1/22/2024 0 Comments Tree stands for bow huntingI hang 20 or more lock-ons with portable sticks each year and can do it quickly, sometimes in a single trip up the tree. The Lone Wolf Custom Gear D’Acquisto 2.0, a premium, ultralight hang-on with a comparably sized platform, plus four climbing sticks and straps, weighs a little over 21 pounds. I’m not saying it’s any sort of advantage, but it’s not something that causes me to lose sleep.Īs for weight, my Open Shot-or a similar model like the Lone Wolf Assault climber-weighs about 15 pounds. I’ve “rattled in” enough deer with a climbing stand to suspect that it’s actually a pretty natural noise. Scaling a tree with a climbing stand does indeed make sound-but one that’s not unlike a buck rubbing its antlers. Metal clanks and pings are as easy to make against a climbing stick as a climbing stand. Some say climbers are too heavy and noisy, but that’s just not true. Before you start climbing, make sure to have your safety harness attached properly to the tree. When I need to set up somewhere new in a hurry, it works. I replaced the cables on it once, but otherwise, it’s just as it arrived in the box. I’ve been using the same Summit Open Shot for more than a decade. But for most bowhunters, I still say a climbing stand is the more practical choice. So what’s the best way to be mobile? Tree saddles and ultralight hang-on stands are certainly trendy and work well if you’re comfortable using them. Besides that, the ability to act on recent scouting intel and set up quickly is one of the best ways to shoot a deer on public or private land, particularly when hunting feeding patterns early or late in the season. Public-land hunting-where permanent stands frequently aren’t allowed-is also a hot topic. Being mobile is a hot topic in deer hunting right now-and for good reason. If I had hunted the ladder stand, I don’t think I’d have killed that buck. The arrow buried to the fletching, and the buck crashed 20 yards away. He was facing me almost head-on, so I held at the crease of his neck and shoulder and let fly. At 15 yards he stopped to stare at the ladder stand. He ambled into view an hour after daybreak as if he’d reviewed the script the evening before. I’d gotten pictures of a tight, heavy 8-pointer with a palmated beam the previous morning. I figured my chances of getting drawn were better if I hunted from the nosebleed section of the canopy, so I scaled 30 feet up a nearby poplar. ![]() And the deer had been shot at for three months. But it probably would’ve been a waste of time, too. ![]() We had already hung a perfectly good ladder stand in the pasture corner, and hunting it would’ve been a hell of a lot easier than fiddling with a climbing stand in the dark.
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