7mm
I’m with you....nothing harder than hunting from the ground. Way too easy to get busted. That’s why I chose to start one sticking, so I could go deep and still climb a tree. Just couldn’t keep lugging that viper or getting busted on the ground.
I have read many comments by hunters who readily embrace the dramatic increase in difficulty killing a mature buck with a bow while sitting on the ground and I absolutely respect and even admire their desire to make bow hunting that much more difficult
Me personally the level of difficulty I have taking a mature buck over 3 years old from a stand 20 feet up a tree with a bow is all the difficulty I could ever want to overcome.
I hunt to kill things first and foremost
I absolutely love my time on stand and save for my children nothing else besides hunting gives me more enjoyment
But I'm not there because I love being in the deer woods as I can do that anytime I wish
I'm there to hopefully kill a mature buck because I interpreted the deer sign correctly and set up to allow myself an opportunity to ambush him.