20-30

15-22 is where I'm comfortable.

I've killed several deer bow hunting out of 10 ft ladders. Cover and comfort are more important to me than height.

It's not that they can't tell the difference, they just don't really think about it until someone brings it up. If I didn't have a rope to tell me when I was at 20', truthfully, my feet were at more like 18.5' or so, I would've guessed I was about 80' or so with my fear of heights. Obviously, I exaggerate, but I do bet a lot of people think they are at 30' when they are really at 20'. The woods looks different off of the ground.

Then of course is the macho factor that adds an extra ten feet to the height they claimed to be.

I havn't climbed in years as my old knees don't like to, but I had a few places I would tighten up my 50' paracord string to pull my rifle up. You can dang near get seasick on a windy day.

Usually 20-25'. But if I'm hunting a cutover/planted pines, I love to pick out a big ol pine tree on the edge and climb as high as I can in order to see down into the cover. It goes without saying that i wear a harness from the ground up and I feel completely comfortable doing it.

40ft is way on up there. I have a stand up right now I can get up 40ft in, and would because that's where I can see all I need to see. Most trees would dump you out of your stand before you get to 40. Maybe in a real straight pine. I can tell you 40ft up in a tree on a mountain side sure looks alot higher when your looking off the mountain. I climb trees for a living so I'm used to being up there or I probably wouldn't do it. Alot could go wrong.

I climb as high as the situation requires

ive killed deer anywhere from 8' to 55 or so. Just go as high as I need to. Sometimes that's a lockon in a evergreen that has plenty of cover and you don't need to be but 10-12 foot off the ground. Sometimes that's 50' up a big Ol pine watching a clear cut. I'd say average while bow hunting hardwoods with the leaves off, I get 25-30.

As someone said earlier, most folks are terrible at estimating heights and I'm betting that's a lot of it. For my job, I estimate/design scaffolding for construction sites and have been doing it for almost 15 years. Nearly daily, I run across two types of people. Those who look at a height of 60' and call it 20' and those who look at 15' and call it 75'.

Usually climb at least 20 if there isn't a canopy. If there is I just go as high as I can get (I hunt a 25 year old pine plantation so usually 18 to 20 is about as high as I can get before I get to limbs). If it's a nice big old growth, wide, straight pine I go around 30. I've got some old growth pines picked out overlooking clear cuts where I plan on going around 40. I've used my range finder to confirm my 30 foot climbs. I really think going high helps with scent, and I mean a whole lot.

I wouldn't climb that high without a treewalker, though. Those spikes don't let go of the tree without some force. Always make sure to climb nice and slow and deliberate.

I prefer to be extremely high when possible. Nothing outrageous, but I've climbed high enough a few times in the past that it felt dangerous. I have used a 50' parachute cord for years and years, and I think only once did I get near that. Climbing 40-ish' would usually be in a pine on a clearcut.

I enjoy being about 20' in a white oak just at the limbs. Really like if I can climb up to the limbs and have my upper body above the limb(s) when I stand up (for cover).

I use to do it in my younger days (40' +) but no more. I'm too old to climb that high. I look back and realize how blessed I was to do that without wearing a safety harness. I referred to it as the Pine Tree Rodeo. I'd see a lot of deer doing it. I admit I did some stupid ass things back in the day hunting but now prefer to stalk hunt. When I do climb a tree it's anywhere from 12-15 ft up.

logged on to say same thing. but I think mine is 25'.

dales hunting hoist. whatever length the strap in it is. of course its on my backpack, so I guess that's another couple of feet off the platform.

if I have to start pulling my bow up off the ground, its time to stop climbing

25 or less. Have folks in the club that get on up to that 40 range to watch clear cuts. Not me I'm too lazy to climb that high

I had one tree I climbed 40'. It was in a beaver pond. The first ten ft was to get to ground level when my plot that was inside a clearcut. When I got to 40', I could see the beaver dams, a hay field behind a clear cut and The edge of 50 acres of planted pines. I usually climb as high as needed to see , but no further. When bow hunting seldom over 20'. The higher you go the angle grows and target window decreases on a deer that is 20 yards or less from you.

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Dr. B

20-30'

20 is my minimum, I prefer 25 if the canopy situation allows, and sometimes 30. I do have a spot where the tree won't allow me to go over 12 but it is the only tree in the right spot. I'm gonna kill a 150 inch buck out of it someday.

I usually climb between 20' and 30'. My pull rope is 30' and when it gets tight I feel like that's high enough. Like others have said, the situation dictates how high I climb. Sometimes 15' is all you need.

I usually climb between 15 amd 20 ft. Like others have measured by the pull rope. I really dont like heights at all. Some times i only climb 10ft because I'm on top of a ridge and it offered the best line of sight and clearest shooting lane. I promise that you'll never catch me 40ft up in a tree. Buddy of mine is always spouting off about climbing 30ft etc. All the times he's been hunting with me I've only seen him climb once which was pretty funny because he called me and asked if I'd come pick his bottom half of his climber and putnit back in the tree for him he said he was sitting there hunting and he was using the end of his climber to scrath his leg and it fell off and that he was way up in the tree. I get there and standing on the ground(I'm 5'10") pick his bottom half up and stick it in the tree. I never said a word about him being "way up there"