Am I crazy?

[NikoTheBowHunter]

I’m thinking a guy would be able to climb to the top portion of a pine tree, say 60-75ft and hunt from that vantage point with a rifle and scope. Am I crazy? I have no first hand experience trying either but I do hunt a lot of pines. Thinking the higher up one got with a rifle the more they would be able to see right?

 

[YotaboyPatrick]

Ya, but a small wind come up and you know what happens to pine trees, you would be tethered In on the top of the tree as it snapped off and smacked the ground. Be careful.

 

[Tapeworm]

I do hunt some pretty tall pine tree and palm trees here in FL

A few I hunt between 40-45ft but it isn’t easy

There is quite a bit of motion/sway with wind or if u shift ur weight

The trees move more than u would expect

I do see and shoot deer in the dog fennel, gallberries, swamp grass, palmettos that other guys can’t see from their 15-20ft stand heights







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[rutjr]

Are you crazy? You hang from a rope in a tree! LOL

 

[Kurt]

I don't generally hunt that high but I've been 50-60 feet in a hemlock tree and killed deer with the shotgun. The way the branches lay out makes them easy to hand climb.

 

[Weldabeast]

I will not climb a pine unless it's 100% the only option. Highest I've climbed was maybe 50ft but I was cutting branches and not hunting .... I know at 20 feet I'm always surprised how small the deer look and imagine they look really tiny that high up ......I guess with optics on your rifle no biggie...I use iron sight so I'm not climbing up that high

So yes you are crazy for wanting to climb pine trees

 

[Jwiggins762]

My dad use to climb 40' to 45' with his climber no harness and smoked like a chimney. He was crazy.

 

[150plusB&C]

Yes we are all nuts


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[catman529]

I’ve climbed 50 feet up a black walnut in a climber, but I don’t think I would climb that high in a pine tree.


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[michigandrake]

I had a treestand in a giant red pine about 40' up. It was on top of a hill overlooking a 300 acre cut. I loved and hated that stand. You could see forever and I shot a lot of bucks out of it. When the wind and weather kicked up it was somewhere between miserable and terrifying. 75' up .... dang brother that's hardcore. Maybe you could mod your saddle with a parachute .... lol. Seriously though if you go that high the wind will have to be calm .... really, really calm or your tree will move so much you won't be able to shoot with any accuracy.

 

[Tr33_n1nj@]

I have a stand of cypress where I could probably climb 70-80 feet before hitting a limb, not that I need or want to though. They are big enough at the bottom I can’t reach around. So not even sure how to go about climbing one that big unless you DRT/SRT.