the haul line
#4
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Harford Co Maryland USA
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I've done it both ways over the years. It's a lot easier to just let it hang there so it won't get tangled up and to save time. However, you contaminate it each time your pull the bow up or lower it so I am looking at what others do.
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2004
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I pull it to the tree and wrap it around the bottom step, so it is handy when I get there in the darkness. I have had deer chew my rope till it was 5 feet off the ground and all tattered when I leave it dangling in the air.
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Warren PA USA
Posts: 1,512

I let it hang. Scent shouldn't be an issue with it as it's washed and kept clean. It's never touched without a gloved hand and it only touches my bow otherwise. Iv had deer like the thing in the past as well. Not sure why, but it happens occaissionally.
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 3,236

I pull it to the tree and wrap it around the bottom step, so it is handy when I get there in the darkness. I have had deer chew my rope till it was 5 feet off the ground and all tattered when I leave it dangling in the air.
When I'm in the stand I pull it up and just bunch it up on the floor of my stand.
#10

I leave mine out in the tree all year and only touch it with gloved hands so my scent shouldn't be a problem.
Last season I tied a scent pad with hot doe urine to the line and brought it up halfway to blow in the breeze
I forgot about it being there and a little 4point scared the crap out of me. He snuck in downwind and when I heard a noise under the tree I see this little buck trying to climb the tree to get at it![&:]
Last season I tied a scent pad with hot doe urine to the line and brought it up halfway to blow in the breeze
I forgot about it being there and a little 4point scared the crap out of me. He snuck in downwind and when I heard a noise under the tree I see this little buck trying to climb the tree to get at it![&:]