I hunt from a climber stand and love it for one reason. I can move around on deer if I'm only seeing does I move are if the wind is wrong I can move to a new location and if i see a buck coming out to far from me are going around my stand I move. I also can take most of my sent out with me with my stand. I don't hunt public land. I find that most of my big bucks that I have taken are on first time stands. As far as noise it must be a good sound my climber makes because I have had buck come in just as I'm climbing into the tree are just after lots of times. I thing some time they think it's two buck fighting are a buck rubbing a tree. The buck I shot this year I wasn't in the tree ten min. and he came down the run to me like he was looking for some thing and he found it. A arrow through both lungs