BigSugar - Glad to hear you had your harness on buddy!! Tell you what, that's a good eye opener for me... I'm very good about putting on a harness when I'm in a hang on - but NOT all that good when I'm in a ladder stand - I have just always felt safer - but again, your expierence points to playing it safe ALL the time....
Had a great sit tonight! Even though I didn’t have a deer within several hundred yards….. I saw a fair amount of deer including a couple of bucks piling into a hay field about half a mile from my stand… No real way to setup on them on their way to the field so I’m thinking about taking my ground blind and decoy and setting up next to one of the round bales in the field… Figure I shouldn’t spook them to bad even if things don’t go to plan AND even if that’s the case, I’ll just push them towards the cover around my other stands….