joedjr

Glad to read you were not hurt. I know of some major and crippling injuries and deaths due to falling out of a stand or falling stands.

In one case in my locale, the hunter fell asleep in his stand and was not hooked up. He survived but just barely. Left him partially disabled.

This season already, a hunter using only the chain on his hanging stand, leaned to the side and had the stand kick away from the tree. He died in the field after telling a fellow-hunter what happened.