A tree stand is an elevated platform to get above the sight of deer and to take advantage of seeing a littlemore realestate.
Back east here the woods are totally different then there in Colorado and surrounding states.
We can can not see openly ridge to ridge. Most sight distance is average 80 yards or so with rolling landscape.
And then people like to sit elevated to look over brush lots and over grown fields and cow pastures.
Hunting here is totally different then out there.
Just like hunting in Washington State. The east side is mostly hihh dessert where the west side id mostly evergreen trees and where I live the woods are very steep and some times unpenetrateable.
Every reagion has different hunting tactics, and with in that reagion there are several varations of hunting tactics.
Down in the south - east some areas are so thick the use dogs to run the deer so they can shoot them.
In the north - east around some of the larger cities you can only use shotgun with #00 buckshot.
Around some of the larger cities it is bow only.
Where I hunt the average shot at a deer is only seventy-five yards or so.
I shot one yestrrday that was only at 50 yards or so in the woods.
Where you are the average shot is probably 300 to 500 yards.
The average yearly deer kill in Washington State is 26,000 deer a year.
In New York State which is smaller in square miles then Washington State the average deer kill is 220,000 deer.
Pennsylvania is smaller in square miles then New York has an average deer kill.of 330,000 deer.
It all boils down to habitat and deer management.
I live in Washington State and wouldn't pay a nickle to hunt there. It is expensive and they have a very small deer herd. I seen more deer here in Upstate New York yesterday then I have seen all year back in Washington State.
It is cheaper for me to buy my non-resident small game - big game combo license here in New York or Pensylvanis then it is to buy a resident hunting license in Washington State then you have to pay for all the different stamps or pay gor tag drawing.
Washington State can keep their deer licenses and tags.
I hunt where there are game animals to harvest.
A yearly air flight cost me $300 a year round trip and I get to deer hunt three & a half weeks and visit my family.
For $35 i can check in fifty pounds of boned out venison to take back to Washington.
By the way I quit useing tree stands over twenty years ago, but enjoy coming across them out in the woods and just think of the hunting stories that they could tell if they could talk.
I'm sure many on here feel the same way.