How high do you hang your stands?


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I picked up my first tree stand last week and have the camera out finalizing where I want to place it. But I'm not sure how high I should go. I was thinking about 15 feet, dose that seem right? How high do you guys hang yours?

Thanks for your help

Paul

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Take more into consideration what type of tree you are hanging in and what the elevation is around the stand. I would say that 18 feet or higher in most cases, but if there are no limbs all the way up I would go as high as 25 or so. I've been as high as the mid 30's in a climber but that's becuase I was needing to see over some stuff and I was gun hunting.

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In some cases you can be too high. Ive hunted in spots where once you got so high, you couldnt see much because of all the tree limbs and foliage below you. For me, 15-18 feet is plenty early in the year when there is plenty of foliage, and alot of the times where I hunt, visibility would really decrease if you were much higher. Once the leaves fall off i prefer to be atleast 20 feet up.

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In some cases you can be too high. Ive hunted in spots where once you got so high, you couldnt see much because of all the tree limbs and foliage below you. For me, 15-18 feet is plenty early in the year when there is plenty of foliage, and alot of the times where I hunt, visibility would really decrease if you were much higher. Once the leaves fall off i prefer to be atleast 20 feet up.

Agreed 100%

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I bow hunt from the ground up. I don't go any higher than the cover allows. Most of my set stands are between 15 and 20' in multi-trunk trees. I have one that is only 8/10' high in a thick fence row. If I need to higher I'll use a climber. Never saw the need to go much higher than 25'. The higher you go the harder the shot angle to the vitals of a deer. You will hear people say they climb high to beat the deer's nose. You have to beat their nose at any height.

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i only go up as high as the back cover and terrain dictate. some stands i can get away at 15 feet, some others 25 feet is better. what most guys dont take into consideration is all the possible directions a deer can come form. some places you know which way and its easy to set a stand. but i have one place where they can come from any direction thats why its at 25 feet.

Tony

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Most are 15 to 20 feet up I'd say. If I usually hang my stand as high as I can until I start to run into branches. This gives me enough cover to back up my outline. Some have said that they go higher after most of the foliage has dropped, but i know a handful of instances wear i went lower then. if i went higher there was too much sky and not enough clutter to break up my silhouette, but going lower gave me trees behind me. otherwise i'd have to bring snow camo cover-ups and that's just something else i'm trucking into the woods.

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Thanks for the advice.

The bush I'm going to hang it in is really open and almost all deciduous trees other than the edges that are thick saplings and grasses where I know deer bed and come in and out of the bush to the field.

I'm planning on hanging just into the middle about 20-25 yards, just off a dried up creek bed the travel on. On a wide tree to help breakup my silhouette and given everything I've read I think I will go about 20 feet.

It's going to be about a month or so before I hang it so I still got the camera up. I moved it on saturday to a spot where I found tracks, I'll post some pics when I go check it.

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Depends on the cover too. I've had some in the 14' to 15' range with limbs covered in vines all around the stand. In those cases I had to cut shooting holes out of them and from the outside looking in they resembled a natural ground blind in a tree. Most times I put my hang on stands just above the 1st good cover with good cover around me. Those I've hunted in recent years range from 18' to 28'. I'd say the average is ~22'.

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depends on ALOT of thing. bow/gun, background, cover, shooting distance, obstructions.

but on average I would say around 20' is normal with my bow. With my climber I have been up to 40' in one area....it gets a little sketchy at that heigth. I also have one stand that only sitts 10ft off ground. it's on the top of a hill with a sharp drop off of 15' to two trails that are heavly used. The two trails are only 10yds and 25yds from the base of the hill so i am 25' above my target and 15yds and 30yds from the trails.

but I like to be as high as I can comfortably

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