Wrong time to decide on a stand. You need to buy one in the spring and take the summer getting used to it. You have no idea what using ones like and they all act differently. You also want to buy a harness and use one and have no idea how to use one of those either.

Your asking for trouble. You'll be one confusion after another just getting to the top. Confusion kills. Maybe if you hunt out of the same tree all the time you'll get used to everything pretty quick, but that's just silly to do.

Climbers slip if you don't know what your doing not to mention few practice in bad weather, but they sure do hunt in it. Do you think drawing a bow on a climber is like standing in front of a target? It isn't and takes your whole body as a unit knowing exactly where everything is without seeing it. That takes practice.

I've borrowed stands away from home. I'm on pins and needle's and I climb all the time. Stands are not the same. As far as construction goes the summits are the beginners choice. Structurally very sound and the teeth grip well. Hard to not use right. Once you get some experience a lighter more compact climber will be wanted, but that means your sacrificing the above qualities. You'll be ready.

Get yourself a piece of plywood the size of the base and see how small a world you'll be standing on. Be sure and ad in all the straps and crap that will trip you up. People fall from carelessness, period. Careless people are careless with their equipment, Summits it seems create stands to compensate for careless people, but they can only do so much.

Put a small ball under the plywood and balance. That's what it's like on a stand. Now get all excited and try and shoot something. You think you can head out in to the woods, hang your butt 20 up and do that without pactice? Forget about it!