How high up are you?

Same!! Plan on becoming a silent assassin on the ground next season!!

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The last buck I shot I was up about 13' because when I put the stand up I only 7 steps. He came in 9 yards he looked straight at me and the wind was blowing his direction so I gotta give some credit to carbon synergy and under armour, without the carbon synergy I think I would've definitely been busted.

 

18' typically when I am in my sticks & stand
Many of the pre hung stands are around 15'

 

Apparently I can only kill deer from the ground this year. Shot a buck last night and a doe in October! Haven't killed one from a stand this year lol.

 

I have to hand it to you ground blind hunters, I would rather drink blood than sit in one of those torture chambers they call ground blinds.

 

Why do you say torture chamber?

 

hunt from ground on P.L>. Who said any thing about a ground blind.

 

I bought a ground blind on the e-bay 5 years ago, thru an error the seller sent me 2 instead of the 1 I paid for, no reply when I pointed out the error. If the seller really hated me he would have sent 3. Ameristep doghouse blind, too small to bow hunt out of and the ceiling is far too low so you have to half squat sitting in it. I was driven crazy thru painful contortions to sit in a chair in it and the field of vision in a ground blind sucks. I would rather be water boarded than sit in a ground blind ever again.

 

This year I avg around 18 feet to my platform.

 

I cut my pull up ropes at 21' and wrap them around my seat and climb until I am just about to lift the bow. That puts my base in the 18-19' range unless I hit a knot or branch and can't climb high as normal.

 

For those who are hunting at 20' or higher how do you set your hang ons. The reason I ask is because three years ago I hung a hang on stand and the stocks I had were only 16' so I hung the stand slightly lower but I have trouble climbing in. Do you get extra sticks to go higher?

 

Screw in steps.

 

My sets are from 16' - 28' area. But if I'm in my climber I'll go as high as I can. Usually around the 28' - 30' area


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I hunt as low as 8 ft and as high as 30+ feet. 8ft was due to the only tree I could find was about 6" diameter at the base, 30+ was to see over a tree in front of me. I use muddy sticks and have a rope on each stick so I get an extra step out if each stick with little added weight. I set my stand above my top stick and step up into my stand.

 

These can and will break! I've had three Grizzly steps to break on me. I called them and they said not to leave them in the tree over 90 days. Luckily I had a safety harness on.

 

I setup anywhere between 16-22 feet, depending on cover and back drop.

 

^THIS^

 

Some of mine are 10 and others are 20 feet. Depends solely on cover. I think too often people sometimes go to high when not needed. The higher you are the more you're kill zone shrinks.

 

I'm typically in a climber, so depends on winds and terrain. Usually somewhere between 15 to about 30.

 

that's something that started to hit me after reading the answers in this thread. I was thinking about the angle of being 30' in the air and aiming down at a deer.

Now if you're 30' up at the bottom of a hill so that the area you're shooting into is onyl about 10-15' below your stand, that's a different story