ORIGINAL: turkeyhunter85
95% of hunters that i personally know and talk to don't use a safety harness. never seen or personally know any one that has ever fallen out of a tree. and common sence was meaning don't do any thing stupid while in the tree, like drinking in the tree stand(personnally have a friend like that)
I teach hunting safety...More hunters are hurt from falling from a tree than shot...If those are the type hunters you hang around with, you might want to set your bar a little higher...
As far as you not knowing any who have fallen out of a tree, then I doubt if you have been deer hunting very long...Or live in and area where hunters hunt from the ground...
Use a little common sense, buckle up, while in the car and in the tree...
I spend 4 days last year looking for a local hunter that never came home from the hunt...We finally found him, by following the buzzards, he was under his tree stand...He didn't believe in a harness either.....