HOW TO SHOOT A BOW FROM A TREE STAND (New Vertical Stands)

All right today's video we are going to kind of cover all the basis on how I like to set up and shoot from a tree stand. We've done this video before out of saddle but I've never done it out of a tree stand. There's a couple key things that are really important to consider that just kind of help you in the moment make a good shot. We're just on solid ground right now I'm going to shoot a couple because I haven't shot in a couple days so we're going to rip a few and you know obviously when you're on flat ground everything is neutral like your anchor point's in the same spot. Everything is in the same spot and how it should be on level ground and you know over the years shooting just like competition archery and field archery and 3d archery and total archery challenges you're constantly dealing with ups and downs, side hills, weird things that really affect your shot and especially you know the number one important thing when shooting from a tree stand is having a good range finder that has angle compensation. You know when you're dealing with those shots like maybe you're on a big side hill and you're actually shooting like way down the side hill you know your ranges can really get messed up if you got a pretty steep angle and you're always you know I've heard this before it's like when you're uphill you add distance and when you're downhill you cut distance well you're always cutting distance off but if you get a good range finder this is the Leupold RX full draw 3. I have the RX full draw 5 too. All good range finders that set up to your bow to cut well. So you know when you're shooting on flat ground you're not cutting everything you're ranging it's a flat distance everything is neutral point but it's always good to get up in a tree stand every now and again and actually practice. Everything's still on that's good. Bow's been in and out of trucks the past couple weeks so obviously I'll talk about the differences when we get up in the tree and start shooting angles but your anchor point is the most consistent thing to make sure you're looking through the peep sight correctly and the number one thing out of anything is looking through the peep sight centering it up to center around your pin not only your housing but your pin as long as your peep sight is around your pin perfectly your arrow is going to hit where you're aiming at. The second thing when dealing with shooting out of tree stands and everything is torque but we're gonna we're gonna get up in this stand here and uh kind of go through a couple things look at Always use proper footwear while climbing up stands. So obviously when you're shooting out of a tree stand you're up high shooting down low there's no upward shooting but it's all kind of the same the same thought process when you're shooting up or down. So I think the the best thing to start out with this is is kind of to talk about the most common bad things that people do. When you're aiming down low it's really easy to throw your whole anchor off throw your whole form off and because of that you could torque it super bad um especially when shooting broadheads the arrow flight is very very affected by just any little torquing movement face pressure on the string anything you know sometimes those mysterious misses can really come from not practicing on a tree stand. The first thing that people really do is when they draw back all they do is move move their arm straight down they don't move their whole torso they don't move their whole shoulders all they do is move their arm straight down what that does is it just brings everything out of alignment and what you're trying to keep is make sure everything is in alignment so um you hear people talking about bend at the waist and you bend at the waist and you keep everything in line your anchor points in line you're essentially keeping that horizon line with your waist and that is true but that is a very like dumbed down version and the easy way to kind of comprehend it as long as you bend at the waist you can always keep your anchor point in line and everything but if i was aiming straight down and bending out my waist i'd be falling out of this tree stand there's just no possible way to actually bend at the waist properly so what's a little bit you know better to kind of say that is is always keep your shoulders aligned as long as your shoulders you draw a straight line through your shoulders as long as those either aiming up or aiming down are always in line your torso doesn't necessarily need to be bending like crazy because not only are you putting a bunch of muscles at stress when you bend at your torso but it's just not really necessary all you need is your shoulders to be straight in line so you can see let's just say i have a shot way down here i draw back i'm really not even paying attention to the horizon i'm just making sure my shoulders are in line now i'm not bending at the waist i'm just making sure that my shoulders and my movement is all in line and what that does is it allows me to still anchor relatively the same it allows me to still look through my peep sight and ultimately just have the same form as if i was on the ground so that's kind of step number one and what a lot of people mess up about is they just point at what they're shooting compared to bending and keeping their shoulders aligned george riles always said no matter where the target is you want to point to it first and then