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I mainly use my climber, it give me so many more options. I have a fair amount of hang ons and my father likes ladder stands since he's getting olderbut I find my hang ons I always want to move to another spot and ladder stands are so loud while trying to get in position for the shot. I know climbers aren't the quietest while climbing, but there has been so many times that I've climbed a tree made a fair amount of noise and either seen deer not spooked while going up the tree or very shortly after settleing in. In fact, I tore my acl a few years back and after the surgery my first time out in my climber I probably made more noise than ever getting up a tree in a hardwoods, about half way up I notices two does feeding at about100 yards out. I don't know if it's because I hunt central Wisconsin where it's fairly populated, but I don't think noise is as big of a deal as people make it, and if you take your time, noice is minimal.

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I like using loc - on's because I feel more sucure in them and they are easy to set up and take down.

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Loggy climber for me. It isnt the most comfortable stand but hunting public land in the mountains, some of my spots are a 2 hr hike in. My Loggy weighs in at right at 10lbs. and that means alot when I go to the more remote spots.
Lock ns come up missing almost every time I leave one. Even with locks on them. Theifs will find away to get em down.

RE: wHAT KINDA STAND YOU HUNT OUT OF MOST
 

ladders, then permanents, then hang ons

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Loc Ons! They will fit in a variety of trees.

Dan

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Lock-ons mainly , and then a Summit Climber.

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Hangons mostly though I will again be acquiring another Lone Wolf climber soon. I have a few specific spots in fencerows, along field edges, and in some thick nasty stuff that require sticks and a hangon so I'll be using my LW Assault and climbing sticks a lot.

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I have two ladder stands that I use in areas that I want to scout out and can't climb with the climber.

I primarily have loc ons, about 14 or so. The loc ons go into trees that I know I will hunt often, most of them can't accomodate a climber and it takes too long to monkey with a climber compared to climbing right into the tree with a loc on.

For areas where there is a lot of stand theft or where we rarely hunt I use the old climber (API).

As for cost you gotta know where to look. I use a lot of smaller loc on, the 18x24" ones which I can buy for less than 30 bucks off season at stores like Dick's around here. I also capitalized on the closeout section of Meijers several years ago and bought loc ons for 8-24 bucks. I do have some larger loc ons as well but have found the smaller ones to be less creaky in cold weather.

All of my bucks have come out of loc ons;)

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I have about 6 hang ons and that is it. I have no problem walking in with it on my back beforelight and setting up. With a GOOD set of screw ins, hanging a stand is much, much easier than what many guys make it out to be.

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Summit Viper. Just started getting into using a ground blind last yr. Never seen anything though. We'll see how it goes this yr.