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Originally Posted by iSnipe (Post 3517595)

Afraid of heights is a poor way to put it.

Take you and I for example. We're in the ring about to square off. You know for fact you're going to taste canvas. You're scared. It's your first time. The 2nd time around, same thing, you're scared. You eat canvas again. However, as time goes on and you step in the ring, time after time eating canvas, you eventually get use to the taste of canvas and yet, you're fear level for the event is waning.

Going up in trees is like that. The more you do it, the more you get use to it.

iSnipe

just remember there's no canvas under your tree!

Nothing is universal

Climbing stands can make it or break it for some hunters.

Some people seem to be instilled with the ability of taking a platform to the 35th floor and think nothing of washing the windows.
I use tree stands and I got nervous watching a roofer walk to the edge of a two story home, and look over it without any safety equipment.

I'm an inbetweener. Never loved height, but use to climb oil storage tanks without safety equipment.

I can easily use a tree stand, but I don't like those open stands. Open like an olympic height diving board, just so you can easily make a swan dive during a deer hunt.

And for some, one of the nice ground blinds is a good option.

And more hunters going to tree stands, means getting in shape and losing some weight. And learning to like the height; once you get there.

But again, there are no absolutes. And some of it has nothing to do with hunting.