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Getting picked off

Chandler96 said:
TO me its basically the same thing as in a treestand except you have a tree to hide behind....been a little easier for me to stay hidden
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You always have a tree to hide behind...the difference is that with a stand that tree is "always" behind you, and with a saddle that tree is "usually" in front of you.

On one and you can more easily hide behind the tree while watching something come in. On the other hand, your natural blind side isn't covered. Feels like something that both "sides" tend to overplay.
 
mattsteg said:
You always have a tree to hide behind...the difference is that with a stand that tree is "always" behind you, and with a saddle that tree is "usually" in front of you.

On one and you can more easily hide behind the tree while watching something come in. On the other hand, your natural blind side isn't covered. Feels like something that both "sides" tend to overplay.
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I try and keyword is try to set up so that the likely-hood of a deer coming from my backside is minimal of course thats not always as easy as said lol
 
There is an indisputable advantage of a loc on is that one can wedge it in to a burly tree and still shoot out of it some times in ag country that’s the majority of trees available
 
rhagenw said:
There is an indisputable advantage of a loc on is that one can wedge it in to a burly tree and still shoot out of it some times in ag country that’s the majority of trees available
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I'm not really visualizing what you mean here.
 
Chandler96 said:
Im really interested in this. You seem to really like it. Anything you dont like?
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I have found it to be surprisingly durable unless you hunt where there's a lot of thorns. My pants got really tore up from thorns. That's my only complaint. I'd buy another set of I lost mine. Eders.com sells them cheaper than the ASAT website, but they may be sold out.
 
Saddle hunter for 17 seasons now.

1. No question I get picked off more often than I did with a hang-on. Usually by a doe that I didn’t see for one reason or another, and I made some small movement at the wrong moment. That’s on me.
2. Regardless of what Mr. Infalt says, I have significantly more degrees of shot possibility out of a saddle than I ever did from a hang-on. At least half the book bucks I’ve taken would have walked away without a scratch had I been hunting from a hang-on.

All in all, I’m a better hunter from a saddle. More comfortable for me, so I’m able to put in longer sits. And greater kill execution shot radius. These advantages, for me, outweigh the increased sight-bust risk.
 
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