Finally a topic worth responding to!

I have two for my son and I. They work well enough. I didn't plan to shoot when with my ten year old and I hunted this past year, he had two shots from these stands. I scrunched to the side well enough for him to shoot both times. We sit very comfortably next to each other waiting for something to happen. Set up is not too difficult and I can set them to a tree myself, with no help, in fifteen minutes. One day, my son missed a small buck at twenty yards and the deer moved off to thirty and looked around for what happened. My son, still standing, watched me miss the same buck after getting my bow off the hook and shooting. I had to shoot over the side rail and that was like bending to shoot under a limb.

I like them and you can't beat the price. One even blew out of the back of my truck on Route 80 and was hit a glancing blow by a tractor trailor. I took off the top rail, which was destroyed, and we still use it. I do like the rail better but it limits the shots to the left and right with a bow. Gun hunting, anything goes. I never put the front of the rail on. It is made to slip on or off, so you don't have to use it for safety or stability. I wanted the front rail for a gun rest but is is too far out to use that way.

That is about it. I have two and they work great for us.

Greg