Iuse mine all the time and have taken maybe 50 deer out of it. I can get in the wood, put it up quit, move around on deer, take most of my scent out when I leaveand play the wind.The sound it dose make climbing tree mustbe natural in the woods. I have a number of times bucks come in to me just as get in the tree are come in when I"m only 1/2 way up the tree. I think they some times they think it sound likea other buck scrapping antlers on a tree and come in to see. I have a old API and a couple of other climbers. I'm not tree stand poor I have a garage full of different portable stands but, alway end up using my clamber 95 % of the time because I move around allot to get shots at bucks and to see them. If I set in one place and see only does are not a thing I move and not wasting my time setting there. If a buck using the run and I don't see him I move closer to his bedding area to get a shot before it gets dark. I love my climber stands and kill lots of buck out of them.