dlist777
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SHEMS is a condition where you experience intense anxiety worrying that you don’t have the absolute right/best saddle hunting equipment (and will end out getting skunked the entire season). Some examples of SHEMS are the feeling you get when:
- You read a thread about how much better the distel / kleimheist /schwabisch hitches are and you stare down at that stupid prussik on all of your ropes.
- You happily open your package of predator rope and then read a thread titled “8mm OpLux: You’re an Idiot if You Don’t Use This!”. Then, you keep getting Tapatalk notifications for the thread for the next 3 weeks and can’t unsubscribe.
- You decide to switch to OpLux, but then realize you’ll have to swap out your ropeman1 for a ropeman 2 or Kong Duck.
- You do the rope mod on all your sticks, then read about amsteel daisy chain....then decide thats better...then read about daisy chain webbing.
- You keep checking your email for the hunting beast stick production run so you can spend $80 / stick.
- You post a video about how happy you are with your Kestrel Flex with ASAT cammo and someone asks why anyone would choose ASAT over Predator cammo.
- When you lay awake at night deciding if you should use a prussik tender or a mechanical ascender for your lineman’s belt…...then when you decide on the tender, you can’t decide between paying Dan O $2 for one or making your own….
- The next morning your wife asks you why you didn’t sleep so well…you just shake your head.
- Someone sees a picture you posted and tells you your ascender is hooked up wrong. You open the instructions and realize its not in English…it’s in some weird climbing language…and you’ve had the instructions upside down the whole time.
- You go hunting the first time and end out hopping from aider to aider climbing 50 feet on 2 sticks….you nearly have 7 heart attacks, but are happy with the weight savings….then you see on your phone that you only walked ¼ mile to your hunting spot.
