The best thing about them is the ease of which you can shoot behind the tree you're sitting in. It's really difficult to do anything past 180 degrees left-right in one of my single ladder stands....
Hmmm. Noted. I messed my back up 10 or so years ago by twisting around backwards around the base of a tree I was sitting at to shoot a deer that snuck up directly behind me. Only a .308, but the recoil in that position... yowzer. Woulda been extra bad if I'd had to hobble down from a tree stand with my back hurting like that.
Understood..... And afraid of heights here..... So my solution is a no go....
But a decent pop up blind is another option and I use them often......
Any suggestions for brand, etc. ? I looked at a few that advertised themselves as being tall enough to stand in. Not for this guy. And definitely not with a drawn bow.
There was a time when people used cloth diapers and washed them. You could save alot towards your stand that way. I am only 52 and though I never had any kids of my own I can remember changing relatives little ones and putting the cloth diapers in a diaper pail to be washed.
Lol, thanks
The diapers are just a euphemism for all the money that drains into the kiddos. Resps, sitters, car seats, clothes they outgrow before even wearing them, and food. Ugh, the food. One's allergic to cows milk protein, the other to eggs, and the wife gluten. I live in a milk/butter/cheese/chocolate/egg/mayo/bread/taste free home. I feel like we're a bunch of hippie vegans. Vegan carnivores, mind you.
All this hippie taste-free granola crap costs a small fortune!
Im 6' 4" and used to go around 250 when I first got into bow hunting. I think how you plan to hunt from the stand is as important as the stand itself. I have one of the first lone climbers. Its a ##### to use with size 15 boots, and the seat it too narrow and too close to the tree. My feet take up the whole foot platform. Rotating side to side while standing is near impossible. If you have to go full draw, youre so close to the tree that your rear elbow ends up in the trunk, so you have to lean awkwardly while at draw when bow hunting. Shotgun or rifle from the seated position is fine, but as soon as you have to stand and turn, your big clown feet cause problems.
Wanna buy it? lol
Mind you, I've shot a pile of deer from it, but youve got to be extra cautious in how you use it.
I love my home made 4'x4' platforms built on skids and chained up to the tree.
I have a buddy that's a big dude, and he uses a tree harness. It like a giant diaper that you strap to the tree. Super comfortable, and no worries about falling.
Cheers
Hah! Salesman of the year right here folks!
I truly appreciate the review.
So KJ I guess its some sort of out of the box version eh?
Well... Yeah it's kinda looking that way Cam. The main spot I want to set up in is a little over a km from where I can drive to, and there's no trails at all. So it would be quite a bugger to lug skids or lumber back there though thick bush the whole way. It's not my property, so I don't know how the owner would feel about me felling a few small trees to use as lumber.
Maybe a decent ground blind would be a compromise.
Hmmm... :-/
