any hunters have a fear of heights?
#1
any hunters have a fear of heights?
I'm just curious to know if any of you guy's have a fear of heights. Call me a coward or whatever but i have seen some other hunters stands that freak me out. I have a buddy who has a lock-on about 30 feet up with climbing sticks on the inside of a curved tree. So when your climbing the sticks your actually kind of upside down. I feel pretty safe in a climber or a ladder up to about 25 feet. Does any body here have issues with heights?
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Balt, MD (orig: J-town,PA) The bowels of Hell!!!
Posts: 2,188
RE: any hunters have a fear of heights?
Ihave acrophobia. It takes me about 20 minutes afterI get in my API archer stand to get comfortable with the height. IfI use a stand with a front rail I'm fine though.
#6
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary,Alberta,Canada
Posts: 2,123
RE: any hunters have a fear of heights?
U sed to be afraid of heights but i would still use stands but now with my new job im always workin 20-30 feet up and all im walking on is 7x7 square tubing so thanks to my job ive gotten alot more comfortable with heights.
#10
Banned
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Inside your Mom
Posts: 2,231
RE: any hunters have a fear of heights?
One of my old lock-ons, I had 20 feet of climbing sticks, then I had to climb about another 15 feet with just the tree b/c of all the limbs. It was a huge oak tree in the middle of a cut-over on a hill. You could see forever up there and I witnessed some beautiful mornings from that stand. However, I did get scared climbing in and out of it everytime, but I was always fine once I got into the stand.
Oh yeah, I was scared to death hanging that thing, too. Climbing up that tree with nothing and having that stand strapped to my back.
Oh yeah, I was scared to death hanging that thing, too. Climbing up that tree with nothing and having that stand strapped to my back.