I should note that the stand was repaired last year by another guy that hunts with a crossbow. Since he doesn't need any limb clearance vertically, he kept the stand in the original design when he replaced a few parts of it. He doesn't hunt there very often, but I sure don't know why. He told me to hunt it all I want. That is an excellent site with the apples and white oak in the same vicinity. If I can get a deer out of that stand with my 62 inch recurve then anything shorter would be super! I might be able to sneak inside the stand if I had a 48 inch bow. I'm not a huge fan of bows that short though. Nothing wrong with them, but I'm not a fan.
And yes, it feels like the weight of the world came off my shoulders. A great feeling!