Hello from South Central Missouri

[woods89]

Just joined this morning. I am 25 years old and happily married with a little 13 mo. old daughter. I hunt 100% public and switched to an all mobile set up last year. This summer I bought an Aero Hunter Evolution and have been having a blast figuring it out this season. I use 3 cheap climbing sticks to get up the tree and 3 cranford's on a rachet for a platform. This works pretty good ( better than the stand I used last year!) but I'm hoping someone comes out with a platform option designed for mobile saddle hunters. I'm also hoping to get some lone wolf sticks for next season. I've been lurking here for a little while and like what I see. Happy hunting!
Hayward

 

[redsquirrel]

Awesome!

Welcome to the site Hayward!

 

[ncsaddlebowhunter]

Yes, Haywood, a mobile saddle hunting platform would be super cool. Good to see you on the site and out there saddle hunting! Cheers, Kirk

 

[Boudreaux]

Welcome!
What part of south central missouri?

I was grew up around Rolla

Thanks,
Boswell

 

[woods89]

I'm from Mountain Grove so I'm about an hour and 15 min southwest of Rolla. I hunt south of town aways on some big blocks of government land.
On a side note I killed my second deer out of my Aero Hunter Evolution this morning. No pics but he's a small 9 pt that was following a doe and gave me about a 60 yd shot with my 260. He died in the bottom of a ravine 1/2 mile and 200' elevation drop from my truck. I've been doing the gutless method this year so I had to take a 60 lb pack up and out. Somehow when you get a buck down on pressured public land that pack doesn't seem so bad tho! Lol
I cannot begin to describe how much I like my evolution. It would feel really weird to be stuck in a hang on again!

 

[redsquirrel]

Congrats! and welcome to the obsession!