Thick pine trees

I was going to see if anyone had any tips on hunting in thick pine trees. Seems like they're always full of bushes and honeysuckle vines can't see 10 foot.

edges would me my idea

go up, up, up.

Worth the watch. This guy is entertaining. All the shooting starts at about 1:20. It's even got slo mo for you.

The Stick Trick

I may have to hoop me a log over in some pines and give this a try!

It depends on the age of the trees. If its a plantation and the trees are too small to climb, I like to still hunt them. They bed in them and on windy drizzly days you can walk thru them and actually walk up on a group of deer bedded together. I carry a shotgun with buckshot when I try this.

I don't think you are on the same page as to THICK pines. We have 400 acres worth that are so thick you can't walk thru them at all, I've tried. It's bad enough that I shot a doe with a bow this year and she went 40 yards, it took me 20 minutes to get in there and over an hour to get her out.

Our were planted in 06 and haven't been thinned or burned yet

If there is an interior road through the pines or on the edge of the block of the pine thicket then hunt the road (if your talking about gun hunting). The deer are going in and out of the pine thicket somewhere, you will just have to burn some boot leather to find out where. good luck!

Sometimes you can climb and see into them, sometimes a ground blind and see under/through them. Either way set up on the down wind side where you can see as many trails as possible. Bucks will work that side and scent check the whole thicket for does. As always, watch how you enter and exit your stand.