Wearing the Lonestar TX5 in: Too Loud

[NewSETex]

I've had my TX5 Lonestar for a couple of seasons and love it. It's the only saddle I've owned, but I'm a bigger guy and it's very comfortable.

My issue is: I originally was attracted to the idea of wearing the saddle on my walk in, scouting etc so that I'm ready to climb. I've only done this a few times because walking with it on is just too loud for me. It makes a swishing and krinkling noise with every step and drives me crazy. I've ended up just packing it in and then putting it on at the tree. It's just kinda a pain fiddling with it and it takes up a lot of room in a small pack. It's also hard to put on totally silently with the buckles jiggling etc and would be nice to do at the truck.

I've looked at maybe switching to a mesh style saddle like the cruzr, or maybe something like the latitude method 2 where I can wear it up around my waist like a belt. Is there anything I can do to make my walk in quieter with the TX5? Something I can do with the material or a different way of wearing it? I do not have the removable leg straps. I'd hate to sell it and get something "quiet" and then all of a sudden deal with comfort issues.

 

[Bigterp]

It will wear in, if you’re talking about a cordura sound. Which model stretch or pleat?

 

[boyne bowhunter]

Now I'm not hunting from a TX5 so take my advice with a grain of salt, but when I'm walking in I tuck my bridge up under the waist belt and pull it tight. It takes all the slack out of the saddle and pulls it tight to my butt so its no worse than my pants as far as profile while walking.

 

[DelaWhere_Arrow]

Use your LB around your neck as suspenders to take additional slack/droop out of the system while you’re wearing it; put yak grips or stealth strips on buckles; use webbing retainers or molle clips or something to police your straps and/or ropes for the walk; find a small satchel that will clip to your backpack that only houses your saddle and ropes (AeroHunter used to give you a drawstring bag with your saddle, i could pack my kestrel and its accoutrements in it, quite handily lashed to my usual backpack for longer hikes); practice new ways to fold and pack your saddle, and you may find it’s much more packable than it would seem; swap larger ropes for 8mm and ditch any nonessential metal; just deal with it (not trynna be a jerk when I say that).
I don’t personally do half the things I recommended above and I wear my saddle the whole time I’m hunting. Yes my metals clang a bit and my ropes rub and make a little noise and the cordura may have at the beginning sounded like a bunch of squirrels running over my butt, but all that is really more annoying to me than it is perceptible to game. And none of it is audible while I’m hunting unless I do something noisy myself.
Metals can be silenced, fabrics quiet over time, and ropes are a nonissue. If it’s bugging you that much to wear it, pack it. If packing it is too annoying, wear it and practice managing it with some methods mentioned above, or those you come up with. And if you come up with new ideas, always share them here for the nerdiest of nerds to pick apart lol. New ideas are like drugs to us.

 

[NewSETex]

It will wear in, if you’re talking about a cordura sound. Which model stretch or pleat?

Pleat

 

[NewSETex]

It will wear in, if you’re talking about a cordura sound. Which model stretch or pleat?

Thanks, I haven't tried wearing it while walking again since those first couple of hunts so I'll try again and see if that helps. Makes sense.

 

[bongo]

I have a CRUZR XC but have owned 10 saddles and have had different issues with most.
I'll take my CRUZR and pull up around my chest while walking not so much for noise but more for comfort. Then while I'm prepping at the tree I'll adjust the saddle to climb and hang in.

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[Bigterp]

Pleat

It’s that new stiff cordura against itself. The fabric noise should lessen. Try not wearing the leg straps on the walk in….. just keep th buckled ( not around your leg & then fix it before you climb up)