What temp?

[Omega]

At what temp do you crank on the heat in your stand? I'm sitting here at 50, outside 47, and seriously considering busting out the portable buddy. I'm getting to be such a wuss. Last couple years my feet have started getting cold, especially at night, they used to be real warm, so I think my circulation is a bit off, though doc says I'm ok. I'm thinking it's because I have a heater available, otherwise I may have dressed a little warmer and it probably wouldn't be bugging me.

 

[DeerCamp]

I don't hunt with a heater, but plenty of mornings I've wished I did

 

[MUP]

They ain't no heat in a tree stand!

 

[Jcalder]

Anytime I get cold, doesn't matter. Since I built the hunting house I'll just wear pants, shirt and a hoodie. I'm not wearing all the extra bulk. Took me 2 years to burn a tank last time.

 

[Dennis]

If I was hunting with a heater and I felt cold I'd turn it on. I don't care what the temperature is.

 

[cecil30-30]

I thought I'd put a heater in my shooting houses but I have never felt the need. Sure it gets cold but I feel like just being in the enclosure is warm enough

 

[Pic IN the Casa]

When my son was nine, we hunted from a 2 man stand for a couple of days when it was 11 degrees. I tied a Mr Buddy to the shooting rail and that was alright with both of us.

I just bought some heated clothing from Tidewe. I will give yall a review at the duck season halfway point. Just got tired of being cold and/or so many layers it was stupid.

 

[MUP]

In all honesty, if I did have a shooting house of some sort, I'd turn the heat on to keep from getting too cold. But otoh, I've always felt that it was part of the hunting experience to weather the cold and see how long I could last up in a tree. Counting the minutes and telling myself "just 30 more minutes and I'll come down" 3 or 4 times before finally giving in and coming down.

 

[BuckWild]

I'm 65 and still hunt from tree stands.

No heater for me. The colder the better. Keeps all the honeycutts out of the woods.

 

[tntrkkllr]

If it's in the 20s sometimes I bring a heater ( if I'm in a box blind ) but normally just dress appropriately but my feet always get cold no matter what might invest in heated socks

 

[backyardtndeer]

They ain't no heat in a tree stand!

Yep. I do have one canvas wrapped home made steel stand that might hold a little heat from a buddy heater, but wouldn't be anywhere to put the heater. My son would probably accidently kick it out of the stand. I used to tolerate the cold a lot better than I do now. The medicines I am on for my heart probably don't help. Even still, I am usually ok down under freezing if there is no significant wind.

I believe that sometime after season is over I am going to pull down the one and only box blind I have, and overhaul it before next season. I need a better setup for my son.

 

[Snake]

Was going to build some sort of shooting house where I put up that last double stand because the tree has four trunks but I fell putting up the stand and ain't had the heart to do it . Did get the stand up bleeding and all but hadn't did anything else to it . If it gets too cold I'll just stay home

 

[megalomaniac]

I have never needed one, but will bring one for the girls when it's less than 25 degrees. They will stay in stand a couple hours longer with a heater than without

 

[DaveTN]

At what temp do you crank on the heat in your stand?

68. Just in case it drops to 67.

 

[BSK]

No heaters in our shooting houses.

 

[agelessssone]

I'm 65 and still hunt from tree stands.

No heater for me. The colder the better. Keeps all the honeycutts out of the woods.

Same here, hunt out of a treestand, (hangon).
76 years old, don't know how many more years I'll be doing this.

 

[MUP]

Same here, hunt out of a treestand, (hangon).
76 years old, do t k ow how many years I'll be doing this.

You give me hope friend! Loc ons is all I've ever hunted from since the early years of using a climber, and I would take my daughter's to hunt from two man ladder stands, but a loc on is my preference and bare essentials.

 

[agelessssone]

You give me hope friend! Loc ons is all I've ever hunted from since the early years of using a climber, and I would take my daughter's to hunt from two man ladder stands, but a loc on is my preference and bare essentials.

