Before I built my box tower stand, I hunted from a ladder stand with a shooting rail that pulled down in front of me. I'd sometimes lay the crossbow over the shooting rail to get it outta my lap for a while, but that involved a lot of movement, so I had a bow holder from my old lock on stand days that used a screw and wing nut attachment to fastened to the floor of a lock on stand. It bolted to the stand floor right in front between your feet and held a compound bow vertically for fast and little movement retrievebility. Now my crossbow fits right into this little crooked shaped holder by the butt of the crossbow and you just reach out slowly and pull the crossbow slightly up and back to you while lowering the front part of the bow down. It sounds like a lot of movement I know, but it really isn't. I have never had a deer bust me for movement yet while using this holder and it's position. I hate holding a crossbow in my lap. I last about 3 minutes doing it. It must weight 1000 lbs after 3 minutes cause that's my record holding one. In my box stand, it's stirrup down vertically, against the wall under my shooting window. On my Honda going into woods for my stand, it's the old BuddyBo homemadecrossbow holder on the rear carrier. I don't take no junk from no heavy crossbow. LOL.
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