HOW
TO PICK A STAND SITE
Green-Field Stand Sites
EDITOR’S NOTE: You can’t bag a buck if
you don’t see the animal. The key to seeing more
bucks on every hunt is knowing how to choose the most-productive
stand sites. Many hunters choose their stand sites using
too little information.
The most-obvious green-field stand site is on or near
a trail that comes from the woods to the green field.
The best time to hunt this stand is late in the afternoon
when the deer are coming to the green field to feed.
Since many hunters know that information, most of them
hunt there. The second-best stand site in a green field
will be 50- to 100-yards down the trail that leads to
the green field where you find some type of browse the
deer can feed on before
they enter the green field. Usually, many green field
hunters already will have found this location. Instead,
go past this point further down the trail to where you
find two or three other trails intersecting the main
trail leading to the green field. All the deer that
use a particular trail to enter a green field don’t
stay on that trail all the time. They generally come
from other trails and other regions to reach that main
trail entering the green field. More-experienced deer
hunters will look for those trail heads - often 200-
to 400-yards away from the
green field - where several trails come together on
the main trail leading to the green field. Near that
intersection of trails is where I prefer to place my
tree stand. I want to go to that stand site in the middle
of the day.
Most other hunters will take a stand about l: 30 or
2:00 p.m. after lunch on the edge of the green field
or 100-yards down the main trail where the bucks stage
before they enter the green field. If any bucks are
in the green field in the middle of the day when these
hunters go to their stands, more than likely they will
spook those deer out of the field and down the trail
where I am sitting. By hunting well behind the other
hunters who are taking stands on the edges of the green
field or down the main trail leading to the green field,
I make sure I see the bucks that may be coming to the
green field before the other hunters
do. Also, by being further away from the green field,
the chances of seeing a buck in the woods before dark
are much better than if I am hunting closer to the green
field.
To learn more about Bo Pitman and his expert hunting
tactics, you can purchase John E. Phillips’ book,
“How to Take Monster Bucks – Secrets to
Finding Trophy Deer”. To learn more about this
book, go to http://www.nighthawkpublications.com/hunting/hunting.htm.
You can send a check or a money order to Night Hawk
Publications, 4112 Camp Horner Road, Birmingham, Alabama
35243, or use the PayPal address nighthawkpub@mindspring.com.
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