The most common game animal in North America is the white-tailed deer and he is mainly hunted from tree stands. You need to get human scent ten or twelve feet off the ground.
The problem is that there is no totally reasonable way to draw and cock a crossbow from most tree stands. There's no totally good solution. You can haul a cocked crossbow into the treestand with a rope but you only ever have one shot.
I’ve killed dozens of deer, and most of them from ground level. Those pop-up blinds work quite well, and are safer and more convenient than tree-stands. Deer walk right up to them. As a plus, they offer total concealment, so the hunter can stretch, scratch an itch, etc, without spooking game. Most of them offer enough room for a crossbow.
I don’t use crossbows, but sometimes bowhunt out of pop-up blinds. Works like a charm.
well, since I want to do some bow hunting, I guess I could haul a longbow into a tree stand too, I’ve done some target shooting with a long bow and decided that drawing it in a tree blind would be more of a problem than with the crossbow.
I have no illusions that I am Robin Hood, or have the stalking skills of an Amerind or frontiersman.
Just want to try something different than the old reliable .270.
Where there is a will, there’s a way.
http://www.huntersfriend.com/products/archery/crossbows/cocking.html
In a perfect world, you only need ONE shot.