Treestand height

[dnovo]

About 14-18' for me. Again as others have noted, it is determined by stand location. Onn a hillside, creek bottom, field edge arem just some scenarios that come to mind on where to position a stand. I have one on a field corner that is about 20', but it is there so I can see over the top of the cedar that screens me. on the other side of same field I have one that is about 12'.

[BUCKY]

I might give 10-12ft. a try in those multi trunk trees.

[JamesV]

I think the amount of pressure on the deer plays alot into the "how high thing". There are no dumb deer where I hunt.

[manitou1]

17-25 for me... depending on terrain and cover.

[KentuckyTJ]

This stand is right at 10' off the ground. Its covered up with cedars. I have now shot 4 deer from this stand. I also stood on the ground on the opposite side of the treeline it is in and killed one. The deer almost always come up the ridge the way this deer is facing. My point is height isn't as important as your cover and deer direction.

The lower you can be the better your ability to hit both lungs.

           

Had a friend that had never killed a buck with his bow. I hung him this stand in early November as it is in a pinch point in a corn field that the deer funnel around from the two larger field on either side of it. I can reach the platform standing on the ground under it. These field fill up with deer every night and you can't hunt it unless the wind is from the West/SW and blows back into the cedars. On his second time in it I get a text right at deer thirty that he just shot one. The deer with several others feed around the point out about 20 yards in the field past him. Your enemy is the wind not the height.

     

     

     

[bruinman]

Used to hunt high. Most of the time now I am about 8-10 feet. I like good cover, and I think I see just as many deer as I did when I was hunting 20 or higher. And I kill more of them.

[BUCKY]

Tom that is awesome!

[Sticks2117]

12 to 18 depending on terrain. I don't like the shot angle over those heights.

[jax]

I kill 6-10 deer a year at around 12 feet

[jax]

I kill 6-10 deer a year at around 12 feet