Opinion Needed 10-15' Tri-Pod Hunting Stands

TIP-1-ORV · 08-05-2008, 05:21 PM

Any experience hunting from a tri-pod stand? I hunt a creek bottom that skirts a raised hay field with many 2-5' draws so i was thinking that maybe one of those stands would elevate me up high enough to see the creek bottom, hay field, and the draws.

Any thoughts?

fish4bass · 08-05-2008, 05:34 PM

I had a friend that always hunted from one and it was amazing how the deer didn't care about you at all. There would always be deer feeding right below us. His was on the edge of a river and in a corn field. It should help you look out over more area where you think the deer might be.

nehunter88 · 08-05-2008, 05:50 PM

Sometimes I think we give deer more credit then they deserve.

For the last few years as soon as the crops are out we pull 5x10 foot wooden blinds out into the field at locations where the deer cross in the morning or evening. They do tend to stick out like a sore thumb in the middle of a bean field, but the deer will walk right by them.

The first year we put them out I wanted them out as quick as possible so the deer would get used to them. The second one wasn't quite done, but I decided to pull it out anyway and finish the door and windows later. This was the 2nd day after the beans were out. I saw some deer crossing the field about 3 or 4 hours after I put the blind out so I snuck over to see if it bothered them. They stopped and started eating about 30 yards in front of the blind.

There is one other advantage to these blinds being so obvious. We noticed the road hunting went down drastically. Well it did after we stepped out a time or two. Seems the road hunters were about as smart as the deer and didn't know what they were either.

At one point I took the picture from one of those deer targets you practice on, and stapled it to a piece of plywood and cut it out to make a decoy. We still laugh at the guy that was sneaking up on it until I stepped out of the blind and asked him not to shoot my decoy.

laughingwatr · 08-05-2008, 06:10 PM

Nehunter88 is exactly right. It seems the more obvious you make your blind/tractor/pickup the better they work. If you want to use a tripod many of them are just a chair on top and movement can cause problems. Also, 15 ft is getting pretty high so anchor it well. I've never had a problem with 10 ft high on box blinds.

08-05-2008, 05:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
TIP-1-ORV Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 41 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	10-15' Tri-Pod Hunting Stands Any experience hunting from a tri-pod stand? I hunt a creek bottom that skirts a raised hay field with many 2-5' draws so i was thinking that maybe one of those stands would elevate me up high enough to see the creek bottom, hay field, and the draws. Any thoughts?

08-05-2008, 05:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
nehunter88 Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 141 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Sometimes I think we give deer more credit then they deserve. For the last few years as soon as the crops are out we pull 5x10 foot wooden blinds out into the field at locations where the deer cross in the morning or evening. They do tend to stick out like a sore thumb in the middle of a bean field, but the deer will walk right by them. The first year we put them out I wanted them out as quick as possible so the deer would get used to them. The second one wasn't quite done, but I decided to pull it out anyway and finish the door and windows later. This was the 2nd day after the beans were out. I saw some deer crossing the field about 3 or 4 hours after I put the blind out so I snuck over to see if it bothered them. They stopped and started eating about 30 yards in front of the blind. There is one other advantage to these blinds being so obvious. We noticed the road hunting went down drastically. Well it did after we stepped out a time or two. Seems the road hunters were about as smart as the deer and didn't know what they were either. At one point I took the picture from one of those deer targets you practice on, and stapled it to a piece of plywood and cut it out to make a decoy. We still laugh at the guy that was sneaking up on it until I stepped out of the blind and asked him not to shoot my decoy. __________________ Whoever said cats always land on their feet wasn't throwing them right.-Anonymous

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08-05-2008, 05:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
fish4bass Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Holdrege/Kearney Posts: 81 Thanks: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	I had a friend that always hunted from one and it was amazing how the deer didn't care about you at all. There would always be deer feeding right below us. His was on the edge of a river and in a corn field. It should help you look out over more area where you think the deer might be.

08-05-2008, 06:10 PM	#4 (permalink)
laughingwatr Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Niobrara River Posts: 104 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Nehunter88 is exactly right. It seems the more obvious you make your blind/tractor/pickup the better they work. If you want to use a tripod many of them are just a chair on top and movement can cause problems. Also, 15 ft is getting pretty high so anchor it well. I've never had a problem with 10 ft high on box blinds.