Glad your better ManoThefall, I remember reading the thread about your accident, good luck healing the rest of the way. I fell out of a stand a few years back, i was drawing back on a nice 10 point when the old stand collapsed, i knew the stand was in bad shape but was to "busy" to fix it and thought i'd be careful and get one more year out of it. After i went down i thought the arrow stuck me as i was bleeding, fortunately a branch just cut me. I just got bruised and cut, but learned a valuable lesson the hard way also. Some guys get to busy with things and can neglect safety to get out hunting. They're some bad storys out there with tree stand falls. Champlain Islander, did your friend get paralyzed?