I'm sure there are many answers to this depending on many variables.
What do you find most important is deciding where to set up shop? What is top on your list, wind direction, food source, undetected access, recent sign, terrain, past good luck in a spot etc. Just curious what some of us use as critical criteria in stand selection.
I used to be a "recent sign" type of guy. The past couple of years have taught me a different way of thinking. I now am a confirmed hunter of funnels, so my top criteria is terrain. The tighter the bottleneck the better I like it. My creek bottom stand, that I took Splitter out of this year, is all a guy could want in a funnel. At one point the deer have to funnel through an area that is only eight foot wide between a high sided creek and a small bog. Thirty yards after going through that funnel, if traveling north, as most deer there do, they must pass within twenty yards or less of my box stand. The icing on the cake is that this stand is very easy to access undetected and most days the wind is good for this stand as it if facing west.
What is your top criteria?
What do you find most important is deciding where to set up shop? What is top on your list, wind direction, food source, undetected access, recent sign, terrain, past good luck in a spot etc. Just curious what some of us use as critical criteria in stand selection.
I used to be a "recent sign" type of guy. The past couple of years have taught me a different way of thinking. I now am a confirmed hunter of funnels, so my top criteria is terrain. The tighter the bottleneck the better I like it. My creek bottom stand, that I took Splitter out of this year, is all a guy could want in a funnel. At one point the deer have to funnel through an area that is only eight foot wide between a high sided creek and a small bog. Thirty yards after going through that funnel, if traveling north, as most deer there do, they must pass within twenty yards or less of my box stand. The icing on the cake is that this stand is very easy to access undetected and most days the wind is good for this stand as it if facing west.
What is your top criteria?