My stand has a seat but I never sit down. I want to be able to see 360°
Standing, I can see 270°, to see totally rearward, I'll slowly shift my feet and face backwards. 90% of the time, I can use the tree as a shooting rest.
Very rarely have to take a freehand shot.

 

[MUP]

My stand has a seat but I never sit down. I want to be able to see 360°
Standing, I can see 270°, to see totally rearward, I'll slowly shift my feet and face backwards. 90% of the time, I can use the tree as a shooting rest.
Very rarely have to take a freehand shot.

Sounds very familiar! I do sit tho, and shift on that little seat and twist my head around to almost see 360. That makes for a sore neck and shoulders tho.

 

[agelessssone]

About 5 hours is all I care to stand.
If it's the peak period of the first rut, then I'll sit for a bit because I don't want to miss a minute.
I've killed too many nice bucks midday.

 

[lung-buster]

I crank mine up soon as I get cold. I don't put on alot of layers if I'm going to be in a shooting house and I'm taking my boots off so I don't track mud in it.

 

[Wrangler95]

I'm 65 and still hunt from tree stands.

No heater for me. The colder the better. Keeps all the honeycutts out of the woods.

Great,I'm 69 and still climb in treestands!

 

[DoubleRidge]

If I'm in shooting house and plan to sit all day and its below freezing....I'll run a buddy heater to warm up...eat a snack....get comfortable then turn it back off....sitting there cold in a shooting house kinda defeats the purpose of having a shooting house...be comfortable and turn the heater on.

 

[MUP]

Heck I sat all day Friday in the loc on. THAT was uncomfortable. Then Sat hunted all day, just came down to switch stands b/c of the wind change.

This is the first time I've done that in over 20 years tho I'd say. Extenuating circumstances called for it tho.

 

[Scrooge57]

I'm 66 hunt out of shoot house no heat.

 

[Chiflyguy]

At what temp do you crank on the heat in your stand? I'm sitting here at 50, outside 47, and seriously considering busting out the portable buddy. I'm getting to be such a wuss. Last couple years my feet have started getting cold, especially at night, they used to be real warm, so I think my circulation is a bit off, though doc says I'm ok. I'm thinking it's because I have a heater available, otherwise I may have dressed a little warmer and it probably wouldn't be bugging me.

Yesterday sure chilled me.
Maybe the humidity?
It wasn't even that cold.

 

[Rakkin6]

They ain't no heat in a tree stand!

^^^This^^^

 

[Rakkin6]

At what temp do you crank on the heat in your stand? I'm sitting here at 50, outside 47, and seriously considering busting out the portable buddy. I'm getting to be such a wuss. Last couple years my feet have started getting cold, especially at night, they used to be real warm, so I think my circulation is a bit off, though doc says I'm ok. I'm thinking it's because I have a heater available, otherwise I may have dressed a little warmer and it probably wouldn't be bugging me.

Lol, not.all of us get to hunt from a presidential suite and have the option of a heater. Time to ranger up Sarge and deal with it. It's all in your mind. Lol

 

[hammer33]

Made a mini wood stove out of an old propane bottle for the big shooting shack. Sure is nice firing that up and putting a foil wrapped breakfast biscuit on the heater plate to warm.
Reached the age that I got nothing to prove anymore. Hunting is supposed to be fun, proving that I can outlast a polar bear has lost its appeal.

 

[Chickenrig]

In all honesty, if I did have a shooting house of some sort, I'd turn the heat on to keep from getting too cold. But otoh, I've always felt that it was part of the hunting experience to weather the cold and see how long I could last up in a tree. Counting the minutes and telling myself "just 30 more minutes and I'll come down" 3 or 4 times before finally giving in and coming down.

I agree Mup but as i get older i find my comfort zone decreases in range . I am like the pappa bear …… i like it just right
And yes i run my heater when i want to