RE: build your own or buy?
 

Bump.

-Mike

RE: build your own or buy?
 

I have invested in 2 climbers and 5 strap on stands my experience with perment stands is that deer get used to them being there and tend to avoid them... Not to say that one person has not killed a deer year after year in the same tree... just that to consistatly see deer of high quality you have to keep moving with the deer... and the stands out today are so affordable, quite, comfortable... and most of all SAFE...

RE: build your own or buy?
 

Since the boys around my place like to steal store bought stands. I have started makeing my own climbing sticks. I buy a 16' 4x4 and drill 3/4" holes every 14" apart. Then about 8'and again about a foot from the top I drill a 1/4" hole to put a cable thru and clamp it togeather, around the tree. When I know I'm going to hunt one of these stands, I carry enought one foot sections of pipe to get up to my stand. When I leave I take my pipe sections back in a bucket.

RE: build your own or buy?
 

MJL927,

Those stands sound great. Wondering if you had any pictures of them you could e-mail me?? Thanks

RE: build your own or buy?
 

I only use store bought climbers if I'm going up a tree. The only wooden stands I'll get in are shooting houses built on 4x4's. When I was younger and more foolish I built many a wooden stand hanging off of or between trees. They are mostly unsafe and only last a couple of years before they rot becoming completely unsafe. I've had a couple collapse with me, it's a miracle I wasn't seriously hurt. I know a couple of guys that are now paralyzed because wooden stands collapsed on them. It ain't worth it.