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Lone Wolf weight reduction...

st3dnut

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Anyone here try drilling holes in Lone Wolf climbing sticks like Beast Sticks to lighten them?

Would this compromise the strength/integrity of the stick?


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Usi05

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Drilled out a ton of holes on my 6061 this week for weight reduction on my DIY sticks. I made one stick out of spare 6061 without drilling.

Set both up on tree at like 3 feet and jumped up and down. Couldn’t tell a difference between either.

Definitely will be curious about long term but I’m pretty certain you could drill out some of LW stick without compromising function of aluminum


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CZMark

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I did it with an API I intended to use for one-stick climbing. For the amount of time (hours) and energy spent, the weight reduction wasn't really worth it.
 

raisins

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Drilled out a ton of holes on my 6061 this week for weight reduction on my DIY sticks. I made one stick out of spare 6061 without drilling.

Set both up on tree at like 3 feet and jumped up and down. Couldn’t tell a difference between either.

Definitely will be curious about long term but I’m pretty certain you could drill out some of LW stick without compromising function of aluminum


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How much weight did you save?
 

SG843

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Just got done with mod this week. Have not hunted them yet. Have bounced on one hard enough for me to have confidence that it will hold 200lbs without issue.
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