HOW "HIGH" are YOU?
 

When climbing and setting your portable treestands, what height do most people hang their stands?
I myself usually go up about 20 feet. I have a rope that I pull my bow up with and it's 20' in length, I tie it to my safety bar and when all the slack is out I am approx. 20' in the tree.
I have seen some hunters permanent stands as high as 40' in a tree.

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I mostly have tree ladders that are 16 feet high so thats about how high I go I have never been seen in a tree by deer so I have never had any reason to go any higher. I don't like climber stands (personal prefrence) I only use fixed position stands.

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Anywhere between 15 and 25 feet.

It all depends on the tree and the terrain.

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usually between 15 and 20'

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I don't do fixed position stands but I go 25 - 30 feet high in a climber.

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around 20ft or so

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At least 20, as long as I have good cover behind me

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With my ladders I am 16" high. But my climber and hang ons have me anywhere between 20-30". As said before, it depends on the terrain, cover etc.

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I am usually 10- 20 feet. Do the same thing, I have a 20 foot rope and when I get to the end of it, I know I am at least or around 20 feet high![8D]

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i dont hunt from tree stands much but when i do its no higher than 20 feet .dont like hieghts to much .

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15 to 30 feet, it depends on the tree.

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18-22 usually.

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about 20'-22' and that is good for me. I get this nervous feeling when I go above that.[:-]

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I go as low as 6' and the highest I go is 20'. depends on the terrain and the available cover. I don't go over 20' b/c I find at that height a light breeze can move a Jack pine several feet which can be very disconcerting! On windy days I sit on the ground.

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15 max feet for me, and I actually measure. I like to get them in close, but I don't like steep angle shots.

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I like 18-20 staa atop three clibing sticks, I've read articles that 12 is the best, guess if you can get a good backdrop there is no wrong, but I like a low-mid exit wound..

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When I hunt from either a lock-on stand or climber, I stay between 15 and 18 feet.

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12' to 15' max. im not real big on heights and never felt the need to go any higher than that.

40' permanent stands. holy moly. thats like hunting from the top of a two story house with a 9/12 pitch

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most of the time 30+

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22' in my favorite tree. (that way I can hang my pack onthe broken branch on the side nearby!) ;)

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15'-20'- much more it makes the vitals that much more smaller...

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No higher than I want to fal

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Only as high as you are comfortable with. I have killed Deer from 10' up to about 35' high. The tree and the shots it allows usually dictate how high or low I go.

DetLieut

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i hunt traditional and anymore, the lower the better

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17-22 feet on average,depending on the tree and terrain.

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15 to 20 is all i have good sucess there..........

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20 to 25 for it depends on the terrain. 40 feet with a bow? that's way to high for me

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I try to stay around 15-20 feet. Last year I hunted one morning in a buddy's stand that was close to 40' high on the downhill side and a 'comfortable' 35 feet on the uphill side. I've hunted some high stands before buy my goodness was that one up there. It was so high that when I was climbing up I had to stop about 10' below the standand hug the tree to gather my nerves! It was in a mature white oak stand that didn't have any under brush at all in a residential neighborhood. You had to be that high to keep the deer from seeing you (according to my buddy at least). I think had I just stoodon the ground wearing dress clothes looking like I was a local resident the deer would have just come up to me and tried to eat out of my hand. The more I think about it I think the treestand was just for effect. Urban hunting at it's finest. I'm glad I don't have to hunt like that every day.

Am I a SPIKE yet?

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i'm always at least 20'

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Average 15 to 20ft. Not much more than 20 though because like you that is long as my hoist rope is.