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For you soft saddle folks who won’t admit a hybrid is better…

Jammintree said:
How comfortable is a jx3 on really long walks? Can you sneak through dense brush and briars with it?
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How wide are you from shoulder to shoulder?

If wider than 20”, it’s no different than you walking through brush.

One vegetation type it excels in is stuff up to your knees/waist. Everything is above the waist, so nothing drags or snags.

I’m comfortable saying I’ve walked 500+ miles with mine. I don’t really set out to climb a tree when I hunt most days. I just walk. If I find good stuff and it needs to be climbed, I climb.

The hybrid has increased the number of times at the end of those long walks I was willing to climb, because it’s so comfortable.

But this is just a fun thread about padded diapers to wear under soft saddles(built with an entire network of international, specifically Chinese, influence and materials), not uncomfortable China made hybrids…
 
kyler1945 said:
But this is just a fun thread about padded diapers to wear under soft saddles(built with an entire network of international, specifically Chinese, influence and materials), not uncomfortable China made hybrids…
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So I gathered. Those were just some questions I’ve wondered about. I figured it didn’t matter where I posted them, you’d jump on answering anything Jx3, regardless of which thread.
 
It’s like Reebok Pumps crossed with hockey pants and biking diapers. I’m in!!
 
Beside the weight, packing, and other issues with the JX3.
The big one no one talks about is huntability. With a conventional tree stand you can stand, back tight to the tree and you are hard to pick. With a saddle and a platform you can do the same. With JX3 you are totally exposed if the deer approaches from the side.


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I used a padded saddle some this season and it was very comfortable.

For what it's worth, I also find the JX3 quite comfortable.
 
GeoFish said:
Beside the weight, packing, and other issues with the JX3.
The big one no one talks about is huntability. With a conventional tree stand you can stand, back tight to the tree and you are hard to pick. With a saddle and a platform you can do the same. With JX3 you are totally exposed if the deer approaches from the side.
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Well shoot, I didn’t realize the lack of huntability with the hybrid!


Since I’ve bought it, five seasons ago, I’ve hunted with it the majority of the time, and almost exclusively the last few seasons. Add on two years of a guidos web on quite of few hunts prior.

I’ve had hundreds of deer in bow range, and killed probably 25 or so. Some out of stand, some out of hybrid, some out of soft saddle, some off of the ground.

Maybe I’m just super lucky, but I can’t recall a single time getting picked off by a deer in the hybrid by sight.

Maybe it’s because I shoot the first legal deer I see on 75% of my hunts.

I’m witness to dozens others being killed out of the hybrid by several different styles and experience levels of hunters. Two were very large very mature bucks. In wide open woods. As were many others.

Have you had deer pick you off at a higher rate in the hybrid than other ways of sitting in a tree?
 
kyler1945 said:
Well shoot, I didn’t realize the lack of huntability with the hybrid!


Since I’ve bought it, five seasons ago, I’ve hunted with it the majority of the time, and almost exclusively the last few seasons. Add on two years of a guidos web on quite of few hunts prior.

I’ve had hundreds of deer in bow range, and killed probably 25 or so. Some out of stand, some out of hybrid, some out of soft saddle, some off of the ground.

Maybe I’m just super lucky, but I can’t recall a single time getting picked off by a deer in the hybrid by sight.

Maybe it’s because I shoot the first legal deer I see on 75% of my hunts.

I’m witness to dozens others being killed out of the hybrid by several different styles and experience levels of hunters. Two were very large very mature bucks. In wide open woods. As were many others.

Have you had deer pick you off at a higher rate in the hybrid than other ways of sitting in a tree?
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Let’s be clear; all across the country the deer act quite differently.

Also, isn’t it ok if we all have different preferences?
 
Jammintree said:
Let’s be clear; all across the country the deer act quite differently.

Also, isn’t it ok if we all have different preferences?
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Yeh, for sure!

I was just curious, because I’ve hunted whitetail in 7 different states with any type of cover and terrain you could want to hunt. And there’s no correlation between getting picked and the hybrid for me.

That wasn’t a preference that was stated. It was presented as a fact. Which might turn someone off to the hybrid.

Also, the point of this thread was to be a sort of joke about a sort of serious way to maybe make soft saddles more comfortable.

I wasn’t the one who turned it into a discussion on the hybrid’s ability to keep you hidden from deer!
 
Sorry, I was responding to the title of this post, I won't admit a hybrid is better for me.
Two large mature bucks in wide open woods?
 
GeoFish said:
Sorry, I was responding to the title of this post, I won't admit a hybrid is better for me.
Two large mature bucks in wide open woods?
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Yeah, I like my “traditional saddle.”
To each their own.
@kyler1945 - you’re clearly a JX3 evangelist and that’s cool. It’s just not for all of us, and isn’t that ok?!
 
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Jammintree said:
Yeah, I like my “traditional saddle.”
To each their own.
@kyler1945 - you’re clearly a JX3 evangelist and that’s cool. It’s just not for all us, and isn’t that ok?!
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I would share a campfire with any of you, regardless of what you sit in to hunt deer.

I guess I’m confused on how this specific thread is being perceived as me being an evangelist, when folks are clearly pointing out things that have nothing to do with the hybrid’s comfort vs a soft saddle, and I’m responding in kind. Nor do they have anything to do with the post, which was, again, a half joke about a half serious way to make a soft saddle more comfortable.

I am admittedly a cheerleader for JX3. I guess I just missed the part where that was relevant to this thread.
 
GeoFish said:
Beside the weight, packing, and other issues with the JX3.
The big one no one talks about is huntability. With a conventional tree stand you can stand, back tight to the tree and you are hard to pick. With a saddle and a platform you can do the same. With JX3 you are totally exposed if the deer approaches from the side.


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you are a pendulum with the JX3. On a leaner you flop to the low side and good luck getting back to the high side.
 
I think some are giving too much credit to the deer. Don’t move or skyline yourself. Do either of those and you’ll probably get picked regardless of the contraption in the tree.
 
GeoFish said:
Beside the weight, packing, and other issues with the JX3.
The big one no one talks about is huntability. With a conventional tree stand you can stand, back tight to the tree and you are hard to pick. With a saddle and a platform you can do the same. With JX3 you are totally exposed if the deer approaches from the side.


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It's funny the only "from the side" images you include are the JX3 pics.
 
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