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11-07-2006, 03:03 PM
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10' is enough for me. I get nose bleeds at anything above that. Besides that it's a shorter distance for me to fall. And yes boys and girls I have.
Ain't no fun slidin' down a ladder when your face gets smacked by every rung. Sides that it broke my upper dentures. I'm getting older and just don't like tempting fate anymore. Whenever I do anything anymore and have to trust to luck, I don't do it. I always thought that being higher up cut down on the shooting lanes and lessoned my chances. But that is just my opinion. I don't plan to upset the whole forest just so I get good shooting lanes. Reforestation is no one of my stronger attributes. 
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11-07-2006, 03:11 PM
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Billy,
That sounds seriously painful. I'm glad you weren't hurt more seriously. I'm with you, anything that I can fall out of I want as close to the ground as possible. GSG
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11-09-2006, 03:01 PM
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My tree stand is at the base of the tree. It is a hunk o ground covered in pine needles.
GoodOlBoy
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11-09-2006, 03:08 PM
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GOB,
Kind of hard to fall out of that one, huh? I guess the best you could do would be to fall over.  GSG
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11-09-2006, 03:53 PM
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Depends on how much of that clean liquid from the mason jar I have had.
GoodOlBoy
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11-09-2006, 03:56 PM
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Water?
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11-09-2006, 04:59 PM
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mmmmm not quite. . . . .
However it looks alot like water. . . . GoodOlBoy
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11-09-2006, 05:15 PM
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Hmm......
Vodka? GSG
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11-10-2006, 12:51 PM
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Durn Yankees! I am talkin about Shine!
GoodOlBoy
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11-10-2006, 01:12 PM
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I knew that GOB.
I was jist funnin wit' ya. I don't believe I've ever tasted moonshine. I'm starting to think a trip down South might be in order. I'll be in Florida in January, but I'm told that's not considered the South by some. GSG
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11-10-2006, 05:29 PM
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What part of Florida? I'll be down there in December for Christmas visiting my in-laws. Some parts are like the south, and other parts are full of retirees from the north. That state is too flat and too hot for me. The first time I went down there, we went in October. Went out for a walk with shorts and a t-shirt and I was sweating like you wouldn't believe. I guess the silver lining in the cloud is that you don't have to worry too much about getting cold while hunting.
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11-10-2006, 05:33 PM
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I'll be in Orlando at the Shot Show.
Probably won't see much but the Convention Center and the Condo. Guess it's a good thing I'm not into tanning. Sun and fair skin do not mix. I've never been a big Florida fan. I have always wanted to see Texas and Louisiana though. GSG
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11-10-2006, 06:05 PM
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Tree stands etc
I used to get 10 ft up...but as time went on the deer started lookin up so I went higher. Depended on the area but quite a bit of the time I was 20-30 ft. But I really knew the area I was hunting and where the deer were likely to be comin from.
Fabs when cigarettes were much cheaper I used 'em for a kinda bait. Leave a few camels around the stand tree and they were always gone come mornin. Deer loved 'em....and a lot of 'em came back for more...while I was there!! In Md the deer are so close to humans they don't seem to worry about the smellin so much any more...But if'n they smell ya and see ya you're done fer certain. 
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11-11-2006, 09:50 AM
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That might be so on the Eastern Shore. Around here, I can easily get to within 30 yards of a deer out my garage door and they don't even move. I had 4 of them standing watching me the other day while I was taking pictures of them. If I was using a gun instead of a camera, there would have been at least one dead deer out of that group.
I went for a 30 mile bike ride yesterday, 15 miles out and 15 miles back, and in that 15 mile stretch of road, I saw 3 dead does and thought I smelled two more in the bushes off the road. They usually pick up the carcasses pretty quickly too. That is just how many deer we have around here.
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11-29-2008, 07:51 PM
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I bought a 16' ladder stand this summer. I've taken two nice bucks out of it. One at 5yds one at 50yds.
I also have an old climber that I like to be at least 20' off the ground, 30' is even nicer...depends really on surroundings. I haven't heard of any stands higher than that. I'm in south central Virginia.
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