Wife deer hunting with me?

My wife is going to start deer hunting with me this year and I was wondering how we both would sit up in a tree ( without one of those huge 2 man ladder stands ). Has anyone tried this before?


How do they do it on tv?Wife deer hunting with me?
Action, I'm not to keen on using the double tree stands with new hunters. You just don't know how they are going to respond to seeing a deer, when a shot is made, or after wards trying to get down. When I'm hunting the upper timber country in the Rockies I use two separate tree stands set up side by side and secured to the tree with straps and a reinforced mounting rail. This is usually a 2x6 or 2x8 that I set both stand lower frames on. I adjust the height of these stands to give the second hunter a level of confidence in setting on the stand. Being in the tree and finding out that your wife, girlfriend, or brother in law is afraid of heights or gets the shakes when the wind blows is not a good time to have the stand maxed out on its height.





I've been on a bear hunt in Canada while a TV crew was filming, they set up 4 stands around the bait. One above the hunter for filming his perspective, one to the right and one offset to the right of that one in case the wind changed while they were filming an angle shot. Everyone on the crew was an experienced hunter and had been in many many tree stands and ladders rest. Good luck and good hunting.Wife deer hunting with me?
How they do it on TV is totally different than how it's done in real life. In real life, most deer are killed with the hunter on the ground.





Find you a great big tree, scrape out a bare spot, and the two of you sit up against it.








Edit:


You scrape the leaves and sticks out with your boot where you are sitting down.


That's the way it's done 100% of them time when you sit on the ground during deer and turkey season.


I guess you walk around the woods in the fall cursing the deer scrapes and turkey scratches too.
This is a tricky tree stand. My girlfriend doesn't hunt but loves to come out and watch the deer when she knows im only going for a big boy. I have special places set up so that we are in a very leafy or big evergreen. Her stand is always a tad bit higher and i make sure she gets in safetly first then bring her stuff up on a rope and hand them to her. If she is higher than she can see more and wont be in the way of any slight movements you will have to do to get a shot. Just make sure its a comfortable tree stand for her and that she knows not to make too much movement. As you are looking down from the front of the tree she should be a quarter of the tree to one side, the opposite side of your shooting eye. And then a couple feet higher. To tell you the truth the best scenerio is to just get her up in a tree stand in a different tree about 10 yards away.
I agree with both of your previous answers on this one. The way they do it on tv is with either a 2 man stand, or one above the other, or in two separate trees only a few feet apart. The platform is going to be your best solution here unless you have an extra treestand. In that case just keep her close to you, follow any regulations that apply. If you want to make the platform, then consider putting up a screen-blind to hide both of your movements. Remember she is new, and it isn't going to be easy for her to stay so still. It's hard even for some of the most experienced hunters. Take her on a test run, and make sure she can handle being up high. My good friend, an excellent ground hunter, can't stand being in a tree because he is scared of the height, and if a breeze blows, he dang near crushes the tree in two holding on.
There are two seaters with one ladder. You can build your own from wood.





I always build a wood platform with some 2x6 and 3/4 outdoor or marine plywood. Use wood steps works great. Paint or let it weather. Just find 2-3 trees close together. Total cost for wood about 40.00.
why is everyone getting a tuhumbs down? might as well give me one too, i don't even have to answer this question. is there a right answer to this question or what?!
Get a big room ground blind, with 2 chairs. Ground blinds are slightly warmer, movements are obscured, etc. I would also consider a shooting house.
get a 2 person stand and in the winter you can snuggle for heat.
You could consider a ground blind.





As for the answer above, don't ';scrape out'; one of our goals is it leave no trace that we where there.