How high is too high?
07-12-2005, 08:02 PM
#13
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Lehigh County PA USA
Posts: 12,157
RE: How high is too high?
There is such a thing as too high. Depending on terrain, you can get to a height to where the angles get "worse", or more severe, with each inch you climb.
07-12-2005, 09:50 PM
#16
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Illinois
Posts: 950
RE: How high is too high?
I prefer to climb 20-25ft most of the time. However, depending on terrain, foliage (early fall), or saplings and low limbs, I'll vary my height to where I think I can get a good shot. (For those of you that will bash me for not clearing lanes, I do clear lanes on my favored sites but I do a lot of "pop-up" hunting with my climber so clearing lanes isn't always an option)
07-13-2005, 01:43 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 3,903
RE: How high is too high?
Actually I think Zak summed it up rather well.
The higher up you are , and the closer to the tree the deer is , the less likely you are to get a double lunger. You can always do the spine shot , but thats not my cup of tea.
When I was a wee lad I found out the hard way that if your hunting from 30ft up you'd best be practicing from 30ft up , not 10 , 15 , or 20ft. At 30ft above ground it can make a 40yd shot look like a 20yd shot.
The higher up you are , and the closer to the tree the deer is , the less likely you are to get a double lunger. You can always do the spine shot , but thats not my cup of tea.
When I was a wee lad I found out the hard way that if your hunting from 30ft up you'd best be practicing from 30ft up , not 10 , 15 , or 20ft. At 30ft above ground it can make a 40yd shot look like a 20yd shot.
07-13-2005, 06:29 AM
#19
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Kewaskum, WI
Posts: 201
RE: How high is too high?
I just wanted to add this in here because we are talking about high stands......A few years ago my dad built a nice enclosed stand with sliding windows and everything, it was about 3'x3'x6' tall. We built it so we could take it apart in panels and re-assemble it in the tree. The tree that he hunts in is a really big pine on top of a 15' tall hump in the middle of a river bottom with all alders and stuff. Me and a buddy went up one weekend and hauled the stand back there down the river, and built the stand way up in the pine. It was a ton of work, and not safe while trying to mount the platform to the tree and all. Once we finished the stand, we took our 50' rope and used it to measure how high the stand was, well, the rope just touched the ground, and reached up to te platform of the stand! When you are sitting in the stand your head is 54-55' high in this tree! And to make it better, it is on a 15' tall humb, so you are about 70' above the river bottom! Not a good stand in the wind! Him and I have taken several bucks out of that stand in the past 5 years.
Oh yeah, did I mention this is a rifle stand? I couldn't imagine ever trying to shoot a bow from that high!
Oh yeah, did I mention this is a rifle stand? I couldn't imagine ever trying to shoot a bow from that high!