RE: Summit Goliath and Bending?
Your perfectly fine. Travis Turner (from Realtree) was on Monster Bucks 11 hunting out of one, and he is supposed to weigh right around 500 pounds.
Your stand has a 350# rating, but you have to take into account that "safety standars" are usually tested to 3 times the amount that they are rated. That stand probablly had 1050 pounds on it without any major malfunctions!