Thanks guys. I actually don't own a tree stand, all the deer I have ever shot have been from ground blinds I made out of branches etc. or while just out walking around. I have got at least one deer a year for the last twelve years or so.
All the ones we shot when I was a kid were from the ground too but that was in ND and they were mostly does because we could get so many doe tags. I would have to ask my brother if it is still this way but as kids in ND when you shot one you turned in your tag and they gave you another one for five dollars and you could do that all season long and you could have five tags in your possession at one time. It wasn't really hunting it was just killing for our families meat supply. I can remember years where we would process up to ten at a time. It generally went something like: drive to a tree row, brother and I would walk through the trees and my Dad and uncle would walk outside the tree row on opposite sides of it and shoot everything that ran out until they had shot ten, drive the truck around and pick up all the deer, go home and spend the next two days butchering them all up. Deer hunting didn't start being fun for me until I was an adult after I got out of the Marines, before that it just meant a lot of work. I guess there is worse work you could grow up doing
