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Tree preparation

essdub

essdub

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I spent today screWing in tree steps. I started out with seventy steps and I think I have four or five left.
Sure, I use my spurs a lot. And sometimes I use rope steps, climbing sticks, rope climbing, etc.
But if you have the steps and know which trees you're likely to hang in come fall, there's nothing easier or quieter than screw in steps that are already there.
For the last few years I've been setting up as many trees as I could every winter/spring so that I have all kinds of choices come deer seaSon.
I probably have twenty five or more trees in good locaTions set up with screw in steps now. That's on my property and a couple neighbors properties. Maybe forty five acres or so.
Of course they won't help if I go somewhere else to hunt, but I like options. Options are good.
Plus, it's a pretty good workout climbing and screWing in that many steps . Every little bit helps. Especially a fat boy like me
 
You're an animal Dub!! 65 steps in a day :shock: That's working!!!!
 
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huck72412 said:
You're an animal Dub!! 65 steps in a day :shock: That's working!!!!
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It was work! It sounds easy, but it really ain't. Oh, and I have exactly 12 steps left, so It was less than 60, but I'm telling you what. .. That's a lot of screwing. If I didn't have that Ameristep step installer, I couldn't have done It all in a morning.
It was only four trees too. And they were within three hundred yards of each other. I just went out for an hour to shoot my little 3d course and I was worn out before I started. Now I'm beat
 
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Erniepower said:
I have one of these http://www.treesteptool.com and really like it. It makes life easy easier

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Yeah. I've got these two things. But the big one doesn't make it into the pack white hunting. It's way easier pre season though. The muddy step sledge is good, but the magnet can be frustrating. It's light enough and effective enough to carry while hunting.
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Pre set trees are by far the easiest to hunt, and they are a huge advantage of a saddle. I have around 40 trees set up throughout the state with around 25 steps in each tree.

I have the same tree step tool as Ernie and it was a life changing purchase. I've probably had it for about 7 or 8 years now.
 
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