Stand Savvy: Tips for buying the best deer-hunting stands

You could tack a few 2x4s to a tree, or you could step into the 21st century of deer hunting by buying a modern stand. Here’s all you need to know.

My very first tree stand was an assorted collection of scrap wood from my dad’s shop nailed to a very forked tree overlooking a single scrape.

Each board was nailed with precise care at the exact location that would advance me up the tree through the maze of limbs to the “platform” seat I had nailed at an awkward angle across the flattest limb I could find.

That tree eventually accepted its puncture wounds and claimed the wooden steps as its own. And up until the time that it fell victim to the loggers clear-cutting this property a few years ago, my first stand stood as a testimony to my youthful determination to deer hunt.Click here to read more on Stand Savvy: Tips for buying the best deer-hunting stands