ORIGINAL: gzg38b
ORIGINAL: SouthernStrut56
You would have to pay me to use this thing. This product is about the dumbest thing I've ever seen, IN MY OPINION.
Funny because I feel the exact same way - about climbing stands. You couldn't give me one for free. Too bulky, noisy, and heavy to carry3/4 amile into the big woods. And the trees around me tend to havethis thing calledbranches that would make a climbing stand a huge PITA. No thanks. To each his own I guess.
I have personally let three people try my tree saddle, and all three bought one afterusing mine. One of the guysI know hunts with a longbow from the saddle because his climbing stand bar interferes with drawing the longbow.
My climber makes no noise whatsoever after a good ratchet strap is put across it. It comes on and off my back easily, and goes on the tree in less than 2 minutes, quietly. I can usually climb about 30 feet up and get settled in about 5 minutes. The entire process after I take it off my back to gettin settled inusually takes less than 10 minutes. And it depends on whether or not I have to CUT those "little things called branches" with a little thing we like tocall a LIMBSAW down here. And unless you have had some kind of surgery or you wear girl panties, you oughta be able to put a 25 lb stand on your back and walk through the woods. If I can walk up and down the steep ridges at my place with a stand on my back and gun or bow in my hand, anybody in good health oughta be able to also. BUT again, to each his own, I just won't be buying one because my stand and my limbsaw work perfectly. By the way, I've had mornings where I've made noise puttin the stand on the tree and climbing up the tree, and still seen deer. Guess it all depends on where you hunt and what noises deer usually hear. I'm beside a train track, construction area back up the road, and a sawmill, so there's a good bit of noise usually.