New Hog Hunting Spot

[WyoHunter]

Glad to hear you didn't get hurt.I had a very similar thing happen to me with a ladder stand.

[SwampRabbit]

Glad everything endex okay. This is why I like using lifelines. You just never know.

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[killerbee]

Glad you made it out ok!

[CRM_95]

I'm in the stand!! All the corn I dumped out yesterday is still here. We'll see what happens.



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[Bud Ellis]

There's a pig in the right side of you pic

[seminole1990]

sweet set up. good luck.

[CRM_95]

There's been some big hogs rubbing mud on these trees.




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[CRM_95]

Note to self...its thermacell weather again.


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[spidermonkey]

Glad everything worked out with the "scare" Ryan! And yeah, its already skeeter time! Good luck on runnin an arrow through one a them muddy suckers Good Huntin, and God Bless, Rusty

[caughtandhobble]

Dang, bad things can happen fast. Certainly glad all ended well for you my friend.

[DRT]

I have several 15' ladder stands and have had to set up and move them around a hundred times over the years. It's always an adventure and a couple of times it was down right dangerous. I've even had to climb/slide down trees I was stranded up in when I had to make a choice between being a regular squirrel or a flying squirrel.

Still do it alone all the time but I'm definitely more cautious than when I was younger and more physically capable.

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[CRM_95]

I don't think I'll hunt that high much anymore. Now that I'm setting up closer, it makes my shots pretty steep being up that high. I can't seem needing to get higher than about 12 feet now. 8-12 seems about perfect for a 12-15 yard shot. I got skunked yesterday evening. Tried to update, but for some reason I get very little cell service at camp but have pretty good service everywhere else on the place.


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[SwampRabbit]

I don't think I'll hunt that high much anymore. Now that I'm setting up closer, it makes my shots pretty steep being up that high. I can't seem needing to get higher than about 12 feet now. 8-12 seems about perfect for a 12-15 yard shot. I got skunked yesterday evening. Tried to update, but for some reason I get very little cell service at camp but have pretty good service everywhere else on the place.


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I have concluded the same about stand height. I really like the angles on an 8' but I think it is still a bit low (at least for deer.) I like the 10-12' range. 15 is getting a bit too steep for me. I had a similar conversation about stand height with a few other trad TBHers and 10-12 seems to be a common preference.

They are also a lot easier to setup too!

[Bisch]

I like being on the ground the best, but if I need to sit in a tree, it usually won't be much over 12' high. The biggest whitetail bucks I have ever killed have all been out of the same treestand - it was 25' to the base of the stand! I really did not like the angle at all, but it was in too good of a spot, and that was the only place in that particular tree that the stand would hang right!

Bisch

[CRM_95]

I have several 15' ladder stands and have had to set up and move them around a hundred times over the years. It's always an adventure and a couple of times it was down right dangerous. I've even had to climb/slide down trees I was stranded up in when I had to make a choice between being a regular squirrel or a flying squirrel.

Still do it alone all the time but I'm definitely more cautious than when I was younger and more physically capable.

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Yeah...and another thing I'll pay more attention to in the future is those straps. This one would just about crumble. If I hadn't put that new strap halfway up the ladder I would've fallen for sure.


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