bring everything in so you point to the target and keep everything aligned and bring everything in so i think that's just really important as long as you kind of have that mentality whatever you're shooting at you can kind of just keep everything the same um we're right by a road so i apologize if you hear that number two i kind of already touched on but it's just being prepared number one of being prepared is to have a good bow hook and have it right over top of your lap where all you have to do is just grab it and go and the second thing that i'll say along with being prepared is having some sort of release that can hang on your d-loop or have it around your wrist just ready to go at all times you know i shot it pinned for a long time before we came out with like the hunting bracket with everything where you can keep it around your wrist i was always like fumbling in my pockets and it's almost cost a couple couple opportunities so having your bow at the ready at all times is like huge like i think it's underrated every time you get in the stand the first thing i always do is bow bow bow bow because you never know when your opportunity is actually going to show up next thing is actually like shooting positions where you know what am i doing i actually love sitting i do not want to get up off of my stand and most of that reason is just movement so if we see a deer i have my shooting lane set up mainly in this quadrant over here i don't really want to shoot over here i can but it's mainly this quadrant over here and i just want to remain sitting and that doesn't change my form that doesn't change anything if and if anything i feel like it makes it a little bit more stable if you do have to stand up what i love especially about this vertical stand especially is it's a giant platform so it's super comfortable and the seat can go up super quiet but then that opens up this whole quadrant over here you can easily spin and shoot and the same form same principles apply of just making sure your shoulders are aligned and ultimately as like i was saying when we're on the ground as long as your peep sight is aligned with the pin it's going to hit where you're aiming as long as you don't have contact clothing face pressure torque it's gonna hit where you're aiming at so i guess that goes where we got four now point number four is practice like you play i've i've done an article for matthews on this before and i've talked about it several other times but practicing like you play is super important just like we're up here we're trying everything out we got our safety harness on we have a vinyl harness on what i would really really love everyone to do is put heavy clothing on and then shoot you don't really realize you know your collars or your neck collars and everything when you're in a situation and pointing down and twisting around trying to shoot around the tree it really becomes quite challenging if you've never really done it before so practicing like you play is huge and on top of that is shooting actually down like it takes a little bit of time to get used to so if you're newer really haven't done a lot out of it get up in a tree stand because it just is a confidence thing if you know you're confident and can do it it's going to be night or day when you're in the moment i feel like that's probably pretty good about tree stand tips um these are the new vertical stands we haven't done a whole lot on them because we've just been getting a few of them but we got them all out on the farm now really love the giant platform for all of the reasons i just talked about just shooting from them is so much better more enjoyable and safer honestly so we're going to shoot a couple you know it's super pull off the hook draw back align your shoulders bada bing bada boom it would help if i had my sight at 20 lucky i still kept it on there but it's not rocket science people there's no there's no over complicating it it's still a simple thing it's all about staying aligned you don't have to bend at your waist you don't have to feel like you're falling you just have to make sure your shoulders are aligned and you're bending but you don't have to over bend and that is a problem that i also have it's a little lower than i want you want it to be high enough to where you're not hitting it with your bow but low enough to where it's right in your lap and that is a dead deer that went right where i was aiming so now if we were standing same concepts apply another thing too like with tree stands and shooting out of trees in general is make sure your bow is not hitting anything make sure you know like you after you shoot your limbs not hitting stuff your sidebars aren't hitting stuff i notice you know sometimes when you're sitting down you can kind of be tight to the tree if you're spinning around so you just got to be careful with that too you know take the extra second to look like just like that i'm kind of hitting that branch there shoulders aligned feels good center of the peep gone and for distance this is this is pretty close but yeah it's reading six yards because of the cut it's probably actually like 12 15 but because of the cut straight down it's six which i'm still hitting right on it for six yards which is good there you got it guys a couple tips to hopefully help you guys be a little bit more prepared when your tree stand hunting this fall in the woods with your bow and arrows in hand go have fun go shoot some stuff we'll catch you guys in the next one