Tree Stands for Blacktails?

I keep hearing more and more about guys using tree stands to hunt blacktails, although I don't personally know anybody who uses one. Given the "wandering" nature of blacktails I have a hard time trying to picture where I would put up a stand with a reasonable expectation that a buck would happen by on a very consistant basis. I'm thinking more along the lines of bowhunting, but rifle hunting too.

Has anybody here used one? If so what is your stratagy for placing a tree stand? Thanks.

Eel

Steve, you getting soft on us. Get your abalone card and go rock pick some snails. You'll get better.

Jim, I've never done that. Sure do love to eat them though. How about you? The best tide of the year last week.

Steve

EEL..I set up 3 when I plan to bow hunt in that year..
In all 3 areas I killed bucks with a bow..and could have shot many bears...however that Monster Blackie never been close enough .One spot all I seen was 3x3's and taken 2 there.
two others... the 1st was access to a grain field though a creek and I seen 7 brutes walking 7 inches deep in this creek under a bridge to avoid being seen and I climbed old oak a with a 2x4 straddled between branches for a set but that day a smaller 3x3 was all I saw and and took him.... the other is a narrow steep draw that leads to a basin that only a few know about and those who do only bow hunt it because we want it to always produce and is an 3x3 or better area among friends and some very nice bucks get taken their ever year but its been 5 years since I hunted there and there is so may bear and cats that you camp and hunt alone and last time I spoken with my friend they spent last two years setting on it and cleaning it up and redoing a few stands....I think it may actually be private property...ha ha!
(another reason for the bow and all day hike).
but yes I like tree stands til I have to pee and never heard of anyone taken a dump in a tree stand...what was your question again?
rackmaster

Oh I see....for starter been a dry year water seems like good idea.. natural corridors ...Ive even seen some nice bucks on the other side of the river ever year(again privite property)on the steep chit for months because they can't be sneaked up on... even to set up in a stand......I will try one day!)
I set up a stand or two and plan to hunt it then remove and bring home unless its premant and no logging going on.... I heard what tree huggers do to a tree..I can't use a climber any more so I use steps or a ladder use my quad to help or carry it all in in a few spots. I never had a tree stand set up to where I could not have taken at lease a forker...maybe I just have good spots.. never hunted with a rifle from a tree stand.
rm

It's true that Blacktails tend to "wander" more than other spp, but you'll still catch some big boys doing a daily routine of sorts. Guys kill big blacktails every year out of tree stands. For some folks it's the only way they hunt. I cant stand it, however. lol. I've gotta go the spot and stalk route. I see a heck of a lot more deer that way, and it's just the way I prefer to hunt. Little more control over the situation w/ spot and stalk.

weavervillain, that's kind of the way I look at it too. Although there are a couple places right in Weaverville I would like to put up a tree stand. LOL It seems like everytime I drive through there I see bucks in town. I used to visit when I was gold panning, and the company I work for owns Trinity River Lumber.

JACK, thanks for the ideas. You got me to thinking.......

Steve

LOL. I've been practicing in my backyard and had 140" bucks walk by at 15 yds during archery season. LOL. Couple guys got nailed last year for "giving into the temptation." LOL. Those big guys know where to hang (at least most of the time. LOL).

Been hitting the woods a little harder the last few weeks, and if you're seriously thinking about trying stand hunting it might be a good year to do it. A lotta the smaller streams are already starting to dry up, and it's only June. I'm scouting a couple spots for some friends of mine to hunt(I think they have a better chance at killing a big buck out of a well placed stand than trying to kill one spot and stalk). Those two spots are already getting hammered. Hoping that's still the case when August 18th rolls around.

Tree stands are excellent for blacktails.

I have had great success with tree stands in my area in n cal, so have the rest of my crew.