I talked to a thomas daly at all gear about his blue craze rope as well. Cant wait to put some more time on the cherry bomb rope. I did a 75 foot descent with my rope wrench and bee line prusik and its soo smooth. Feels very similar to my tachyon but it grabs my 8mm hitch cords better.
Depends on how much rope you plan on carrying with you and the hunting height that you're going to do most of your hunting from! If you carry 50 feet of rope and plan on hunting at 20 feet you can easily do a base anchor then ascend the rope! If you only plan on carrying 30 feet of rope then you'll have no choice but to use a canopy anchor with a piece of retrieval line attached! Are you going to use this rope for hunting only? I use alot of my ropes for recreational climbing and hunting, This year i'm using olive drab htp and i'd recommend that over the cherry bomb for hunting only purposes, It's more weather resistant,abrasion resistant and its a true static rope. Go to rwrope.com and look up 7/16 sterling htp!
I use the haas velox for recreational climbing but for hunting its overkill and a ton more money. Rads will suit you fine. The haas is for advanced climbers and wouldnt be very useful in a rads system if you could even use it at all. The grigri puts a bend in the rope unlike normal srt ascent devices which is why its good to use with a rads system or as a descent device.
The D4 has anti panic and lock modes, grigri2 does not. How much climbing experience do you have? Also is this going to be used for hunting only or hunting and recreational climbing?
Id get the grigri+ then, its much lighter and cheaper then the d4 but it has anti panic feature.
Should work just fine, You dont need a pulley it just makes it a tad easier.
