when to hang

how long before the opener do you hang your stand

 

A lot of guys leave their stands up year around, but I like to take then down after season and do a little maintenance and keep them in good shape, then put them back up about 3 months before season.

 

I start in July and hang one or two a week until I'm done. This includes trimming lanes and mounting bow/accessory hooks. I have 6 different sets on the ranch this year and just finished my last set four days ago. Our opener is September 17, so I think this gives me plenty of time.

On a side note, with how hot it's been here the last two years I'm going to consider putting out my stands for 2013 in may and June when it's a little cooler.

 

I know most that have private property that leave stands up have already done so this season. Most I hear tend to do it in July but I wasn't able to get mine out. Hoping to get them out next week if possible.

 

All year round.

 

I just moved mine on sunday. Season opens sept. 29 figured it was a good time to move it. Give the area alittle over a month to calm down.

 

I leave mine out year round, but I usually add some each year. I try to get them out by end of July for an opener around the 1st of October. I have a couple of new properties this year so I haven't finish yet but hopefully I will be done this weekend.

 

Well I have only ever used hang-ons and I often even will leave it in the woods on the tree that I am planing to hunt next time out. That said, I wouldn't really advise it - I have a long walk back to my truck and I just don't want to carry it in and out of the woods each hunt.

I just ordered a new hang-on and will be hanging it next Friday and will probably take it down sometime in January. Don't plan on leaving it up year-round, no reason for me to do that!

 

Before we sold our property we always left them out year round. Checked straps every year and changed them almost every other. This year, since its not our property, I put mine up about 3 weeks ago and will take it down sometime in January. I also take my climber out during the first week and leave it in the tree I want it in unless I decide to try somewhere else out.

 

Cooler weather setting in this weekend so I'll be hanging stands. I usually have them all up by Labor Day for 1 Oct opener.

 

I usually try to have them out at least a month prior....I have one stand out so far with several to go. My season opens Sept. 8th so needless to say I am behind....

 

In July.

 

I try to hang them all before September because I don't want to intrude on the property until opening day unless I'm pulling camera's. This will give the deer at least a month to get used to the stands.

 

I like to put mine out at least 30 days before I plan to hunt them, but I have hung stands the night before and still had deer come by me due to using proper scent control.

 

I hang them early spring when I found the area that the deer were using during the previous year. Then I go in when all the trees just filled out cut my shooting lanes.

 

The sooner the better - I have a few rut spots that I know produce. I trim and hang in July/August. Then we don't head back until late October.

 

I have two stands that I'll hang before the season. One is chained up all year, the other will hopefully go up this afternoon.

50% of the time, I hang my LW as I hunt & take it down when I leave.

 

My opening AM stand has been hung in the tree since March. Cleared some shooting lanes, weed-wacked and rounded-up an entrance/exit path to an area that I have never hunted on the property. Have not been back to that particular area on the property since. I have a strong belief based on the topo maps, food available and bedding areas that this stand will produce based on that scouting. I have no cameras even on that property to verify that deer are even there. If the wind has anything with an East in it I will be hunting somewhere else, though!!!

My afternoon stand will be hung when I go in. Again, the wind will direct where I hunt. I find that my first sits in a stand are my most productive so I move around quite often as I rarely will sit a stand more than twice in a season. It is a lot of work to set-up and break-down all of those different stands, but we bowhunters only hunt for 3 months out of the year and I would rather put in a little work for my tagged animals. I used to hunt out of the same stands year after year and my success rate was OK, but not on mature bucks/does. They are a different bred of animal that is easily educated by us hunters!