RE: Climbing stand
From first hand experience I will say never leave your Summit in the woods.
Two years ago I bought a viper extreme ultra xls, one sweet stand loved it till the day I left it in the woods while hunting hogs this spring.
No a theif did not get it mother nature did. A really massive storrm blew through that nite and when I returned to the spot a tree fell on to the tree my climber was hanging on. THe other tree slid down the side of the tree taking my climber with it. My beloved Summit was now a backpacker style completly flat and mangled.
I was amazed that in the surounding 50 acres of woods only one tree fell and it was the one that got me.
So theives are not your only worry when leaving expensive equipment in the woods.
As a side note I did buy another viper for this year an X4.
With luck I wont have to buy another ever since I will treat this one with much better care.