Whether to use a Climber, hangon that I leave in the tree or a hangon that I hang using Lone Wolf Climbing sticks and take down the stand and sticks everytime I huntis highly dependent in parton whether I am hunting public or private land, the area and the amount of pressure the spot is getting.
If I know the area contains a paticular treeor tree line that dosent offer and straight trees without branches that will not afford me to use a climber I will pack in an olderBaby Gorilla hangon stand I have with Lone Wolf Climbing sticks and hang the stand, hunt it and take it all down afetr the hunt and pack it out.
Keep in mind though that I hunt mostly public land where on some of them you are not allowed to leave stands in the woods and, I bowhunt very little on private land.
I hated the climber and all the work of hanging it and climbing and noise in the beginning but with practice I became very quiet with it and got used to the work of hanging it and climbing. I like the portability of the climber and the suprise effect on the deer. I also spray down my climber with DDW scent killer evertime I hunt with it and make sure I am as scent free as possible while hanging and climbing the stand.
I Always pack it out and I would never leave my climber on the base of the tree, Ive seen hunters do it and in fact I was walking a trail one day when Ispotted 3 Does, I had the wind in my favor and they hadnt spotted me so I watched the3 does eyeing a climber a hunter left around the base of a tree, they didnt like what they saw or smelled and soon spooked and ran fromthe area.
On public landin the past Ileaned more towards the hangon stands until one day I had a stand in a tree when another hunter came and hung a stand maybe 50 yards from mine, while I was Bowhunting there I watched a huge Buck chase a Doe across the river and they were headed my way.
As I stood and prepared for the shot the Doe stopped at the other hunters stand and I watched her strech out her neck and sniff the stands step and she imediatly spoked and vered off course and took the big buck with her out of my range.[:@]After that day I made my transition to a climber stand.
So for me after witnessing the above events in the woods it was Lesson Learned
I have almost exclusively used my climber on public land for the last 3 years.
On private land I took my largest Archery Buck scoring in the 190's while using my climber and on Public land it has worked out awesome ,with me taking myother 3largest Archery Bucks and a bunch of Does from my climber.
And on this paticular Private land I was the first and only hunter on the property for the entire week,So all the stands were descented and fresh haven never been hunted that yearAnd only 2 Archery Does, and one missed Archery 11 point buckfrom hangon stands on private land, but there were several other deer that I could of taken but they were either to small of bucks or does ,which I already took 2 does that week and didnt have the room to transport them home in my vechicle.

Kind of interesting that the paticular University owned Public Park property I bowhunt last year there was 65 bowhunters allowed to bowhunt the property and only 13 bucks were taken on the property and of the 13 bucks taken the majority were taken from climber's.