Tree Trimming
- Quest1001
- Posts: 382
- Joined: Sat May 04, 2019 12:21 pm
- Status: Offline
Tree Trimming
When selecting your tree close to bedding, are you looking for a tree that doesn’t need trimming or are you bringing in a saw to cut away branches?
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 707
- Joined: Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:00 pm
- Status: Offline
Re: Tree Trimming
We cant trim on public. But id tried to trim private a couple times only to sit a different nearby tree that day due to a slight wind variance. Anymore I just pick a couple trees that'll work in that spot.
- Jonny
- 500 Club
- Posts: 5753
- Joined: Wed Oct 19, 2016 3:11 am
- Location: In a van down by the river
- Status: Offline
Re: Tree Trimming
No point of sitting in a tree if you can’t make the shot. Sometimes you only have one tree that will work and you just gotta make it work and do what you gotta do.
You have a monkey Mr. Munson?
- Dewey
- Moderator
- Posts: 36725
- Joined: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:57 pm
- Location: Wisconsin
- Status: Offline
Re: Tree Trimming
I use the available cover to my advantage. Sometimes it limits my shots but that’s just part of the game. Trimming the heck out of trees is what gets guys spotted much more often by deer not to mention all the other hunters they attract. Pretty easy to spot trees like that from a mile away.
- cspot
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1307
- Joined: Thu Dec 13, 2018 1:13 pm
- Location: Western PA
- Status: Offline
Re: Tree Trimming
On private if I am going to trim branches, I prefer to do it in Spring way before season. The older I get the less I find the need to trim branches.
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 506
- Joined: Wed Jan 18, 2017 6:42 am
- Location: CNY
- Status: Offline
Re: Tree Trimming
On the private land I hunt, I'm always trimming trees. My pole saw has seen a lot of miles. I try to do the most or my trimming in spring. The closer to fall you trim, the more the deer are going to notice the disturbance.
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 523
- Joined: Sun May 14, 2017 2:10 am
- Location: Missouri
- Status: Offline
Re: Tree Trimming
I trim permanent sets, here at home, sometime before the end of July. In Missouri we can't trim on public.
- DaveT1963
- 500 Club
- Posts: 5196
- Joined: Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:27 am
- Location: South
- Status: Offline
Re: Tree Trimming
Not everyone has those limbless 30 foot high tree trunks to hunt from. If you don't trim in a lot of places I hunt the canopy will be 6-8 foot above ground in early season - good luck with that. The key is selective trimming - just enough to place an arrow through. Done right, the deer do not notice it.
Rumble Channel: https://rumble.com/user/DaveT1963
You Tube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/davetoms63
Journal: https://www.thehuntingbeast.com/viewtop ... 91&t=30244
Tethrd Pro Staff
You Tube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/davetoms63
Journal: https://www.thehuntingbeast.com/viewtop ... 91&t=30244
Tethrd Pro Staff
-
- Posts: 376
- Joined: Sun May 12, 2013 7:55 am
- Status: Offline
Re: Tree Trimming
Dewey wrote:I use the available cover to my advantage. Sometimes it limits my shots but that’s just part of the game. Trimming the heck out of trees is what gets guys spotted much more often by deer not to mention all the other hunters they attract. Pretty easy to spot trees like that from a mile away.
This, I don't trim because I am on public. Even if I could I would not for this very reason
-
- Advertisement