I have a brother-in-law who was a little over-confident in his ability to stay on his climber without a safety harness. I stress it once to him but he just kinda laughed it off almost as if safety harnesses were like training wheels.

Anyway, this passed weekend we were out doing some doe hunting but the day turned out to be fruitless. At dusk I got down from my tree and headed his way.As I arrived, he was climbing down when all of a sudden... SNAP, POP, BANG, CRASH!!!

The bottom half of his Lone Wolf broke away from the upper half (plastic clip broke) while he was about 12 feet up and sliding down the tree he came. Clawing and gripping the tree trunk did nothing as he slid about 7 feet, landed as the half of the climber bit and caught. He then fell backwards followed by a half back-flip. Luckily his feet were stilllocked in the climbing mechanism which stopped him from completing his backflip onto his neck.

So there he was hanging upside down helpless with his feet locked into the climbing mechanism. It was at this point, I ran over to see if he was alright. When he said that he was, I thought about letting him hang there while I finished my lecture from a previous hunt. But no I couldn't do that so I just helped him up and suggested he take my advice about a safety harness.

Wear your harnesses fellas!!!