We've all heard statistics about the number of hunters injured from falling out of treestands, but has anyone ever broken it down into homemade vs. manufactured treestands? I'm just wondering what % of the hunters that fall out of their stands fall out of them because they are homemade wooden stands that are poorly built and/or poorly maintained.

I've used homemade stands built by friends before and evenwhen they werewell-built and maintained, I never felt very safe getting in and out of them or when hunting from them. I can only imagine what a poorly built/maintained stand would be like.

FYI: Last year I bought a climbing treestand with safety harness and I've never felt safer in a tree.