Jodi's Blog: Hunting from up in a tree stand

Well, this is the last day of hunting with a bow, as Shotgun season starts tomorrow. A flow of hunters have poured into the area last night and today, getting ready for the first of three days of shotgun hunting.

It is time to try my luck at hunting from a tree stand 20-30 feet above the ground rather than in a blind. This is how you get you sent off the ground and hopefully become totally invisible to the deer. Deer have good eye sight, great hearing and an amazing sense of smell!!!! Hopefully this will help me to hunt my first deer!

The tree stand is a very simple but effect piece of equipment that you carry on your back just like a backpack. It comes in two pieces, one base piece with foot straps for climbing the tree and a top piece that you haul your self up with first the top piece and then when you have raised a secured the top piece and bitten the teeth in against the tree, then you shunt the bottom piece up with your legs just like a reverse square thrust.

After climbing around 25 feet above the ground, I secured myself with a safety harness. The teeth of the top and bottom pieces of the tree stand bite into tree and as long as you are pushing down on them, they will stay locked in and secured. The safety harness is incase you fall asleep and roll over in the tree stand causing it to release it's teeth!

Here a picture after getting the tree stand up and secure and then pulling up my essentials and bow from the ground second.

What a beautiful view of the forest from up here! A much better view fir hunting as well as really being able to see the beauty of this vast forest area!