How high are you?

Gern186 said:

I get it....

I am trying to get a feel for how the hill country guys are doing their setups.

I plan on hunting some hill country in Richland county this year and there are no tree steps allowed on the property, so I am going to have to come up with an alternative to getting up the tree.

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There are a couple alternatives... Even if you don't want to have a mobile stand you can still go with the sticks... I'm sure you already have plenty of hang ons that work great with screw in steps, stackable sticks, etc...

If you buy a pair of mobile sticks they're the last and only ones you'll need.... Use them to hang a fixed stand and then take them down leaving the stand 20+ feet in a tree. This is what I do with all of my old permanent stands. You don't have to worry about theft, or anyone hunting your rig. Two weekends ago i went to Vinton county to pull a hang on I set last November. I went to the spot and walked around for 10 minutes looking in the trees.. I thought someone stole it but knew that was impossible. I found it about 40 yards from where i remembered it.. It was that hard to find up there and i hung the damn thing. lol .. When I walk up to a tree it literally takes me 2 minutes or so to hang the sticks and hop in the stand that's up there.

I have a mobile stand also. 90% of the time it stays at home and I hunt the stands i mentioned above. But if I'm sitting in one of those stands and I see a nice deer across the field or down in the hollow... That night i don't have to sit at home and rack my brain.. "How am I going to kill him over there" or "I hope he comes over tomorrow".. None of it.. The first thing through my mind is "I'm moving in on that bastard in the morning" I walk outside to the garage, strap my sticks to my mobile stand, and daylight will find me sitting in a tree over there where he was. What tree? I don't care.. If i can put my hand on it, I can climb it and hang that stand. I didn't have to go look for a straight tree the evening before, or wait for the crack of dawn to see if this tree will work or if it has limbs.

Putting up the sticks and stand if far quieter than most think... And IMO quieter than a climber locking into a tree twice for every 1.5 feet of height gained. You can sneak into a spot and hang a stand pretty quietly.

Gern186 said:

Ok,

What mobile sticks do you recommend. I plan on putting up a couple hang ons and getting some sticks.

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LW.. I had a set of Muddy sticks and traded them for LW.