tree stand angles

Bruce I totally disagree. If you are 50 yards from the tree stand to the target on a steep angle like shooting downhill from a tree to a target you may want to use your 40 pin a touch high. if you use your 50 you will shoot over it. The way they are saying get your distance level out from your stand with a range finder is the way to do it if your range finder does not have the compensator in it.

I will add that I believe some bow shooters do the adjustment instinctively and don't consciously adjust.

[BruceBruce1959]

50 yards is 50 yards whether it's from a treestand to target or ground to target, 50 yards is 50 yards
the Aim stays the same, you should aim at Vitals from stand level the same way you would from ground level.
This is what's always worked for me.
All I'm saying is the only thing that changes from a treestand vs. ground level is distance but 50 yards is 50 yards.

VT is different. maybe thats another way things are different there. lol. everywhere else adjust accordingly. maybe you are one of those guys that its instinct. did you ever shoot bows instinctively? i could never manage that.

[BruceBruce1959]

Here's what I'm saying. In this example the only thing that needs consideration is Distance. the Aim from the treestand (slightly high 10 yd. pin)
If this hunter is on the ground then he would need to aim the same way (slightly high 10 yd. pin)
But if the treestand to target or ground to target were both 50 yards, then both shots would use a 50 yd. pin with no compensation at all.
Does this make better sense? because I'm terrible at describing in text form. LOL

If you had a pin for every yard on your bow, in that pic you would use you 13 pin while on the ground. right? What I'm getting from what you are saying is you use the 15 pin from the tree. When I would say use the 13 pin from the tree. yes? no? or level out 13 yards is what buckshot, i think, was saying.

[BruceBruce1959]

Yes, 13 yd pin from ground.
and Yes 15 yd. pin from tree.

But we dont have that many pins, so in my diagram I would use my 10 yd pin and aim slightly high from 13 or 15.
Isn't that what you would do?

yeah thats what i thought you were saying and now i for sure can say i disagree and i think as do most bow shooters.

[BruceBruce1959]

ok ronn, how would you shoot that Deer in the diagram? from both places stand and ground?

i would shoot that deer using my 13 pin both from the ground and from the tree. even though the range finder says 15 yards while in the tree. with the compensating range finders it would say its 15 yards but shoot as if it was 13 while in the tree.