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Post by bill9068 on Dec 20, 2022 15:19:45 GMT -5
For those who have ever climbed these and lived, we will never forget sitting in one. This one is about 35 years old on my Perry county property. My dad and I built this one but I bet it was only used once or twice. I used the baker climber a lot back then. I was young and dumb when I was 17!and fell off the steps climbing one of these. I wasn’t hurt but was a lot more careful after that.
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Post by pigeonflier on Dec 20, 2022 15:27:14 GMT -5
Some of the things I climbed up in back when...
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Post by steiny on Dec 20, 2022 15:43:08 GMT -5
Spent a lot of time in stands like that and even killed a few deer.
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Post by genesis273 on Dec 20, 2022 16:00:28 GMT -5
Spent a lot of time in stands like that and even killed a few deer. Same here. I built several like that and killed out of them.
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Post by titanium700 on Dec 20, 2022 16:48:18 GMT -5
Yup. And tied myself to the tree with some rope around my waist for fall prevention. 😳😳🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪
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Post by onebentarrow on Dec 20, 2022 16:54:15 GMT -5
Bill a lot of them. Checked them every year befor season. Killed a bunch of deer out of them.
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Post by beermaker on Dec 20, 2022 17:12:51 GMT -5
Yup. And tied myself to the tree with some rope around my waist for fall prevention. 😳😳🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪 Ditto. In hindsight, I honestly think that hitting the ground would have been better than getting hung up by one of those so called safety belts.
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 20, 2022 17:22:41 GMT -5
I've got a double seat model in a tree in my back yard. I built it before the house was here.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 20, 2022 17:59:38 GMT -5
My wife in hers years ago during a rainy day in the 2003 firearms season. The property has since sold, so no idea if it is still there or not.
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Post by titanium700 on Dec 20, 2022 18:05:40 GMT -5
Wow. That’s way up there for one of those type of stands.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 20, 2022 18:05:54 GMT -5
The remnants of my 45-foot high (yes, 45) stand that I killed a doe out of on the firearms opener in 1998.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 20, 2022 18:12:13 GMT -5
Wow. That’s way up there for one of those type of stands. That was her first year of hunting, so I used my climber to keep an eye on her that season. She killed an 8-pointer from that stand on every firearms opener for the next three years, while I hunted another farm. Her last hunt from it resulted in a spine-shot buck that bawled before quickly dying, and she hasn't hunted since.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 20, 2022 18:51:41 GMT -5
Goodness M4, you got oxygen up in those things?
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 20, 2022 19:35:05 GMT -5
Goodness M4, you got oxygen up in those things? LOL! It's been over 20 years since I hunted out of any of them. My wife's last year in hers was 2006. The property was heavily timbered in 2017 and sold the same year. I can see the property line from my bedroom window, so it's a sad situation. I do have a funny story about the 45-foot tall one, but first a little tidbit about it. It was situated at the head of a mostly-dry ravine. Right below the tree was a 15-foot rock ledge waterfall, so on that side of the stand, it was actually 60 feet high! Opening morning of the 1998 firearms season found snow on the ground and me situated in that high fork. Looking back now, I was STUPID, as I never used a harness for climbing to it or while in it. The steps were simply 2X4's with four nails holding each one on! I spied a lone doe walking a fencerow and my original plan was to use her for buck bait. Suddenly, I kept hearing this sick-sounding, squeaky grunt. It was drawing closer and closer, and I kept scanning behind me to locate the source. I finally found it -- a trespassing hunter who was walking and blowing into his grunt tube. Realizing that my hunt was essentially ruined, I decided it was now or never on the doe. I fired my Remington shotgun right as the guy was almost directly below me, and it scared the heck out of him and he made haste! LMAO!
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Dec 20, 2022 19:41:15 GMT -5
I've seen some crazy high stands like that on public land around here.
No way, not me.
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Post by firstwd on Dec 20, 2022 19:44:16 GMT -5
I had a few and too fell off the ladder of one. My feet were 13 feet off the ground when I went full Wile-E-Coyote and landed flat on my back. I found a 6" tree next to me and wrapping around my head when I got up out of the 3" deep hole I made. I was 16 or 17.
This is also one of the main reasons I started teaching Hunter Ed.
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Post by titanium700 on Dec 20, 2022 19:57:18 GMT -5
I’ve been up 53’ but that was on a super straight tree on a hillside and with my summit climber.
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Post by onebentarrow on Dec 20, 2022 20:00:43 GMT -5
Goodness M4, you got oxygen up in those things? LOL! It's been over 20 years since I hunted out of any of them. My wife's last year in hers was 2006. The property was heavily timbered in 2017 and sold the same year. I can see the property line from my bedroom window, so it's a sad situation. I do have a funny story about the 45-foot tall one, but first a little tidbit about it. It was situated at the head of a mostly-dry ravine. Right below the tree was a 15-foot rock ledge waterfall, so on that side of the stand, it was actually 60 feet high! Opening morning of the 1998 firearms season found snow on the ground and me situated in that high fork. Looking back now, I was STUPID, as I never used a harness for climbing to it or while in it. The steps were simply 2X4's with four nails holding each one on! I spied a lone doe walking a fencerow and my original plan was to use her for buck bait. Suddenly, I kept hearing this sick-sounding, squeaky grunt. It was drawing closer and closer, and I kept scanning behind me to locate the source. I finally found it -- a trespassing hunter who was walking and blowing into his grunt tube. Realizing that my hunt was essentially ruined, I decided it was now or never on the doe. I fired my Remington shotgun right as the guy was almost directly below me, and it scared the heck out of him and he made haste! LMAO! That is funny.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Dec 20, 2022 20:05:37 GMT -5
I’ve been up 53’ but that was on a super straight tree on a hillside and with my summit climber. That's almost out of archery range for me.
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 20, 2022 20:07:21 GMT -5
My first year of bow hunting I shinnied up a large sapling to get to a big oak tree limb to stand on.
After that we started building treestands like the one pictured.
My highest back then was 35’.
Of course we did not use any kind of fall restraint. We even kidded one deer hunter who put guard rails on his stand.
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