Carry method for climbing sticks.

[Bare_foot_traditional]

Brand new to saddle hunting. Just got my Mantis on Monday, getting my Hawk Heliums tomorrow. For now I'm using the factory straps on the sticks but getting the Tethrd daisy chain straps soon. I'm trying to figure out the best way to carry my sticks, normally I would strap them to my pack but my current pack is way to big to hunt from a tree with. ( Kifaru 44 mag.) Is there some sort of strap I can use ?

 

[lawrence]

i use a strap that lonewolf makes for attaching their climbing stands together. i did add a plastic shoulder piece from amazon.

 

[ArcherAdam]

I am still experimenting however I am pretty sure I will end up going with the tethered versa strap (have one already and using it as an aider too). I will be attaching my predator platform to the sticks with 2' kwik straps I poached from my alpha hang on. Holds everything really secure!

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[catman529]

I use a smaller backpack and sewed on buckle straps to keep the sticks on the pack.


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[Vulocity]

I use a smaller backpack and sewed on buckle straps to keep the sticks on the pack.


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What he said. If you can find a pack with side compression straps WITH buckles already (e.g., SOP G2 Day Pay, Horn Hunter G2, MR Pop Up series) that's less work on your end. Clip in the sticks on each side. Attach a loop of Amsteel or 550 at your hip belt on each side to help support the weight of the sticks and now you don't have to mess with sticks sliding off your shoulders or swinging every which way if you have to go through rough terrain.

 

[SwingingGator]

I use the standard lone wolf strap to hold my sticks together and then i just carry them by hand. I have my bow and platform strapped to my pack (Alps) so i can carry the sticks by hand instead of visa versa. I was thinking about adding a shoulder strap to them to make it a “hands free” walk in but i like using my sticks as spider web removal tools sometimes so i might not.


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[bj139]

Brand new to saddle hunting. Just got my Mantis on Monday, getting my Hawk Heliums tomorrow. For now I'm using the factory straps on the sticks but getting the Tethrd daisy chain straps soon. I'm trying to figure out the best way to carry my sticks, normally I would strap them to my pack but my current pack is way to big to hunt from a tree with. ( Kifaru 44 mag.) Is there some sort of strap I can use ?

I would practice climbing a bit if I were you. I have been practicing for 4 months. I can't imagine trying this for the first time while hunting. It would have been a disaster. I would have been lucky to escape uninjured.
The strap on the top stick on 3 Heliums can be cinched one time around the 3 sticks then fed through the nearest slot on the edge of the sticks. The end can then be brought near the lower end of the sticks, passed through a slot and a bowline tied for a nice shoulder strap. The suction cups hold them together as long as a strap is cinching them together.

 

[MathewsShooter7]

These limbsaver bow carriers work awesome if you are looking to go with full length sticks that don't go on a pack well. I have carried all kinds of other stuff with these also.

 

[DelaWhere_Arrow]

I would practice climbing a bit if I were you. I have been practicing for 4 months. I can't imagine trying this for the first time while hunting. It would have been a disaster. I would have been lucky to escape uninjured.
The strap on the top stick on 3 Heliums can be cinched one time around the 3 sticks then fed through the nearest slot on the edge of the sticks. The end can then be brought near the lower end of the sticks, passed through a slot and a bowline tied for a nice shoulder strap. The suction cups hold them together as long as a strap is cinching them together.

I climbed for the first time while hunting. It was an absolute mess. I’m lucky I didn’t die. The deer that were watching me come down that evening were just as shocked. I’m sure they were thinking, “you’re new to this, aren’t you?” They literally stood at 80 yards and watched me like an episode of Keeping Up With The Fatassians.

 

[bj139]

I climbed for the first time while hunting. It was an absolute mess. I’m lucky I didn’t die. The deer that were watching me come down that evening were just as shocked. I’m sure they were thinking, “you’re new to this, aren’t you?” They literally stood at 80 yards and watched me like an episode of Keeping Up With The Fatassians.

It's amazing how the animals just stand and watch when you are not paying attention to them. If you see them then they disappear like vapor in the wind.

 

[Spence71]

So went up and down a few dozen times...full gear. But...first hunt last weekend. I had a new gear strap off amazon that was like $10. Think about that for a sec. okay. Up the tree. Bow at 9. Quiver at 1ish. Pack at 3. Pack was too much for the plastic hook. And I was worried that it was gonna fall. So lifted the pack and head something.

Dammit. Where’s my bow. Oh there it is. 17’ below me.

So add one more up and down to fetch the bow.

But to the OP. My sticks are on the back of my G3 tree hunter


Now then, get your equipment--your quiver and bow--and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
Genesis 27:3

 

[Bare_foot_traditional]

I climbed for the first time while hunting. It was an absolute mess. I’m lucky I didn’t die. The deer that were watching me come down that evening were just as shocked. I’m sure they were thinking, “you’re new to this, aren’t you?” They literally stood at 80 yards and watched me like an episode of Keeping Up With The Fatassians.

I would practice climbing a bit if I were you. I have been practicing for 4 months. I can't imagine trying this for the first time while hunting. It would have been a disaster. I would have been lucky to escape uninjured.
The strap on the top stick on 3 Heliums can be cinched one time around the 3 sticks then fed through the nearest slot on the edge of the sticks. The end can then be brought near the lower end of the sticks, passed through a slot and a bowline tied for a nice shoulder strap. The suction cups hold them together as long as a strap is cinching them together.

Trust me I played with it before I hunted with it. Second or 3rd time around getting things situated and now I've hunted out of it 5 times and feeling 100 % confident. I'm a carpenter and am constantly doing crazy, acrobatics that I probably shouldn't be doing and definitely not OSHA approved. Haha. It already feels like I've been doing it for years. Certainly not new to mobile hunting just saddle hunting.