I know there is a huge cam cleat thread and I have read all of the posts. I did not see this asked and I did not want it to get lost in the fray on that thread. Let me start this with, I have drilled and tapper hundreds if not thousands of times. My question is, does it make sense to drill and tap the hole for my cam cleat or am I over thinking it? Should I just use a suitable bolt, lock washer and nylon nut? Thanks guys.
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Cam cleat on Hawk Helium
- Thread starter Loopwing
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This . . .
The center of the helium is hollow so there would only be like three threads total.
what they said!
Have you considered Amsteel daisy chains instead. Nothing to drill or tap and almost as fast attaching to the tree.
I have, I am not worried about drilling and would not mess with the versa button hole, so I can always go back to the button/Daisy chain later. I am planning on one sticking and liked the idea of the cam and rope.
Buried in here is a buckle mod I did to a Helium. I used it a bit and it worked great. I found SRT around that time and never went back to sticks.
My One Stick Helium Stick Mods
Do not attempt this at home. For information only. Platform I made a platform from an aluminum fence post insert which is used to strengthen vinyl fence posts for lock attachment and such. My platorm is 12 inches long. It seems to work fine. I still need a platform for when I climb SRT...
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What I like about SRT is if I lose my footing I don't slip down the tree and become impaled on a stick. That would ruin my whole day.
That would definitely suck. I have a hand ascender. I just figured I didn't want the SRT method to be my only method. I have a lot of tulip poplar trees where I hunt and the first branches are 40 feet off the ground. I used to use those all the time with my climber. This is a completely different way of hunting to me, I have to change my outlook all the way down to the trees I can hunt (the whole reason I got into saddle hunting anyways).
Another crazy thing I've done that worked surprisingly well. Very inexpensive as well. You can see the pole on my back in my avatar
Electrical Rope Pusher Pole Success
I used my 10 foot electrical conduit rope pusher to push the rope up a tree. It worked. I shot a doe. Now I can try for the buck. My tether was set at 17 feet which seems kind of low but the leaf canopy was around there so I could not see as far if I went higher. It was so thick in there at...
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I tried to hang from a tether and push my rope higher but I was a bit uneasy hanging on the side of the tree trying to do this. Once I realized my head would be in the leaf canopy and my vision would be obscured, I gave up on this idea. Standing on a platform would make it easier but the vision problem would be bad for hunting. If I was higher I don't think I would have shot the deer. With one placement of the rope the deer did not know I was there. I was in the thickest cover in the area with plenty of thorn bushes.
I only climb as high as I have to. One place I have constantly killed deer I was only 12 feet in a tulip poplar. The canopy started about 14 feet and was thick. 12 feet up I could see 200 yards every direction and I was hunting with my 30.06. 14 ft high and I had a 50ft, not 50 yards, dome I could see and shoot in.