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Daddy built some 60+ years ago..hed run a climbin stand 40ft in a heartbeat…idk why he did that…i climbed 25-30ft purty regular in my ol mans an i still hang my loc on an average height of 18-25ft..but i mostly hang 15-20ft..i kilt my first rcurve deer 6ft off the ground in 2020..i had good cover and side hilled him..ive kilt a bunch 10-12ft high..depends on cover…ive done it in trees that are barely 8in in diameter too.

We put up several loc on stands in my teens that were 40-50’ up. I had a pine on the forest in perry cnty I could get 60’ plus in with my climber. I had a spike under me and he looked like a squirrel from that height. Don’t know why I put ladder.

I'm not a candidate for these type stands. Once I get to 18'-22' or so my brain tells my body to stop. Sometimes I push past it if I really want to hunt at a certain height pretty bad. I remember one morning I climbed in a spot in the dark so I couldn't tell how high I was. It was a nice climb where I felt confident with how my summit was biting the tree and the angle of the bottom. When it got light I figured out I was about 30-35' up. I got settled just sitting there, but the climb down was zero fun.

I’ve got a couple of bluff edges that I’ll sit on at my farm. They are probably 50’-100’ drop in some places. It’s where I’ll go if I want an easy hunt. Park in a flat field and walk over to them. Easy in-Easy Out and Up high and undetected. I should probably hunt them more. I’d kill more deer.

I got up p about 40 on my climber on the edge of a deep bluff and it looked even higher cause I was looking down the bluff. Wind got up and scared the hell out of me I got the only anxiety attack I have ever had. This was before cell phones and I was in the middle of nowhere by myself. Kept looking down and panicked the whole time as the wind was whipping me around. Finally got it together and came down. Never again.

Oh when you get up that high and it’s windy your but will be puckered up so tight you couldn’t get a greased bb up it.

There was a club I was in years ago in Macon County that loved those damned cotton spindles for their lock-ons or platforms build in the tree.. I have always hated those things - I never once felt safe climbing on them.

I have a Tree Lounge (had it for years) - I guess if the tree was skinned high enough, there wasn't a height that I wouldn't climb in it. But, I think the highest I've ever climbed was probably 30', that was the length of my pull rope and once it started lifting the gun on a climb - I stopped.

I used to climb 20ft+ in the old homemade climber back in the day...but after a ladder stand accident in 93'...I usually hunt the ground and do good...no longer have a climber and occasionally climb a 12-14ft metal ladder stand... most of it is a mental thing I know...but

We've got one at a club in Coosa co called "Too Tall" and there have been several deer shot over from that stand...