Tree Stands. Can't shoot the deer on the other side
 

Have you ever been hunting and not been able to shoot the deer that is on the other side of the tree? Then when you tried to position yourself to shoot it you spooked the deer and it ran away?

Do you feel a 360 degree view from the tree standwould help solve this problem? Or what are other ways you would solve this

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Can I add to your thread...Thanks.

I credit you guys for convincing me to always wear my harness. Now~

I don't have a problem moving in my stand. But there is always a place with the darn safety harness that it will interfere with my shot. I've tried it high, lower..always one spot, it's a pain! Remedies? or live with it and try to position the stand so that is the least likely shooting place?

RE: Tree Stands. Can't shoot the deer on the other side
 

When bowhunting I stand, usually I can hear the deer coming and position myself before they can see me...If it's too late, stay still, many times they will come through and offer you a quartering away shot...If this happens often, change trees...

With a rifle, if they are too close to stand and turnaround, I shoot from my off shoulder...

RE: Tree Stands. Can't shoot the deer on the other side
 

Live with it or die without it , its realy not a choice

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this is my first year stand and bowhunting i found that with my two person stand i had small area to shoot about 90 degrees or so to myleft
but the high traffic area is to my right and thereis a lot of attivity behind me

if i stand i can shoot 360 degrees expect for the smallarea where the tree which behind the tree is a big bush tree.

which standing is hard for me sincei am a big guyand i have only been in the stand three hunts the first i would noteven stand the second i did but would not shoot .

try standing it will help

also if you had a tree you could cut down to where you shoot but not below where the stand hangs you would get 360 view

yesterday i found my self standing me then setting

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I tie a screw in hanger about 6-8 inches above my right shoulder, on the side of the tree, not directly behind me...I then hook the strap from the tree to the harness over the hanger...The strap to my harness hangs under this hanger...I can shoot a bow from either direction...Hope this helps...

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I've learned that my harness rope works better for me about chest height while standing on the platform. The harness strap and the rope hang down enough for me to shoot either side.

Anyway when you know there isa deer coming that you could loosen the rope around the tree and slide it down farther before attempting a shot? Think that would help?

RE: Tree Stands. Can't shoot the deer on the other side
 

The Treesaddle solved this problem for me. And it solved a few other problems as well.

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My Treelounger stand helped solve this problem for me. Since you can stand up AND you have some seperation from the tree, your shooting options are expanded greatly.

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Sounds good..but.. My lead ain't that long

Thats what I've been doing as of late

Don't know..the buckle would probably rattle at some inconvienant time or excess movement would be caught. I've thought of this.. Like last night I moved my knife into my pocket and decided I would just cut it if need be.

Thanks...the same could be said for helmet laws..speeding...unsafe sex..tobacco..alchohol...etc etc

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I use a Tree-Lounge stand and can shoot close to 360 around the tree, my solution to the harness stopping me from shooting to the right behind the tree was to put a D-Loop on the tree tether' put a second tree tether between the tree and my harness tether and added enough to adjust it out when something aproaches from the right rear to make a shot, then adjust it back after.

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For some reason I think the opening post in this thread is a prelude for an infomercial on a tree sling or something. Honestly, if you can't shoot a deer on the other side of the tree without spooking it... you're probably doing a lot of things wrong. I've shot them behind the tree, all around the tree and under the stand. It's the hunter grasshopper, not the fault of the stand. The addition of a full body safety harness to my inventoryhas made it more difficult... but it can be done. You just have to be careful. Stand placement can resolve most such problems. If you're not shooting deer where you expect to shoot them you're not planning right. Oh yes, there will be exceptions...but that's what they should be, exceptions. Every stand should be placed with deer patterns, wind, sun, which hand you shoot withand whatever determining where best to put it. Move WARY WAry CAREFOOOLY... we ain't huntin' Wabbits.

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If the deer is in bow range, directly behind your tree, one offour things HAS to happen if you don't spook him:

1) He walks out on the right
2) He walks out on the left
3) He walks under you
4) He walks directly away

1-3 you have shots, 4, well, he wins :(

Facts are, you are in a tree, hooked to it, the tree will be in the way sometimes. You should have over 270 degrees of shooting movement, but you'll never get 360 unless you do some gymnastics in the tree.

If it continually happens, move the stand, even just spin it around the tree a bit.

There's always a place the deer can be, be in range, and you not be able to shoot, unless its the middle of a field,

Where's the fun in always winning? :D