Well tonight's hunt was interesting.. it was my first hunt from my sit drag, first hunt with the one stick method, and I learned a few things. First, I've one sticked in my yard a handful of times. It's surprisingly easy. But that's on a straight 10" dia pine. I used my homebrew stick I made, with 2 step aider I made, use the top of my stick and a homebrew stepp as a platform, everything worked flawlessly at home. Well tonight, I climbed a majorly crooked oak with limbs about every 6'. Took me almost an hour to climb to about 16'. I got there and said to heck with it, that's where I'm hunting, too tired to fight it anymore. I learned that a couple ropeman's are in my near future. Prussiks get way to tight when hanging from them. I learned that a 2 step aider on a crooked tree is NOT for me! After cussing under my breath about about the climb, as soon as I get situated in my sit drag, using a limb, sticks, and homebrew stepp as a platform(of course not at the same height) I figured the hunt would suck. Well before I even got my release on, there is a doe about 15yds from me and never knows I'm there. I'm dancing and struggling, and she's just eating acorns like nothing ha. Well since I don't get much time to hunt these days I wasn't passing on her, I managed to get in an extremely uncomfortable and sketchy position and take the shot, doe is down. So after an hour climb and a 2 minute sit, it's time to make the decent. After thinking I died about 7 times, I got my feet on the ground. Drug her about 100yds and went for the truck. Now I'm crazy tired, but really happy ha. I do know, I'll shorten my aider to 1 step, get a couple ropemans, and practice some on some gnarly trees, and I should be good for the next time haha
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