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2024 Gear thread

Gator said:
Saddle version of a very old piece of gear that I never thought was needed. I’m older and maybe wiser now so I’m wondering if it’s much like a tree umbrella and maybe not so stupid after all??? Work smarter not harder kind of concept.


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If you have deer in close there is nothing like it as far as having your bow at the near ready without having to hold the weight of it.
 
Gator said:
Saddle version of a very old piece of gear that I never thought was needed. I’m older and maybe wiser now so I’m wondering if it’s much like a tree umbrella and maybe not so stupid after all??? Work smarter not harder kind of concept.


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The only knock I'd have on it is that I never wear gloves in a tree and so I never just hold my bow if I don't hear or see a deer, except when it's warm and the hunting is not good here when that is true (but I still go). If I shot with a glove (maybe I need to try again with a medium to thin one), then I'd probably buy one.
 
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raisins said:
The only knock I'd have on it is that I never wear gloves in a tree and so I never just hold my bow if I don't hear or see a deer, except when it's warm and the hunting is good here when that is true (but I still go). If I shot with a glove (maybe I need to try again with a medium to thin one), then I'd probably buy one.
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I don't hold my bow either, it only comes off the hook when I see deer approaching. But I have had times when deer have come in and stayed for a long time and I'm stuck holding. It really shines then!
 
Gator said:
Saddle version of a very old piece of gear that I never thought was needed. I’m older and maybe wiser now so I’m wondering if it’s much like a tree umbrella and maybe not so stupid after all??? Work smarter not harder kind of concept.


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Old piece of gear like this? I've had this since the 90's and it wasn't effective enough for me to use then. Its been sitting in my misc. archery stuff tub for decades. Long enough in fact that the belt loop snaps are rusted shut.

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Just climbing on it or with a little bounce test of it?

Imagine that happening at 20'?
Thanks for the time invested doing the leg work for us.
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I was testing out the one pretty good. Noticed the unfinished area exposed so I emailed them about it and they asked me to try the other 2 so I strapped this one to the tree stepped on the lower step grabbed to tree to pull myself up and it let go. That was the first time this one was strapped to a tree.
 
Wow. ***.

Seems like the free return shipping was a means of cheaply recruiting some "crash test dummies" and no in the field testing of their own...
 
These companies are a joke. This crap is getting old.

Editing because I’m not done.

This shouldn’t happen if a 500lb man jumped on a step. These failures are design flaws from a product “we worked so hard on” or whatever these companies say.

Glad you’re okay man!

Serious question. Could these companies be design and building their stuff in the us, using us metals and building procedures. Then sending the final product to be made overseas and then never tested the actually final product?
 
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Bowtie747 said:
These companies are a joke. This crap is getting old.

Editing because I’m not done.

This shouldn’t happen if a 500lb man jumped on a step. These failures are design flaws from a product “we worked so hard on” or whatever these companies say.

Glad you’re okay man!

Serious question. Could these companies be design and building their stuff in the us, using us metals and building procedures. Then sending the final product to be made overseas and then never tested the actually final product?
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I find it interesting that the product website says the tree stand was "tested" to 700lbs, rated to 350lbs. It doesn't however include a testing specification or agency requirement or mention a 3rd party. Since they went 2x I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that it was done at least to the intent of the TMA/ASTM specifications.

However, under the description of the climbing rails there's no mention that I saw of testing or rated weight. Are we supposed to assume that they were tested to the same requirement? Seems somewhat doubtful to me that this type of catastrophic failure should occur on a single use of a product that was successfully tested per the TMA/ASTM standards for that kind of loading.

EDIT: I did scroll enough to see rated weight of 350# for the step. No mention of testing though.
 
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