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3 minutes ago, Rusty said:

I hunt from the ground, that's about as low as you can get!  :rofl:   

One time a sat in the fork of a tree no more then  6 or 7  feet off  the ground and deer got pretty close with out seeing  me. Also have hunted from ground and had deer come in to  eye site range .

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1 minute ago, Swamp_bucks said:

Hunted or killed?  I’ve hunted from 4’-18’ usually stay in the 10-12’ range.  Have killed plenty at the 6-8’ height it’s all about the cover. 

 I guess killed  or seen  deer from 

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I've killed deer from the ground, up to twenty feet, and all in between. Cover, or lack thereof is the key. Though I'm no fan of heights. 

90% of my hunting over the last decade or so has been from the ground.

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Three feet in a crook of a tree

Twenty-Five feet up in a pine with a small foot platform.  (I was young then)

Shot deer from both but now I've settled on twelve feet.

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6-15 max.... Not a fan of heights at all and I've trained myself to sit pretty still, at least for 4 to 5 hours straight.  The eyes move first and then the head extremely slow.

When we are upstate I will occasionally hunt from the ground, but down here on Long Island I need some height because of the thick crap

Edited by NYRturkeycall

Palma non sine pulvere 

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I've hunted as low as 1-2 feet just to get off the ground and not make noise with my feet but basically plant myself inside a brush pile on a tree and see over the brush.  Then I've hunted upwards of 35-40 feet when gun hunting.  Nowadays I'm in that 20-25ft range mostly but might go upwards of 30.  

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Most of my stands are ladder stands, do most are right around 15 feet. With my hang ons and my climber i stick right around that same height. The higher you go, the more the tree sways in the wind and that's unsettling. I also worry about shoot placement and shot angle the higher i go.

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Lowest was 1.5'. I was using the platform as a seat because I was on a knowl  and the bear bait was 15' below me.  

Highest probably 16'.  

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I’ve shot deer from stands where my feet were less than 1ft off the ground and my biggest racked buck I shot in Ohio and my 35ft pull up rope had my muzzleoader swinging as I climbed in my climber. I had to tighten the belts one my lone wolf twice as I climbed NOT RECOMMENDED! The higher I went the more I could see so I kept climbing. Shot him at 20yds so it was all for nothing. 

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