Y’all really be anal about some little bitty noisies in the woods. I’m not trynna be a Sir Richard or nothin’, I love you all the same. but I own exactly zero stealth strips, and exactly zero hockey tape (even though I played hockey and still puck around with my kids once in a while), have never and will never wrap my platform in paracord, and though I may not be a true whitetail assassin I have killed and had opportunities at plenty of great deer to know that a little metal or plastic clank is scarcely the difference between getting a shot and getting the slip. Yes, it’s possible—and even frequently the case—that a “wrong noise” may get a deer’s attention in the wrong way. Yes I can point to those times in my own experience IF I REALLY think about it HARD…but I’d have no problem picking 3 or 4 times when I know I was noisy and metallic getting into the tree, or doing something while hanging in my saddle, and still within a half hour had deer in range. I can also point to 3 or 4 times immediately, maybe the same times, when I thought noise would get me but it was motion or scent and the noise didn’t bother a thing.
My personal opinion (disagree all you want and continue to waste your money on ugly camo tape and paracord that just holds onto human scent) is that the woods are inherently alive with ambient noise, some of which is probably unnatural by a deer’s standards, but they don’t be like “hmm metal, that must be a hunter in a climber” or “hmm that’s definitely a carbon fiber clack, not an antler” or “hmm that could have been a metal clank, but it was 30% less resonant so it couldn’t have been a Tethrd stick. Must be a that new Trophyline jawn, staying away from that tree today boys”. Nah. It just ain’t that way.
Now am I not saying you should go out in the woods and rattle your carabiner through your figure 8 nonstop, or to clap your sticks together as hard as you can when you get in/out of your tree. I’m not saying noise doesn’t matter and you can sound like a janitor’s hip walking through the woods. I am, however, “just sayin’” that I have seen (and killed) big deer within 30 yds of my tree and within an hour of (accidentally) making Ozzy Osbourne metal tracks getting into the tree.
SO as y’all watch me tear ass in my soapbox here, I guess my point is this…
TLDR: These sticks are hella quiet. but they do make a sound just like everything does. So Wrap them in all kinda BS if it makes you feel better but you can kill the same caliber of deer with stock metal components, if you’re not a total buffoon about it (and even sometimes if you are), as you can with stealth wraps and camo paint jobs and daisy duke paracord chains and amsteel tree necklaces. You are only as noisy as you let yourself be. Slow down a tick, smooth out your likely-complicated climb, and enjoy the extra time and money you DIDN’T spend on “silencing” your gear, while eating a deer loin from the buck who didn’t give a rat’s backside about the two clanks you made 30 minutes ago while setting the platform you killed him out of.
Case in point, this old boy read just that script:
View attachment 98632View attachment 98633oh, and not for nothin’ but it was a Trophyline platform what done the clangin’ and bangin’ that morning lol.