By the way, we just had an article in our local news talking about a bowhunter whose life was saved by a safety harness. He was 23 feet up in a treestand when an 8 point walked by in range. Pulled the bow back and snap!his bowbroke apartjust above the riser. Next thing the hunter knows he is hanging from his stand, survived just fine due to a safety harness.

This is what I mean about mechanical parts failing, and why it is so important to wear a harness. I don't think many people fall because they just forget where they are and step off into the other side...

I also know of somebody who had a carbon arrowsplit apart when he shot it, and had some of the arrow go through his bow hand, actually bled quite badly. This did not happen up in the stand, but at the target range, luckily.