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how comfortable

My comfort level in the Kestrel went up tremendously after losing 40lbs and incorporating planks, push-ups, and sit-ups into my routine. I can sit all day in mine.

I generally take a week off of work every year during peak rut. For the past 3 years, I have shot a mature buck each year doing this. I save some good spots, and hunt dark to dark for as long as I can hold out. It is grueling by the 3rd or 4th day. I cannot do it in a saddle. I have to mix up my options in order to keep from burning out.

That being said, the only thing that touches a saddle comfort-wise is a summit stand. My saddle is hands down more comfortable than any other stand I have sat in.
 
I think a guidos web is just as comfortable as a climber. I am done with climbers, huge noise makers. But for me the Kestrel is fine for nearly every situation. If I want comfort a guidos web rocks.
 
I’ve only used two hang ons that were comfortable for more than a couple hours. One I still have is a millennium. The other was a strong built 40lb monster with a large sling seat that was super comfortable and dangerous to climb in to. The longest I’ve sat in my kestrel was about 5 hours. That’s about as long as I can sit in any stand. When hunting all day I will usually hunt more than one location even if I only move about a hundred yards. I ache after a while no matter the type of stand. I am more comfortable in my kestrel than anything made by lone wolf or xop. I need a backrest.
 
I sat 5 hours in my Kestrel the first time I climbed with it. I did have some hip pinch but I've since shortened my bridge and that seems to alleviate a lot of it. I can't remember the last time I've sat 5 hours in a tree stand.
I will be hunting out of both my kestrel and loc-ons this year, I have some spots (mostly food plots) that'll have stands on them and my kestrel will be for run and gun/public land stuff. I'm really excited
 
elk yinzer said:
I’m just saying I see saddles/slings vs. treestands as more of a spectrum than a binary distinction. I don't mean to be abrasive or put anyone on the defensive but I’ve invested a heck of a lot of time and money tweaking my setup and found that for most of my hunts where going ultralight isn’t a concern of mine, I like a bigger platform than most, to the point I am running what I consider a hybrid system. Essentially I just removed the seat from my treestand with my saddle replacing the seat. I have a smaller platform for my hunts way in deep but it’s less comfortable. I’ll still bust out my Summit Climber for all day hunts when I can. Check back in another 5 years and some of that may change, I don't know. I’m just choosing the tools I find do the job the best. Do whatever floats your boat but that’s what I’ve found I like and feel comfortable in. I spend a few hundred hours every year in the trees and I am glad to have found the time and means to tweak my system to perfection.
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I hunted that way for almost a decade. Best of both worlds. Solid system.

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