Originally Posted by
7.62NATO
Summit tells you to strap the safety strap around the two pieces horizontally. That makes no sense. They mate together VERTICALLY (i.e. one piece slides into the other from the top), so that's how I strap 'em together! I run the strap vertically, and this clinches them down on one another and they cannot move around to make noise.
this! also it helps to get the lightest stand...going in its not bad but having to come out and possibly dragging a deer it makes a big difference..