tree stand noise?
 

my buddy gave me his hold climber, that he didnt use, its pretty comfy and not too heavy about 24-23 pounds, but my only issue is i dont know if it is too loud or not. (the reason i dont know is cause i am a newb i am gonna be in my third year of hunting)

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practice with it in the back yard. it will be loud attaching and climbing with it, but once you get up and rested in the tree, see if it makes any creeks or sounds when you stand up/sit down, or turn side to side.

climbers are great because you can pick a tree on the spot and go up, but they are loud and take time while climbing. the idea is to get to the spot an hour earlier than you wouls if there was a ladder stand there, so you have time to let things quiet down and settle down after the sound made climbing.

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Buy you a can of liquid foam and squirt small shots in the tubing...

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Many of todays new climbers are very quiet. If an old climber is making noise....work with it as best you can, but if it continues to make alot of noise, then do not use it.

My climber is virtually noise free once I stop climbing.

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I use Pam cooking spray. It quiets down the squeaks and causes no smells that alarm the deer. What kind is it?

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The PAM idea seems a good one, I've used vegetable oil before also. I now use graphite exclusively, doesn't rot, or turn colors. By the by, if your stand makes "any" noise once you're up, I would get rid of it.

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it only makes noise when i am climbing, but the noise isnt creakin, its the noise of it goin up the tree.

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It'll be fine for now. Until you get used to using it, the grunting and groaning from learning will cover up any noise the stand makes. :D

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You fix that noise, you'll be a millionaire!!!

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ha ha:D

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OAk trees nad tulip popular make the least noise----Cherry makes the most. I pick trees that i will know will make the least noise if possible. Just a thing i always do.

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that is annoying, I think all stands creak/make noise, climbers walking to yoru stand with it on your back, metal banging, can be a pain. can try to sliente them up, bt good luck, in some waysI wonder if were bette roff hunting on the ground. course I like being up in the air in the morning before light, boogey man can get you on the ground! I've seen him a few times too! buy a ladder, leave it out, lock it up. also maybe there's a reason he gave it to you?

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If you are getting noise going up a tree do this....every time you move the top portion of your stand up...slowly but surely push down until it slowly tightens up on the tree so that when you push down with your arms to pull the bottom section up, you wont have any of that scraping noise. Slowly pull the bottom section up and then slowly press down so that the bottom section slowly tightens down without noise. I find that when I just slow down with my climber, that is just alot more quiet.

Another trick is to put some pieces of camoflauge duck tape around the parts of your tree stand that often clank and make noise...it also serves to break up the outline of your treestand.

good luck

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It won't bother them...I've had them walk in while I was climbing...

To hunt them, you have to be near them, a climber is great because you can change locations quickly and easily...

Be careful which trees you climb...I like poplars the best, but have also climbed pines and both white and red oaks...

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No, he aint like that he dosnt hunt as much as he use to, and he likes to hunt on the ground.