 •  [Post 2]

I don't know how much time I will get (not enough) this year. I think I will be changing jobs in the next few months so it could be a very different hunting season then I was planning on. My normal day if I am in the woods for the hole day is run and gun in the morning and then sit water holes in the afternoon... this year I will hopefully be ground blinding in two different areas. Now it's just a matter of getting time off to hunt.
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Re: Tree Stand Time

Postby stringunner » 06 14, 2017 •  [Post 3]

If I get to hunt this year, it will be the first week of the season and so I plan now that 100% of it will be in a tree stand. Unless there is a herd or herds running around calling then I will try and run and gun those. It doesn't happen often first week or anytime where we hunt but when it does it can be fun. Otherwise treestands for me.
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Re: Tree Stand Time

Postby Tigger » 06 27, 2017 •  [Post 4]

Sorry boys, my answer is 0. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Not a moment. I hunt deer from tree stands, the last thing I want to do is go out west and hunt in one.

Having said that, I will spend a lot of time in a tree stand this year and hopefully kill another nice whitetail buck from one. Last year it was a 128" 4X4.
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Re: Tree Stand Time

Postby Swede » 06 27, 2017 •  [Post 5]

Tigger it is interesting that you deer hunt from a stand and hunt on the ground for elk. I do the exact opposite. Of coarse I don't hunt Whitetails. I will go after Mulies or Blacktails. I might shoot a mulie from my stand if one wanders by, or I could find a good tree stand location for Blacktails, but haven't gone up a tree much for one.
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Re: Tree Stand Time

Postby Tigger » 06 27, 2017 •  [Post 6]

Yeah, we are kinda opposites, eh? I shot this 5X5 a couple years ago out of my main stand location.

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Re: Tree Stand Time

Postby Swede » 06 27, 2017 •  [Post 7]

Minnesota used to have at least one fine buck. Hopefully there are some more to chase there.
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