Well spoken Ranger. I'm like you in that I practice holding my Excal in all directions before hunting situations so I know my crossbowslimitations. In fact, it helped me decide on a particular portable fixed stand before I bought one. I noticed my main complaint with any crossbow hunting from a portable stand was trying to shoot around a tree trunk while 20 feet in the air. The fixed portable stand I bought puts me roughly 40" away from the tree trunk and I can almost shoot from either side of it or at least close enoughwithout the limbs hitting it.