how high?
08-07-2007, 03:07 PM
#3
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blissfield MI USA
Posts: 5,293
RE: how high?
Somewhere around 15 feet. I am afriad of heights though[&o]. I mostly use ladder stands, but I do have a climber. The only bad thing is it needs to darn near be a perfect tree to use it. And I don't see many of those where I hunt.
Paul
Paul
08-07-2007, 03:14 PM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 122
RE: how high?
I try for the 20 ft. level. I have a 20 ft. stick with a hang on. I also have a Summit Viper but finding trees straight enough to get up 20 ft. is tough. Just bought a Lone Wolf hang on with four sticks that ought to do it for those lone walks in.
08-07-2007, 07:01 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Where the ducks don't come no more
Posts: 4,420
RE: how high?
The vast majority of hunters I talk to are guilty of two things:
1) Vast over exaggeration/little or no concept of what one foot of height really is. I have had more people than I care to discuss come through work talking about how they only hunt from 45 feet up in a tree. Most trees in my part of the world ain't that tall, and the ones that are ain't thick enough to hold a man that high. 25 feet can seem like a mile when you are up there.
2) Hunting WAY too high. 25 feet might as well be a mile. I had one stand last season that I hunt 27 feet to the platform. 25 yards was dang near straight down. I'll never get that high up again... no need to.
I hunt from between 15 and 20 feet (to the platform) depending on cover. There have been plenty of deer I have arrowed from 12 feet... just gotta have the cover for it. Any lower than that, I'd rather be on the ground.
1) Vast over exaggeration/little or no concept of what one foot of height really is. I have had more people than I care to discuss come through work talking about how they only hunt from 45 feet up in a tree. Most trees in my part of the world ain't that tall, and the ones that are ain't thick enough to hold a man that high. 25 feet can seem like a mile when you are up there.
2) Hunting WAY too high. 25 feet might as well be a mile. I had one stand last season that I hunt 27 feet to the platform. 25 yards was dang near straight down. I'll never get that high up again... no need to.
I hunt from between 15 and 20 feet (to the platform) depending on cover. There have been plenty of deer I have arrowed from 12 feet... just gotta have the cover for it. Any lower than that, I'd rather be on the ground.
