DougMD,

I get what you are saying and agree with some of the adjustments. I'm 58 and been hunting a long time. Use a harness religiously and look at it this way. That darned SOP harness is going to cost me a shot someday, but better to miss one shot in a lifetime than trying to maybe try to take the same shot laying on the ground with a broken back.

Let me put it another way. Do you have life insurance? What for? You gotta die to collect. Maybe you got a family to protect. Wearing the harness is the same thing--protecting the family, and yourself if the inevitable happens.