09-03-2014, 05:01 AM
Congrats on your draw. I am sure you will figure out your tree stand, I prefer hang on stands. for their mobility. I also take two ratchet cargo strap along to tighten it up because the ones I have used do move if you don't tighten them up. Since you are new to archery, you must shoot from the elevation you plan on hunting. Growing up in WI, I did a lot of tree stand hunting and sat 12 feet high and 16 feet high. Didn't seem to matter to the deer. If I made noise they looked up. My first hunt ever I was at the height my brother could push me up with a climber stand. I had two does walk past me and I could have touched them with an arrow in my hand and they never knew I was there.
I do want to emphasize you need to shoot from elevation so you know where your arrow is hitting at the distances you feel confident. Your arrow will be traveling down so you need to hit the deer higher than if you were on the ground.
Also, if you haven't shot your broadheads, please shoot them to ensure they are flying like your field points. I see shooters at the range now trying to figure out why they don't, and they plan on hunting deer or elk without proper set up equipment. All they are going to do is wound the animal. We owe it to them to make clean quick kills.
Good luck on you hunt.
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I do want to emphasize you need to shoot from elevation so you know where your arrow is hitting at the distances you feel confident. Your arrow will be traveling down so you need to hit the deer higher than if you were on the ground.
Also, if you haven't shot your broadheads, please shoot them to ensure they are flying like your field points. I see shooters at the range now trying to figure out why they don't, and they plan on hunting deer or elk without proper set up equipment. All they are going to do is wound the animal. We owe it to them to make clean quick kills.
Good luck on you hunt.
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